The Bruce Douglass Class 2: Advanced Behavioral Modeling in UML and SysML

The UML and SysML provide very good tools for specifying behavior application systems. Behavior may be specified for individual classes, subsystems, components and use cases with state and activity diagrams. Behavior may also be specified for elements acting in collaboration using interactions diagrams using sequence, collaboration, and timing diagrams. Statecharts, an enhanced form of state machines, form the basis for state behavior in the UML. Activity diagrams, while intimately related to statecharts, are used effectively to model algorithmic behavior and have been significantly extended in the SysML to include behavior that is both continuous in time and value. Sequence diagrams are used to show how collections of individual elements work together in collaboration to produce system-wide behavior. This class €“ with heavy emphasis on exercise-based learning - discusses these methods and provides practical examples of their use.