Applied Software Engineering Principles for UML

The crucial factors for UML’s broad acceptance in the future are the thorough understanding of its concepts, an in-depth knowledge about the meaning and manipulation of notations, and a coherent methodological framework. Therefore, in this tutorial we focus both on a thorough treatment of UML’s description techniques and on their seamless integration into a practical development process for sequential and concurrent systems. Biography: BERNHARD RUMPE is working in the field of diagrammatic modeling languages, especially UML, and their application to software engineering. He developed an approach for a sound semantic integration of different notations, including traceability techniques for behavior models. He co-authored two books, co-organized workshops with related themes at previous ECOOP and OOPSLA conferences, and he is program chair of UML’99. RUTH BREU’s major field of interest is the foundation of object-oriented concepts and notations with an emphasis on OOA/OOD techniques and UML. She is author of two books in this area and has given several industrial seminars on UML. INGOLF KRÜGER works in the area of software engineering for distributed systems. Part of his research is the formal foundation of widely used description techniques for component interaction, aiming at their seamless integration into the overall software development process. BERNHARD, RUTH, and INGOLF work together in the group of Prof. Manfred Broy at the Technical University of Munich, collaborating with many industrial companies where the presented techniques have been applied and proven useful.