Tool for automatic layout of business process model represented by UML activity diagram

Abstract

This paper presents a software tool for the automatic visualization of the UML activity diagram representing a business process model. The implemented tool takes the XMI-based representation of a programmatically generated activity diagram as the input and automatically generates its layout in accordance with the UMLDI specification. This auto layout feature is implemented as an Eclipse-Topcased plug-in named VisualAD.