9.8 Structuring Activities

There are various ways in which the actions in an activity can be grouped together to obtain specific execution semantics. Interruptible regions allow the execution of a set of nodes to be interrupted. Structured activity nodes provide an alternate mechanism to activities for executing a set of actions with common inputs and outputs as a single group.

9.8.1 Interruptible Regions

All the action executions within an execution of an activity are terminated when the activity is terminated. However, there are some circumstances when the modeler wants a subset of the action executions to be terminated but not all.

An interruptible region can be used to model this situation. An interruptible region groups a subset of actions ...

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