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Evolutionary layout of UML class diagrams

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J. Wolff v. Gudenberg,

A. Niederle,

M. Ebner,

H. EichelbergerAuthors Info & Claims

SoftVis '06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Software visualization

Pages 163 - 164

https://doi.org/10.1145/1148493.1148525

Published: 04 September 2006 Publication History

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An evolutionary algorithm that layouts UML class diagrams is developed and described. It evolves the layout by mutating the positions of class symbols, inheritance relations, and associations. The process is controled by a fitness function that is computed from several well-known and some new layout metrics.

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Eichelberger, H. 2005. Aesthetics and Automatic Layout of UML Class Diagrams Ph.D. Thesis Fakultät für Mathematik und Informatik, University of Würzburg

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Evolutionary layout of UML class diagrams
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Software development techniques
      1. Object oriented development
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Object oriented frameworks
    2. General programming languages
      1. Language features
      2. Language types
2. Theory of computation
  1. Semantics and reasoning
    1. Program constructs
      1. Object oriented constructs

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SoftVis '06: Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Software visualization

September 2006

199 pages

ISBN:1595934642

DOI:10.1145/1148493

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The University of Georgia
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Oregon State University
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University Trier, Germany

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