A new executable model for software architecture based on Petri Net.

Sima Emadi  and Fereidoon Shams

doi:10.17485/ijst/2009/v2i9.7

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A new executable model for software architecture based on Petri Net.

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Indian Journal of Science and Technology

DOI: 10.17485/ijst/2009/v2i9.7

Year: 2009, Volume: 2, Issue: 9, Pages: 15-25

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A new executable model for software architecture based on Petri Net.

Sima Emadi¹ and Fereidoon Shams²

¹Computer Engineering Department, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran
²Computer Engineering Department, Shahid Beheshti University, GC., Tehran, Iran

*Author for the correspondence:
Fereidoon Shams
Computer Engineering Department, Shahid Beheshti University, GC., Tehran, Iran Tehran,
E-mail: [email protected]

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Abstract

With the growing use of UML diagrams for software architecture description and the importance of non-functional requirements evaluation at software architecture level, filling the knowledge gap between the architect and the requirements analyst is considered to be significant. In this paper, we propose a new algorithm that enables an architect to transform a software architecture described by use case, sequence and component diagrams into an executable model based on different extensions of Petri Nets. Moreover, we show how to use this Petri net model for simulation, and the implications of this transformation are described completely. Finally, to demonstrate the application of our proposed algorithm, we consider a case study.

Keywords: UML diagrams, Petri Nets, Software Architecture Description.