Call for papers: The Sixth International Workshop on Foundations and Practices
of UML 
(FP-UML)

http://www-ifs.uni-regensburg.de/fp_uml/

In conjunction with ER2010 (The 29th International Conference on Conceptual
Modeling), 
Vancouver, Canada, November 1-4, 2010.


Theme of the workshop

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 Sixth International Workshop on Foundations and Practices of UML is a
sequel to the successful BP-UML’05 - 09 workshops held in conjunction with
the ER conferences. FP-UML’10 is an 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.


Topics

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
-	Requirements modeling
-	Process modeling
-	Interface design
-	Application design
-	Database and data warehouse design & applications
-	Web applications
-	Model evaluation, formal or heuristics
-	UML model quality
-	UML model testing 
-	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
 


Organizers

Günther Pernul 
Department of Information Systems
University of Regensburg, Germany 
Email: guenther.pernul@wiwi.uni-regensburg.de

Matti Rossi
Department of Business Technology
Aalto University, Finland
Email: matti.rossi@hse.fi 
	
	
Important dates
Submission of abstracts:		April 9th, 2010
Submission of full papers:	April 16th, 2010
Notification to authors:		June 2nd, 2010
Workshop:				November 1-4, 2010

Submission instructions
Submission are done according to the instructions on the web site at:
http://www-ifs.uni-regensburg.de/fp_uml/submission.html
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