MARTE12_ — Allocations kind and nature

There are many possible usages for the Allocation concept which cannot be restricted to those listed in the AllocationKind and AllocationNature enumerations.

The “kind” and “nature” attribute of both <<Allocate>> and <<Assign>> stereotypes should be optional (multiplicity: [0..1]). Alternatively, a literal could be added to the enumerations named above, such as “unspecified” or “other”, to address usages which are not covered by the existing literals.

Adopt proposal

I propose to adopt the first proposal that do not break anyway the forward compatibility of the MARTE profile. Anyway according to the diagram shown in figure 11.4, multiplicity of both properties kind and nature should be [0..1].
A priori, the same should be done for the assign stereotype.