BUILDING A PROGRAM TO CONVERT SOME OBJECTS OF SEQUENCE DIAGRAM INTO QUEUEING PETRI NETS

Abstract

A sequence diagram is an abstraction of the communication model between different entities, objects, or classes. It is used to describe an execution trace of a particular system at a particular time. Queueing Petri Nets (QPNs) are graphical forms, at a lower level of abstraction, with efficient and professional simulation-based solution techniques available. This paper presents how to build a program to automatically convert some objects in the sequence diagram to QPNs. Our approach can be used to automatically convert a complex sequence diagram into a QPNs.