Free choice Petri nets
Doing hard time: developing real-time systems with UML, objects, frameworks, and patterns
Doing hard time: developing real-time systems with UML, objects, frameworks, and patterns
Mobile communications
UML-B: Formal modeling and design aided by UML
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Modelling concurrent interactions
Theoretical Computer Science - Algebraic methodology and software technology
Model-Driven Software Development: Technology, Engineering, Management
Model-Driven Software Development: Technology, Engineering, Management
Coloured Petri Nets and CPN Tools for modelling and validation of concurrent systems
International Journal on Software Tools for Technology Transfer (STTT)
Faster and More Focused Control-Flow Analysis for Business Process Models Through SESE Decomposition
ICSOC '07 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Service-Oriented Computing
A Model Driven Approach to Represent Sequence Diagrams as Free Choice Petri Nets
EDOC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 12th International IEEE Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference
A Model Driven Approach to the Analysis of Timeliness Properties
ECMDA-FA '09 Proceedings of the 5th European Conference on Model Driven Architecture - Foundations and Applications
SiTra: simple transformations in Java
MoDELS'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
On the integration of UML and petri nets in software development
ICATPN'06 Proceedings of the 27th international conference on Applications and Theory of Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency
UML2Alloy: a challenging model transformation
MODELS'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Strongly consistent transformation of partial scenarios
ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes
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Among the factors that contribute to the inherent complexity of the software development process is the gap between the design and the formal analysis domains. Software design is often considered a human oriented task while the analysis phase draws on formal representation and mathematical foundations. An example of this dichotomy is the use of UML for the software design phase and Petri Nets for the analysis; a separation of concerns that leads to the creation of heterogeneous models. Although UML is widely accepted as a language that can be used to model the structural and behavioural aspects of a system, its lack of mathematical foundations is seen as a serious impediment to rigorous analysis. Petri Nets on the other hand have a strong mathematical basis that are well suited for formal analysis; they lack however the appeal and the ease-of-use of UML. A pressing concern for software developers is how to bridge the gap between these domains and allow for model interoperability and the integration of different toolsets across them, and thus reduce the complexity of the software development process. The aim of this paper is to present a Model Driven Development (MDD) model transformation which supports a seamless transition between UML and Petri Nets. This is achieved by model interoperability from UML Sequence Diagrams to Petri Nets and supported by tool integration. The model transformation framework allows a software system to be designed in terms of UML Sequence Diagrams and subjected to formal analysis by taking advantage of the strong mathematical framework of Petri Nets. The behaviour of a Personal Area Network will be used to illustrate the proposed approach and to highlight model interoperability and tool integration through the design, the transformation and the analysis phases.