Investigation and Evaluation of UML Action Languages

Omar Badreddin, Timothy C. Lethbridge, Andrew Forward

2014

Abstract

We analyze the current direction of UML Action Language development and provide a classification of the proposed action language structure and statements. We also present a functioning implementation of an action language and discuss our platform for experimenting with Action Language based systems. We propose a novel approach that adopts a bottom-up technique to defining an action language. This approach embeds the action language into a textual environment that includes the UML modeling elements. Unlike current action languages that typically address class diagrams only, our proposal includes class and state machine modeling abstractions as part of the action language. We tackle the problem of modeling-in-text not by introducing yet another programming language, but instead by providing an increased level of abstraction to existing high level programming languages. Both, a textual representation of the model and its visual view represent the same underlying model but from different vantage points.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Badreddin O., Lethbridge T. and Forward A. (2014). Investigation and Evaluation of UML Action Languages . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD, ISBN 978-989-758-007-9, pages 264-273. DOI: 10.5220/0004699902640273

in Bibtex Style

@conference{modelsward14,
author={Omar Badreddin and Timothy C. Lethbridge and Andrew Forward},
title={Investigation and Evaluation of UML Action Languages},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,},
year={2014},
pages={264-273},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004699902640273},
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 - Investigation and Evaluation of UML Action Languages
SN - 978-989-758-007-9
AU - Badreddin O.
AU - Lethbridge T.
AU - Forward A.
PY - 2014
SP - 264
EP - 273
DO - 10.5220/0004699902640273