Deriving workflow enactment rules from UML activity diagrams: a case study

Author

De Lucia, Andrea ; Francese, Rita ; Tortora, Genoveffa

Author_Institution

Dipt. di Ingegneria, Universita del Sannio, Benevento, Italy

fYear

2003

fDate

28-31 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

211

Lastpage

218

Abstract

In the last years, there has been a growing interest in enhancing the semantics of UML diagrams to automatically derive executable process models. We present a case study of mapping UML activity diagrams with object flow onto the process modeling language of a distributed process support system called GENESIS. UML activity diagrams do not support all the GENESIS control flow and dataflow rules. As a consequence, the syntax and semantics of this type of UML diagrams need to be enriched to make them suitable for process modeling in GENESIS.

Keywords

Unified Modeling Language; diagrams; distributed processing; formal specification; object-oriented programming; programming language semantics; GENESIS; UML activity diagram semantics; control flow; dataflow rule; distributed process support system; object flow; process modeling language; workflow enactment rules; Computer aided software engineering; Databases; Humans; Management information systems; Object oriented modeling; Page description languages; Project management; Software engineering; Unified modeling language; Workflow management software;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8225-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HCC.2003.1260231

Filename

1260231