Modelling the creation of an Actor in a use case diagram

Question

Hi

If you believe that a use case flow of events creates an actor, how would you model that?

I have a use case that creates a windows service, which (in my mind) is another system with its own set of use cases and actors.

At the moment it is not obvious from the use case diagram that an actor gets created as part of the flow of events.

Aidan.

Answer 1

Use case diagrams do not display a sequence of actions. There is no time dimension. As a result, it makes no sense to create or delete an actor.