SysML, the dedicated system level UML-based notation proposed by the OMG, is gaining a lot of momentum as a system level design standard. Design productivity is one of the main challenges facing the ...

The second primary benefit of UML for system specification comes from the fact that UML's behavioral model derives from Harel Statecharts, a well-defined executable language. You can execute and ...

In the first article in this series, we introduced the notion of an executable UML, but we did not describe the elements of which it consists. These elements must be sufficiently primitive to be ...