Although researchers noted the importance of effective communication among stakeholders, it continues to be a challenge for requirements engineering. Communication can be considered as a management tool since communication allows organisation’s personnel to produce a cohesive enterprise view. In this…

Data base management evolved during the sixties and seventies. The evolution period was protracted. Many driving forces impacted the evolution and it is the aim of this paper to analyze these driving forces (some technical and some political) and to…

Today software solutions are often modeled using UML. Design patterns are frequently instantiated within these particular solutions. However, in several situations, UML is not expressive enough to describe them properly.
UML profiles extend UML syntax and semantic in order to…