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This contribution investigates the application of behaviordriven transient architectural connectors to rigorously and coherently unifying UML structural- with behavioral-diagrams. Indeed, existing UML-Architectural proposals drastically neglect behavioural issues, ignoring thereby vital concurrent and evolving behaviors in today’s crossorganizational agile complex information systems (IS).
A stepwise approach is put forwards. We first conceptualize complex IS with class-and object-diagrams, OCL constraints and state-charts. In the second main step towards componentization and distribution, we explicitly distinguish local properties from to-be observed ones and then leverage the later as component interfaces. By adopting a very appealing simple stereo-typed notations on such structural interfaces, we increment them with behavioral connectors, by exploiting OCL pre- postconstraints, state transitions and related business rules. Finally, we endow this new unified UML-compliant architectural modelling proposal with a true-concurrent operational semantics based on rewriting logic.
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Aoumeur, N., Saake, G. (2008). A UML-Rewriting Driven Architectural Proposal for Developing Adaptive Concurrent IS. In: Kaschek, R., Kop, C., Steinberger, C., Fliedl, G. (eds) Information Systems and e-Business Technologies. UNISCON 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 5. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-78942-0_39
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