Automated Composition of Sequence Diagrams via Alloy

Mohammed Alwanain, Behzad Bordbar, Juliana K. F. Bowles

2014

Abstract

Design of large systems often involves the creation of models that describe partial specifications. Model composition is the process of combining partial models to create a single coherent model. This paper presents an automatic composition technique for creating a sequence diagram from partial specifications captured in multiple sequence diagrams with the help of Alloy. Our contribution is twofold: a novel true-concurrent semantics for sequence diagram composition, and a model-driven transformation of sequence diagrams onto Alloy that preserves the semantics of composition defined. We have created a tool called SD2Alloy that implements the automated technique and works as follows: two given sequence diagrams are transformed in two Alloy models, and then combined according to a set of logical constraints, determined by our compositional semantics, into a final composed Alloy model. The technique can also be used to detect problems and inconsistencies in the composition of diagrams.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Alwanain M., Bordbar B. and K. F. Bowles J. (2014). Automated Composition of Sequence Diagrams via Alloy . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD, ISBN 978-989-758-007-9, pages 384-391. DOI: 10.5220/0004715003840391

in Bibtex Style

@conference{modelsward14,
author={Mohammed Alwanain and Behzad Bordbar and Juliana K. F. Bowles},
title={Automated Composition of Sequence Diagrams via Alloy},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,},
year={2014},
pages={384-391},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004715003840391},
isbn={978-989-758-007-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,
TI - Automated Composition of Sequence Diagrams via Alloy
SN - 978-989-758-007-9
AU - Alwanain M.
AU - Bordbar B.
AU - K. F. Bowles J.
PY - 2014
SP - 384
EP - 391
DO - 10.5220/0004715003840391