CALL FOR PAPERS

Sixth CAiSE/IFIP8.1 International Workshop on
Evaluation of Modeling Methods in Systems Analysis and Design
(EMMSAD’01)

Interlaken, Switzerland, 4-5 June, 2001

Workshop Theme: Modeling Methods and Methodologies in the Mobile Millennium

Deadline for papers: February 20, 2001

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CALL FOR PAPERS

Unified Modeling Language:
A Critical Review and Suggested Future

Part of the Internet and the Digital Economy Track of the Thirty-Fourth Annual Hawai'i International Conference on Systems Sciences (HICSS) Maui, Hawaii, USA January 3 - 6, 2001

The Object Management Group (OMG) accepted the UML as an industry standard in 1998. UML is currently at release 1.3 and specifies a notation and modeling language for object oriented systems analysis and design. In addition, there is a formal specification language, Object Constraint Language (OCL). Adoption of UML in teaching and industry has been dramatic, at least for the design of object-oriented code. There is clearly a need, which UML in some respects satisfies. Although there is a published meta-model, UML does not have a deep or consistent semantics behind the modeling language. The current specification also does not address the process or method dimension required to apply the UML in practice. A variety of methods, including the Unified Process from Ivar Jacobson and colleagues at Rational, are now emerging to address this aspect. None of these has yet been ratified as a standard.

Critical review of UML is beginning in earnest as industry tries to apply it in practical projects. Assessment of the variety of methods claiming support for the UML notation is urgently needed. Experience reports and suggestions for improvement can provide valuable input into the ongoing revision process under auspices of the OMG.

Topics of interest:

We are soliciting high quality papers and innovative discussions in the areas of:

• Practical experience of UML usage
• Empirical research in the application of UML
• Critical examination of the UML and its associated meta-model
• Use of OCL and its integration with UML and support in tools
• Proposals for extensions of UML
• Critiques of, and proposals for, processes and lifecycles using the UML to express deliverables (e.g. Catalysis, Unified Process)
• Issues in the automation of UML and support in tools
• Metrics for UML models and the application of UML
• Comparison (particularly with respect to efficacy) between UML and competing notations/approaches (e.g., Open, ORM)

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Deadlines

Instructions for Paper Submission

1. Papers should be submitted electronically (in Word or PDF) directly to Dr. Graham McLeod.
2. Papers should contain original material and not be previously published, or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere.
3. Each paper must have a title page to include title of the paper, full name of all authors, and complete addresses including affiliation(s), telephone number(s), and e-mail address(es). Papers should be 22-26 double-spaced pages, including diagrams. The title page is the ONLY place where the authors¹ names and affiliations appear.
4. The first page of the manuscript should include the title and a 300-word abstract of the paper.