Third Call for Papers
4thd International Workshop on Foundations and Practices of UML (FP-UML 2008)
http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/fpuml08
In conjunction with ER2008 (The 27th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling)
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, October 20-23, 2008.
Conference Web Site: http://www.upc.edu/ER2008
Introduction
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The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has been widely accepted as the standard object-oriented (OO) modeling language for modeling various aspects of software and information systems. The UML is an extensible language, in the sense that it provides mechanisms to introduce new elements for specific domains if necessary, such as web applications, database applications, business modeling, software development processes, data warehouses. Furthermore, the latest version of UML 2.0 got even bigger and more complicated with more diagrams for some good reasons. Although UML provides different diagrams for modeling different aspects of a software system, not all of them need to be applied in most cases. Therefore, heuristics, design guidelines, lessons learned from experiences are extremely important for the effective use of UML 2.0 and to avoid unnecessary complication. Also, approaches are needed to better manage UML 2.0 and its extensions so they do not become too complex too manage in the end. Already, the many UML extensions are not well integrated and the UML 2.0 metamodel has become very complex.
The Fourth International Workshop on Foundations and Practices of UML (FP-UML’08) intends to be a a sequel to the successful BP-UML’05, BP-UML’06 and FP-UML’07,workshops held in conjunction with the ER’05, ER’06 and ER’07 respectively. FP-UML’08 intends to be an international forum for exchanging ideas on the best and new practices of the UML in modeling and system developments. Papers focused on the application on the UML in new domains and new experiences with UML 2.0, and foundations, theory and UML 2.0 extensions are also highly encouraged. As UML 2.0 is oriented towards the software design driven by models, papers applying the Model Driven Architecture (MDA) or the Model Driven Engineering (MDE) to specific domains are also highly encouraged. The workshop will be a forum for researchers, analyzers, designers, and users who use the UML to develop systems and software
Target audiences and the scope
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The scope of the workshop includes but is not limited to:
- Sub/system design and modeling techniques
- Unified Modeling Language: What are the next steps?
- UML semantics
- Requirement modeling
- Process modeling
- Interface design
- Application design
- Database and data warehouse design & applications
- Web applications
- Model evaluation, formal or heuristics
- Metamodeling
- Applications to new domains and technologies
- Experience reports of UML modeling
- Agile modeling
- Adopting UML
- Teaching UML
- UML 2.0 diagrams
- Applying, teaching or modeling the UML 2.0
- Model-driven development methodologies and approaches.
- Model transformations
- Metamodel transformations
- Risks and applications of best practices
Workshop Chairs
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Juan Trujillo
Dept. of Language and Information Systems
University of Alicante, Spain
Email: jtrujillo@dlsi.ua.es
Andreas L. Opdahl, Ph.D.
Professor of Information Systems Development
Dept of Information Science and Media Studies
University of Bergen, Norway
Email: Andreas.Opdahl@uib.no
Steering Committee
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Juan Trujillo (University of Alicante, Spain)
Il-Yeol Song (Drexel University, USA)
Jeffrey Parsons (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
Program Committee (To Be Completed)
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Doo-Hwan Bae (EECS Dept. KAIST, Korea)
Michael Blaha (OMT Associates Inc., USA)
Cristina Cachero (University of Alicante, Spain)
Tharam S. Dillon (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
Brian Dobing (University of Lethbridge, Canada)
Dirk Draheim (Inst. of Computer Science, Freie Univ. Berlin, Germany)
Joerg Evermann (Memorial University, Canada)
Eduardo Fernandez (University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain)
Briand Henderson-Sellers (University of Technology, Sydney, Australia)
Miguel Katrib (Universidad de La Habana, Cuba)
Jens Lechtenbörger (University of Munster, Germany)
Tok-Wang Ling (National Universityot Singapore, Singapore)
Pericles Loucopoulos (University of Manchester, UK)
Hui Ma (Massey University, New Zealand)
Heinrich C. Mayr (University of Klagenfurt, Austria)
Jeffrey Parsons (Memorial University of Newfoundland, Canada)
Oscar Pastor (Technical University of Valencia, Spain)
Witold Pedrycz (Univerisity of Alberta, Canada)
Mario Piattini (University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain)
Colette Rolland (Universit Paris, France)
Matti Rossi (Helsinki School of Economics, Finland)
Manuel Serrano (University of Castilla La Mancha, Spain)
Keng Siau (University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA)
Il-Yeol Song (Drexel University, USA)
Ambrosio Toval (University of Murcia, Spain)
Panos Vassiliadis (University of Ioannina, Greece)
Harry J. Wang (University of Delaware, Newark, USA)
Submission Guidelines
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Submitted papers have to be formatted according to the ER2008 workshop author guidelines.
The ER2008 Workshop papers will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series.
Springer-Verlag publishes a full-text electronic version of LNCS in parallel with the printed version,
thus the electronic source of accepted papers is required (Springer-Verlag strongly prefers the LaTeX 2e
format, but Word format is acceptable). The page limit for workshop papers in LNCS format is 10 pages.
See the Springer site for author instructions. Please follow the author instructions carefully.
Paper submission will be made through the official FP-UML’08 Web page:
http://gplsi.dlsi.ua.es/congresos/fpuml08
Important Dates
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Submission of abstracts: 7th April, 2008
Submission of full papers: 14th April, 2008
Notification to authors: 2nd June, 2008
Camera ready: 16th June, 2008
Workshop: October 20-23, 2008