location
The physical placement of an artifact, such as a file, within a distributed environment. In UML, location is discrete and the units of location are nodes.
See also artifact, node.
Semantics
The concept of location requires the concept of a space within which things can exist. UML does not model the full complexity of the three-dimensional universe. Instead, it supports a topological model of spaces connected by communications paths. A node is a computing resource at which a run-time entity can live. Nodes are connected by communications paths modeled as associations. Nodes may contain deployments of artifacts, which means that a copy of the artifact is stored on or executed on the node. Deployment may be specified on a type or instance ...
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