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UML

The Unified Modeling Language (UML89), created in the mid-1990s, is an industry standard that defines a set of modeling languages for making various kinds of models and diagrams in support of object-oriented problem analysis and software design. Its core languages are Class Diagrams for information/data modeling, and Sequence Diagrams, Activity Diagrams and State Diagrams (or State Charts) for process/behavior modeling.

UML class diagrams provide a visual syntax for expressing UML class models, which allow defining information and data models. They can be used both at the more abstract level of conceptual modeling for requirements engineering and at the more detailed level of design modeling for designing the model ...