Publication at Faculty of Mathematics and Physics |
2005
Abstract
Designing components and composing them into an architecture inherently involves describing their behavior. Applying a modeling language, such as UML, while dealing with these issues is desirable.
Based on the composite structures framework, the emerging standard UML 2.0 defines a hierarchical component model; here, behavior of components may be specified with use cases. UML 2.0 provides four behavior specification mechanisms.
The key goal of this paper is to evaluate whether and how these behavior specification mechanisms address the issues above.