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+FRaMED
+======
+
+FRaMED-2 is the reimplementation of the  Full-fledged Role Modeling EDitor allowing the graphical specification of Role-based Software Systems
+by means of *compartments* (aka. *contexts*), *objects*, *roles*, and *relationships*.
+Additionally, it supports a varity of constraints upon roles and relationships. 
+
+See the [wiki](https://github.com/Eden-06/FRaMED-2/wiki) for further information.
+
+![Graphical user interface of FRaMED](https://github.com/leondart/FRaMED/wiki/img/ORMEditor_1.png)