UML 2 Activity and Action Models, Part 5: Partitions

Published

April 1, 2004

Author(s)

Conrad E. Bock

Abstract

This is the fifth in a series introducing the activity model in the Unified Modeling Language, version 2 (UML 2), and how it integrates with the action model. The first article gives an overview of activities and actions, while the next three cover actions generally, control nodes, and object nodes. This one describes partitions, which are a way of grouping actions that have some characteristic in common. In particular, they can relate actions to classes that are responsible for them, and highlight the abstraction that activities provide for interaction diagrams and state machines.

Citation

Journal of Object Technology

Volume

3

Issue

7

Pub Type

Journals

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https://doi.org/10.5381/jot.2004.3.7.c4

Keywords

action model, activity model, control and data flow, process model, UML 2

Citation

Bock, C. (2004), UML 2 Activity and Action Models, Part 5: Partitions, Journal of Object Technology, [online], https://doi.org/10.5381/jot.2004.3.7.c4 (Accessed October 15, 2025)