Over the years, a number of approaches have been proposed on the description of systems
and software in terms of multiple views represented by models. This modelling branch, so …

Information System (IS) development has been beset by consistency problems since its
infancy. These problems are greater still in UML software development, and are principally …

We provide an extensive overview of existing research in the field of software refactoring.
This research is compared and discussed based on a number of different criteria: the …

Blended modeling aims to improve the user experience of modeling activities by prioritizing
the seamless interaction with models through multiple notations over the consistency of the …

The ability to evolve software rapidly and reliably is a major challenge for software
engineering. In this introductory chapter we start with a historic overview of the research …

This chapter introduces the basics of neural-symbolic systems used thoughout the book. A
brief bibliographical review is also presented. Neural-symbolic systems have become a very …

The main drawback of existing software artifact management systems is the lack of
automatic or semi-automatic traceability link generation and maintenance. We have …

Objective The goal of this study is to identify gaps and challenges related to cross-domain
model management focusing on consistency checking. Method We conducted a systematic …

Nowadays, large-scale industrial software systems may involve hundreds of developers
working on hundreds of different but related models representing parts of the same system …

Abstract Unified Modeling Language (UML) has become the de-facto standard to design
today's large-size object-oriented systems. However, focusing on multiple UML diagrams is …