This paper evaluates use case diagram notation's cognitive effectiveness and provides empirically validated improvements to enhance its visual perception and cognitive effectiveness for readers.

Evaluating and empirically improving the visual syntax of use case diagrams

Including a use case diagram with use cases significantly improves understanding for novice users by providing visual cues aiding in selecting and integrating relevant information.

Use Case Diagrams in Support of Use Case Modeling: Deriving Understanding from the Picture

This paper introduces a technique for simplifying requirements capture by derived use case diagrams from existing business process models, resulting in faster production of software systems supporting business processes.

Deriving use case diagrams from business process models

The use case diagram is a useful tool for describing the functionality of a system without addressing details like data structures, algorithms, or interaction diagrams.

The Use Case Diagram

Using misuse cases in use case diagrams can help elicit security requirements, focusing on both actions the system should prevent and support, in e- and m-commerce applications.

Eliciting security requirements with misuse cases

The methodological assistant, implemented in Python, helps design use case diagrams by relying on formalized rules and reuse of previous diagrams, improving software and systems modeling.

A Methodological Assistant for Use Case Diagrams

This paper proposes a structure and process for detecting and eliminating potential defects in use case models, while maintaining readability and retaining natural language, while allowing machine readable models and diagrams.

Producing robust use case diagrams via reverse engineering of use case descriptions

Sequence diagrams can effectively describe use-case relationships in behavior modeling, aiding in the identification and definition of use-case relationships in software development.

Describing Use-Case Relationships with Sequence Diagrams

Use case and class diagrams complement each other in requirements analysis, as they depict different aspects of the problem domain and have minimal overlap in information captured.

Are use case and class diagrams complementary in requirements analysis? An experimental study on use case and class diagrams in UML

Our automated approach using natural language processing methods significantly improves efficiency and accuracy in creating use case diagrams for software engineering.

Natural Language Processing based Automatic Making of Use Case Diagram

Using use cases to validate class diagrams from textual requirements leads to more complete class diagrams, but the technique's effectiveness depends on the developer category and tool used.

Investigating the Role of Use Cases in the Construction of Class Diagrams

This paper proposes a formal model of use cases and two methods for formal analysis and verification, based on states' exploration and symbolic reasoning using temporal logic.

Formal Analysis of Use Case Diagrams

This paper presents a semantic differencing operator for use case diagrams, enabling clear distinction between their meanings and improving software engineering efficiency.

Semantic Differencing of Use Case Diagrams

This paper proposes an automatic approach to compare use-case diagram variants and detect commonality and variability using formal concept analysis and latent semantic indexing.

Detecting commonality and variability in use-case diagram variants

UCCheck, a methodological assistant for UML and SysML use case diagrams, helps designers rely on formalized rules and reuse of previous diagrams to create and review their diagrams.

A Methodological Assistant for UML and SysML Use Case Diagrams

This paper presents an enhanced use case diagram that fully models Context Aware Systems, incorporating dynamic parameters like time and location, to better represent their behavior and user interactions.

An enhanced use case diagram to model Context Aware Systems

This semi-automatic approach can easily translate use cases to sequence diagrams for software design, allowing for user instructions and mechanically producing message sends from other parts of the description.

Translating use cases to sequence diagrams

This paper presents a method using Formal Concept Analysis and Relational Concept Analysis to improve clarity in UML use case diagrams while respecting the original diagram's semantics.

Fixing Generalization Defects in UML Use Case Diagrams

This paper presents a reverse engineering method to enhance program comprehension for users by abstracting use case diagrams from source code, using static analysis and clipping nodes to control program complexity.

Study on program comprehension method based on use case diagram

Our automated approach effectively generates high-quality activity diagrams from use cases, outperforming existing academic and commercial tools.

An Automated Approach to Transform Use Cases into Activity Diagrams

These studies suggest that use case diagrams improve understanding, simplify requirements capture, and aid in security requirements elicitation, while tools and techniques enhance their creation and accuracy.