SPECIFICATION AND VERIFICATION OF WORKFLOW APPLICATIONS USING A COMBINATION OF UML ACTIVITY DIAGRAMS AND EVENT B

Ahlem Ben Younes, Leila Jemni Ben Ayed

2010

Abstract

This paper presents a transformation of UML activity diagrams (AD) into Event B for the specification and the verification of workflow applications. With this transformation, UML models could be verified by verifying derived event B models, automatically, using the B powerful support tools like B4free. The workflows is initially expressed graphically with UML AD and translated into Event B. The resulting model is then enriched with Invariants/Assertions describing functional properties of workflow models such as deadlock-inexistence. We present translation rules of UML AD into EventB, and we propose also a translation process of UML AD into EventB specifications based on the refinement technique of Event B to encode the hierarchical decomposition in UML AD. Also, we propose a solution to specify time in Event B, and by an example of workflow application, we illustrate the proposed technique.

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Ben Younes A. and Jemni Ben Ayed L. (2010). SPECIFICATION AND VERIFICATION OF WORKFLOW APPLICATIONS USING A COMBINATION OF UML ACTIVITY DIAGRAMS AND EVENT B . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8425-23-2, pages 312-316. DOI: 10.5220/0003012003120316


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@conference{icsoft10,
author={Ahlem Ben Younes and Leila Jemni Ben Ayed},
title={SPECIFICATION AND VERIFICATION OF WORKFLOW APPLICATIONS USING A COMBINATION OF UML ACTIVITY DIAGRAMS AND EVENT B},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,},
year={2010},
pages={312-316},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0003012003120316},
isbn={978-989-8425-23-2},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,
TI - SPECIFICATION AND VERIFICATION OF WORKFLOW APPLICATIONS USING A COMBINATION OF UML ACTIVITY DIAGRAMS AND EVENT B
SN - 978-989-8425-23-2
AU - Ben Younes A.
AU - Jemni Ben Ayed L.
PY - 2010
SP - 312
EP - 316
DO - 10.5220/0003012003120316