UML is posited as the "swiss army knife" for systems modelling and design activities. It embodies a number of modelling formalisms that have broad applicability in captu...
Nick Russell, Wil M. P. van der Aalst, Arthur H. M...
— In this paper we present a new approach to workflow analysis. There are efforts to design and verify workflow models using both Activity diagrams and Petri nets. We model the w...
Hemant Kr. Meena, Indradeep Saha, Koushik Kr. Mond...
Abstract. The token flow semantics of UML 2 activity diagrams is formally defined using Abstract State Machines. Interruptible activity regions and multiplicity bounds for pins are...
Activity diagrams are a well-known means to model the control flow of system behavior. Their expressiveness can be enhanced by using their object flow notation. In addition, we ref...
Stefan Jurack, Leen Lambers, Katharina Mehner, Gab...
We present in this paper a new approach for the automatic verification and performance analysis of SysML activity diagrams. Since timeliness is important in the design and analysi...
Yosr Jarraya, Andrei Soeanu, Mourad Debbabi, Fawzi...
Use cases are commonly used to structure and document requirements while UML activity diagrams are often used to visualize and formalize use cases, for example to support automated...
Over the last decade, the relevance of performance evaluation in the early stages of the software development life-cycle has been steadily rising. We honestly believe that the int...
The behavior of an agent is defined through the specification of plans and actions. Agents have a set of plans that are selected to be executed according to their goals (and other...
Viviane Torres da Silva, Ricardo Choren, Carlos Jo...
In the general area of high-performance computing, object-oriented methods have gone largely unnoticed. In contrast, the Computational Neighborhood (CN), a framework for parallel ...