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Modeling Unified Language Templates for Designing Information Systems

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Abstract—The most popular tools for developing object-oriented information systems are CASE-tools. More often, they do not support n-ary association relationships between classes. It is shown how, when describing a domain model, one can go from n-ary associations to binary ones, how to reduce the number of information system objects, and how to take into account the restrictions placed on objects. Situations that allow this kind of transformation are presented in the form of design patterns.

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  1. Unified Modeling Language: a unified modeling language that uses several types of diagrams for the specification, design, and documentation of software systems.

  2. CASE-tools (Computer Aided Software Engineering): a software tool that automates the process of developing software for an information system.

  3. n-ary (n > 2) the association relationship is a relationship in which n objects of classes included in the association participate.

  4. Object Constraint Language: the object language of restrictions. It serves to determine the restrictions imposed on objects that cannot be described on UML.

  5. A tuple is an ordered sequence of elements, in this case objects.

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Sergievsky, M.V. Modeling Unified Language Templates for Designing Information Systems. Autom. Doc. Math. Linguist. 54, 26–35 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3103/S0005105520010033

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