• Journal of Convergence Society for SMB
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• v.1 no.1
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• pp.75-83
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• 2011

Unified Modeling Language (UML) is widely accepted in industry and particularly UML State Machine Diagram is popular for describing the dynamic behavior of classes. This paper discusses deadlock detection of System using UML State Machine Diagram. Since a State Machine Diagram is used for indivisual class' behavior, all the State Machine Diagrams of the classes in the system are combined to make a big system-wide State Machine Diagram to describe system behavior. Generally this system-wide State Machine Diagram is very complex and contains invalid state and transitions. To make it a usable and valid State Machine Diagram, synchronization and externalization are applied. The reduced State Machine Diagram can be used for describing system behavior thus conventional model-checking technique can be applied. This paper shows how deadlock detection of system can be applied with simple examples. All the procedures can be automatically done in the tool.