Download tutorial : UML Notations in CommonKADS

Download tutorial : UML Notations in CommonKADS

Background UML

Nineties: number of popular object-oriented methods

Unified Modeling Language: proposal for set of standard notations

wide attention

see www.rational.com

mainly meant for analysis phase

UML notations used 

*Class diagram

static information structure (“data”)

*Activity diagram

combined function/control view

*Use-case diagram

high level view of system services (functional)

*State diagram

highly interactive control

 

Activity diagram

Model control and information flow of a procedure or process

Useful if control is mainly synchronous

otherwise: use state diagram

Use in CommonKADS: modeling the organizational process

worksheet OM-2 of the organization model

Can also be used to model control flow within a task method (knowledge model)

Action state

State in which some work is being done

activity, task

State terminates when the work is finished

ädifference with state diagrams

After termination the action state can lead to another action state

“state transition”

Special symbols for being and end of a procedure or process

 

Swim lanes

Process can sometimes be distributed over several agents or organizational units

Notation: use compartments

In particular useful when modeling a business process (e.g. in organization model) 

Download tutorial : UML Notations in CommonKADS