Evolutionary layout of UML class diagrams

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Evolutionary layout of UML class diagrams

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Software Visualization archive
Proceedings of the 2006 ACM symposium on Software visualization table of contents

Brighton, United Kingdom

POSTER SESSION: Poster abstracts table of contents

Pages: 163 - 164

Year of Publication: 2006

ISBN:1-59593-464-2

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J. Wolff v. Gudenberg	Würzburg University Informatik, Würzburg
A. Niederle	Würzburg University Informatik, Würzburg
M. Ebner	Würzburg University Informatik, Würzburg
H. Eichelberger	Hildesheim University, Hildesheim

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SIGGRAPH: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques
SIGSOFT: ACM Special Interest Group on Software Engineering
SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction
SIGPLAN: ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

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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