Definición de un Esquema Preconceptual para la Obtención

TESIS DOCTORAL
DOCTORADO EN INGENIERÍA
Carlos Mario Zapata J.
DEFINICIÓN DE UN ESQUEMA PRECONCEPTUAL
PARA LA OBTENCIÓN AUTOMÁTICA DE
ESQUEMAS CONCEPTUALES DE UML
The main contributions of this work are summarized as follows:
• The specification of UN-Lencep, a new controlled language applicable to any domain.
UN-Lencep is suitable for automatically obtaining of the so-called Pre-conceptual
Schemas.
• The definition of Pre-conceptual Schemas syntax and the set of rules for generating Preconceptual
Schemas from UN-Lencep.
• The proposal of a set of heuristic rules for generating Class, Communication, and State
Machine diagrams from Pre-conceptual Schemas.
• The implementation of the above defined elements in a new kind of CASE tools for
interpreting a UN-Lencep discourse and automatically generating the mentioned UML
diagrams. UNC-Diagrammer, the prototype of such CASE tools, is also a contribution
of this Thesis.
We make these contributions in order to:
• Reduce the time period dedicated to UML diagrams making.
• Improve the quality of UML diagrams generated from one UN-Lencep discourse.
• Create a set of artifacts for improving the analyst-stakeholder communication. For
achieving this goal, we pretend to diminish the gap between technical and natural
language. Better communication facilitates validation of the modeling elements, which
represent the information solution of a problem.
• Improve the quality of the models. Better quality is related to the minimization of errors
in correction (the adequate use of syntax), consistency (the proper representation of the
same element in different diagrams), and completeness (the use, in the diagrams, of
enough elements from the UN-Lencep discourse).
The results of this Thesis can generate the following future work:
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