Vehicle Insurance Policy System through UML

Abstract

Unified Modeling Language known as UML is widely accepted around the globe as an object oriented modeling language which is used to construct the software designs. It is independent to the object-oriented programming languages and designed UML models can be easily implemented by any object-oriented programming language. In the present paper, UML model is proposed for the Vehicle Insurance Policy System (VIPS). A real case study of BAJAJ Company of India is considered and proposed model is applicable for all the types of the vehicles available in the world. UML class, sequence and activity diagrams are designed and the model has also been validated by performing several queries on the designed sample database. Unified Modeling Language (UML) is a well known recognized, powerful and leading diagrammatic modeling language which is used to model the software research problems. It is a very popular for analysis of the research problems and easily compatible to the object oriented programming language. Nowadays, UML becomes a standard modeling language for the Software Industries which is used by the various software designers. Modeling plays an important role for any system and contributes the understanding of the source inputs and outputs but from the literature it is observed that UML is not much used for the object-oriented databases. Let us first describe some of the important references related to the UML. Booch et al. (1-3) described the important diagrams of the UML which are widely used for the development of the software designs. After the development of the UML, Agrawal et al. (4) first time applied UML for the multidimensional large database and used the concept of UML aggregation. With the help of UML they described the theoretical approach of the data cubes. In 1998, Paulo and Norman (5) designed a User Interface (UI) through UML. The strength and weaknesses of the UI are also explained in the paper. OMG is an active group released various versions of UML and these are listed in (6-8). Lopez-Sanz et al. (9) explained modeling of various service-oriented architectures with UML. They study the architectural properties of the SOA paradigm and on the basis of this; developed the MDA approach for abstraction. Saxena et al. (10-12) has also applied the UML in the field of computer architecture, dataware housing; proposed a protocol for mutual exclusion for the distributed operating