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The workshop will be held at the Hotel Bristol Palace. See here for map. We'll be starting at 9:30 a.m.

Workshop Theme

The UML 2.0 Semantics Project is an international collaboration between academia and industry. Participants include IBM (Canada, Germany, and Israel), Queen's University (Kingston, Ontario, Canada), the Technical University of Munich (Germany), and the Technical University of Braunschweig (Germany). The main objective of this project is to develop a mathematically formalized semantic definition of the Unified Modeling Language (UML).

A precise and unambiguous definition of UML semantics is indispensable if MDD is to realize its full potential. In addition, a number of further benefits are anticipated from this effort, such as deeper understanding of UML concepts, detection of gaps and inconsistencies in the current standard, and determination of useful model analysis techniques. The results of this research have the potential to be directly useful to tool vendors, software developers, and researchers.

By the time of the symposium, the project will have been in existence for almost two years. This makes it a convenient point for reporting on the result achieved since the last workshop (co-located with ECMDA 2005 - 36 participants) and for soliciting feedback from the greater MDD community.

Workshop Goal

The goal of this workshop is to provide an open forum where individuals interested in UML semantics can learn about the Project’s current status, provide feedback, and share ideas about the topic in general. Another objective is to identify possible future collaborations with other research teams working on similar or related problems.

The workshop will not solicit paper submissions; instead, it will be organized around a set of presentations from Project team members as well as a number of invited talks from recognized domain experts, with open discussion in which all workshop participants can contribute. The content of these discussions and the workshop conclusions will be used as input for determining further research directions and collaborations.