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The Unified Modelling Language (UML) is a well-known family of notations for software modelling. Recently, a new version of UML has been released. In this paper we examine the Activity Diagrams notation of this latest version of UML in terms of a collection of patterns developed for assessing control-flow capabilities of languages used in the area of process-aware information systems. The purpose of this analysis is to assess relative strengths and weaknesses of control-flow specification in Activity Diagrams and to identify ways of addressing potential deficiencies. In addition, the pattern-based analysis will yield typical solutions to practical process modelling problems and expose some of the ambiguities in the current UML 2.0 specification [9].
This work is funded in part by Interop NoE, IST-508011, and by the Australian Research Council under the Discovery Grant ”Expressiveness Comparison and Interchange Facilitation Between Business Process Execution Languages”.
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Wohed, P., van der Aalst, W.M.P., Dumas, M., ter Hofstede, A.H.M., Russell, N. (2005). Pattern-Based Analysis of the Control-Flow Perspective of UML Activity Diagrams. In: Delcambre, L., Kop, C., Mayr, H.C., Mylopoulos, J., Pastor, O. (eds) Conceptual Modeling – ER 2005. ER 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3716. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11568322_5
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