What Is in a Model?
Semantics and presentation. Models have two major aspects: semantic information (semantics) and visual presentation (notation).
The semantic aspect captures the meaning of an application as a network of logical constructs, such as classes, associations, states, use cases, and messages. Semantic model elements carry the meaning of the model—that is, they convey the semantics. The semantic modeling elements are used for code generation, validity checking, complexity metrics, and so on. The visual appearance is irrelevant to most tools that process models. The semantic information is often called the model. A semantic model has a syntactic structure, well-formedness rules, and execution dynamics. These aspects are often described ...
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