Modeling the World with Four
Colors: UML class model patterns
By Norman Daoust of Daoust Associates - www.DaoustAssociates.com
Information Modeling and System Integration:
Consulting and Training
IEEE
Consultants Network Meeting -- Wednesday,
6:30 PM, February 24, 2010
At Foley-Hoag, 1000
Winter Street,
This presentation
describes patterns for creating domain models
using four colors to stereotype the UML classes into five categories. This
speeds up the analysis modeling process, produces models that are easy to
review and critique. The use of color adds to the information content of the
model and provides an excellent mechanism for visual discrimination of the
concepts.
The presentation
begins with a brief description of the five stereotype classes, followed by an
example, tips for identifying each of classes, and concludes with a stereotyped
way the stereotype entities fit together.
Attendees will learn
the four colors and how to apply them. They will leave with a different way of
thinking about the world.
To make the concepts
concrete, one of the included example models is of the February
24, 2010, IEEE C-Net meeting itself!
Prior to founding Daoust Associates, Norman
was the modeling, standards, and Health Level Seven expert at Partners
HealthCare Systems and the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston. He has also
worked as a software developer for a national healthcare vendor (Siemens), a
national consulting firm (Bradford National Corporation), and the state of
Norman holds two crucial positions in Health
Level Seven (HL7), the international healthcare standards organization:
Secretary of the Technical Steering Committee, and Modeling and Methodology
Facilitator for the Patient Administration Committee. He has been an active
contributor to the Health Level Seven Reference Information Model, a
comprehensive healthcare data model, since its inception. In recognition of his
contributions to that organization, he was bestowed their W. Ed Hammond,
Ph.D., Volunteer of the Year award.
Norman also serves as the President of the Greater
Boston Chapter of the Independent Computer Consultants Association (ICCA) and a
member of the Board of Directors of the Boston Chapter of the Data Management
Association International (DAMA).
For some reason he thrives on projects and
tasks that most other people avoid!
Norman Daoust of Daoust Associates
Information Modeling and System Integration:
Consulting and Training
(617) 491-7424 (phone)
NormanD@DaoustAssociates.com
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