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  1. OMG Issue

UMLR — Location: 18.1.3 Semantics Use Cases and Actors P. 686 - Multiplicity at Use Case end

  • Key: UMLR-511
  • Legacy Issue Number: 18054
  • Status: open  
  • Source: Soluta.net ( Adriano Comai)
  • Summary:

    current text: “When an Actor has an association to a UseCase with a multiplicity that is greater than one at the UseCase end, it means that a given Actor can be involved in multiple UseCases of that type.”

    [AC] This relationship between Actors and UseCases is asymmetric and in my opinion inconsistent. When a UseCase has a upper multiplicity >1 towards Actor, this means that multiple instances of Actor are involved. At the opposite end, the meaning is undetermined. This should be avoided in a metamodel definition. It would surely be less ambiguous to state that the upper multiplicity from Actor to UseCase is just 1.

  • Reported: UML 2.4.1 — Fri, 28 Sep 2012 04:00 GMT
  • Updated: Fri, 6 Mar 2015 20:57 GMT