Second International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing
Role Activity Diagrams as Finite State Processes
Ljubljana, Slovenia
October 13-October 14
ISBN: 0-7695-2069-3
Many formal modelling notations for business processes have been proposed during the last decade. They can be broadly classified into high-level visual notations, with an intuitive meaning, mainly addressed to the business management community and low-level foundational notations, with a detailed and formal semantics, mainly addressed to the computer science community. Role activity diagrams are a popular high-level visual notation for capturing the dynamics and role structure of an organization. This paper establishes that role activity diagrams have a formal semantics as well and thus making them suitable to formal verification. The result is obtained by mapping of a role activity diagram model to a process algebra model. Process algebras are mathematical languages for the specification and understanding of concurrent and cooperating computational processes.
Citation:
Costin Badica, Amelia Badica, Valentin Litoiu, "Role Activity Diagrams as Finite State Processes," ispdc, pp.15, Second International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing, 2003