Proposal of a supporting method for diagram generation with the transformation rules in UML

Various object-oriented methodologies have been advocated in recent years. Unified Modeling Language (UML) for such notation is becoming increasingly popular. This paper proposes a supporting method for diagram generation with transformation rules in UML to draw diagrams which eliminated contradiction in a short time by using common elements which other diagrams have. The validity of the proposed method is confirmed by implementing a diagram transformation editor and verifying part of the rules on the editor. The rules are extracted and used without any extension or semantics. Consequently, diagrams without contradiction can be generated in a short time. Transformation of diagrams which show the same character as the sequence diagram and collaboration diagram expressing the interaction of an object has generated a near-complete diagram.