9.14 Executing Activities

A SysML model can be used to specify the structure and behavior of a system, as discussed throughout Part II of this book. Often a SysML model is used simply to facilitate communication among project teams; but sometimes the model is intended to be interpreted by machines or computer programs to simulate the system that it specifies. This latter category of model is often called an executable specification because it contains all the information necessary for a machine to “execute” it. The construction of executable specifications requires the modeling formalism (SysML in this case) to have semantics defined precisely enough to allow execution of the model. This section describes how SysML supports the execution of activities ...

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