Great input. Thanks very much. I'll check out these approaches and post back. Excellente!
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Browse All TopicsI need to create the UML equivalent of a Data Flow Diagram, or as close to it as possible. I need it to have "sources/sinks", "processes", and "flows" with both one and two-way arrows, and labels for all of these.
Any suggestions on whether this is possible and how to approach this would be appreciated.
Thanks!
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by: marklorenzPosted on 2007-08-11 at 08:34:24ID: 19676051
The closest thing in UML is the activity diagram. You can read more here:
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Introduction to UML Activity Diagrams
http://www.agilemodeling.c
For DFDs and UML, I found these suggestions:
A Framework for Transforming Artifacts from Data Flow Diagrams to UML
http://www.actapress.com/P
For graphical representation of dataflow models we
suggest to use the use case diagrams for both, the context
level and its sub-models. Functions can be described
as use cases and dataflows with stereotyped
associations. For this purpose we introduce three additional
stereotypes: data, document and physical resource,
each of which describes a specific type of exchanging
data.
http://infolab.fri.uni-lj.
Towards an UML Based Graphical Representation of Grid Workflow Applications
http://www.springerlink.co