2016/04/08 by Zamira Daw, Daw, Zamira, Rance Cleaveland +1
Business, Management and Accounting · Computer Science · #Advanced Software Engineering Methodologies #Business Process Modeling and Analysis #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Logic in Computer Science (cs.LO) #Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques #cs.LO
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1604.02386
27 pages, 13 figures
arxiv created 2016/04/08 · openalex publication_date 2016/04/08 · arxiv updated 2016/04/11 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
This paper presents an operational semantics for UML activity diagrams. The purpose of this semantics is three-fold: to give a robust basis for verifying model correctness; to help validate model transformations; and to provide a well-formed basis for assessing whether a proposed extension/interpretation of the modeling language is consistent with the standard. The challenges of a general formal framework for UML models include the semi-formality of the semantics specification, the extensibility of the language, and (sometimes deliberate, sometimes accidental) under-specification of model behavior in the standard. Our approach is based on structural operational semantics, which can be extended according to domain-specific needs. The presented semantics has been implemented and tested.