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We first argue that in some software development areas the need emerges of modelling structural and behavioural aspects of a community of objects cooperating to achieve a specific purpose, say a cooperation, for short. The notion of cooperation is formalized, with a first citizenship status, in the UML 2, as a collaboration. There are however some unclear and problematic spots both on some syntactic and semantic aspects of the UML collaboration. The main goal of this paper is to present first a much simplified metamodel for defining a collaboration, still producing the same notation, with an associated semantics. Rather surprisingly different useful semantic interpretations may be given and are discussed.
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Astesiano, E., Reggio, G. (2010). Revising the UML Collaborations: A Well-Founded Approach. In: Choppy, C., Sokolsky, O. (eds) Foundations of Computer Software. Future Trends and Techniques for Development. Monterey Workshop 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6028. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12566-9_1
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