Computer, volume 37, issue 10, pages 64-72

Meaningful modeling: what's the semantics of "semantics"?

D. Harel ¹

B. Rumpe ²

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Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel |

Technische Universitäat Braunschweig, Germany |

Publication type: Journal Article

Publication date: 2004-10-01

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

Journal: Computer

scimago Q1

SJR: 0.803

CiteScore: 3.9

Impact factor: 2

ISSN: 00189162, 15580814

DOI: 10.1109/mc.2004.172

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General Computer Science

Abstract

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a complex collection of mostly diagrammatic notations for software modeling, and its standardization has prompted an animated discussion about UML's semantics and how to represent it. We have thus set out to clarify some of the notions involved in defining modeling languages, with an eye toward the particular difficulties arising in defining UML. We are primarily interested in distinguishing a language's notation, or syntax, from its meaning, or semantics, as well as recognizing the differences between variants of syntax and semantics in their nature, purpose, style, and use.

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