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TUM INSTITUT F ¨ UR INFORMATIK Towards a Formalization of the Unified Modeling Language Ruth Breu, Ursula Hinkel, Christoph Hofmann, Cornel Klein, Barbara Paech, Bernhard Rumpe, Veronika Thurner TUM-I9726 Mai 97 TECHNISCHE UNIVERSIT ¨ ATM ¨ UNCHEN [BHH+97b] R. Breu, U. Hinkel, C. Hofmann, C. Klein, B. Paech, B. Rumpe, V. Thurner. Towards a Formalization of the Unified Modeling Language. Technical Report TUM-I9726, TU Munich, 1997. www.se-rwth.de/publications
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T U MI N S T I T U T F U R I N F O R M A T I K

Towards a Formalization of theUnified Modeling Language

Ruth Breu, Ursula Hinkel, Christoph Hofmann, Cornel Klein,Barbara Paech, Bernhard Rumpe, Veronika Thurner

TUM-I9726Mai 97

T E C H N I S C H E U N I V E R S I T A T M U N C H E N

[BHH+97b] R. Breu, U. Hinkel, C. Hofmann, C. Klein, B. Paech, B. Rumpe, V. Thurner. Towards a Formalization of the Unified Modeling Language. Technical Report TUM-I9726, TU Munich, 1997. www.se-rwth.de/publications

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