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APCCM
2006
14 years 25 days ago
On the suitability of UML 2.0 activity diagrams for business process modelling
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...
ECLIPSE
2005
ACM
14 years 1 months ago
An approach to workflow modeling and analysis
— 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...
ERSHOV
2006
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
An ASM Semantics of Token Flow in UML 2 Activity Diagrams
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...
Stefan Sarstedt, Walter Guttmann
FASE
2009
Springer
14 years 3 months ago
Object Flow Definition for Refined Activity Diagrams
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...
ECBS
2007
IEEE
145views Hardware» more  ECBS 2007»
14 years 3 months ago
Automatic Verification and Performance Analysis of Time-Constrained SysML Activity Diagrams
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...
ECMDAFA
2010
Springer
207views Hardware» more  ECMDAFA 2010»
14 years 4 months ago
An Automated Approach to Transform Use Cases into Activity Diagrams
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...
Tao Yue, Lionel C. Briand, Yvan Labiche
WOSP
2004
ACM
14 years 4 months ago
From UML activity diagrams to Stochastic Petri nets: application to software performance engineering
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...
Juan Pablo López-Grao, José Mersegue...
ATAL
2005
Springer
14 years 5 months ago
Using the UML 2.0 activity diagram to model agent plans and actions
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...
IPPS
2007
IEEE
14 years 5 months ago
A Model-Driven Approach to Job/Task Composition in Cluster Computing
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 ...
Neeraj Mehta, Yogesh Kanitkar, Konstantin Läu...