José Ambrosio Toval Álvarez

Integration and Transformation of UML Models

This workshop aimed to understand more fully the relationship between different UML models. Each model in UML represents a particular viewpoint of the system under development. However, it is not clear from the UML specification how these models should be related. The relationships between UML models can be understood in terms of transformation - in which models are translated into other models (e.g., sequence diagrams transformed into statecharts) - or integration - in which models are somehow linked to contribute additional meaning (e.g., a statechart is attached to a class to describe the behavior of that class). Our target is to have an increased understanding of the possible transformation/integration approaches and how they can best be used in particular contexts.

A DYNAMO application of microcomputer-based simulation in health sciences teaching

Abstract This paper presents a concrete application of microcomputer-based simulation in health sciences education. It shows a pharmacological system dynamics model representing graphics and numerical behaviour and relations between variables, which in addition allows interaction with students for experimentation. The work also illustrates a strategy for introducing this kind of model in the classroom as well as the suitability of their implementation, in educational environments, using professional tools such as DYNAMO and DYNEX. Subsequent evaluation of the results and comments given by the students revealed more positive attitudes towards the discipline.