In the wide area of visual modeling techniques a large number of CASE and Meta-CASE tools have been developed to define and work with visual modeling techniques. In this report, we mainly concentrate on those tools developed by partners and grant holders of the Research Training Network SegraVis on Syntactic and Semantic Integration of Visual Modeling Techniques. Each tool is shortly introduced...

This paper presents DECOR, a conngurable design ow management component for online monitoring and control of concurrent design processes. In addition , DECOR allows automatic activation of design actions. Since DECOR is tightly integrated into a framework like a usual design tool, its approach is also applicable for other frameworks. DECOR allows to control encapsulated tools as well as tools t...

Biological models often contain components that have relationships with each other, or that modelers want to treat as belonging to groups with common characteristics or shared metadata. The SBML Level 3 Version 1 Core specification does not provide a n explicit mechanism for expressing such relationships, but it does provide a mechanism for SBML packages to extend the Core specification and add...

Serious games play an important role in education. The interplay of education and gameplay induces to higher motivation of players and enhance their learning success. Serious games development implies programming knowledge and didactical knowledge. However educators are not able to develop such games on their own due to lack of programming and game design skills. In our research, we focus on a ...

Groupware is explicitly designed to support the cooperation among group members. The implementation of cooperation-aware groupware is supported by several object-oriented toolkits and frameworks, but there is no uni®ed way to model applications built on top of these. We have proposed UML-G as an extensible UML pro®le for modeling groupware and are in the process of turning it into a community e...

An extension of the “Object Constraint Language” (OCL) for modeling real-time and reactive systems in the “Unified Modeling Language” (UML) is proposed, called OCL/RT. A general notion of events that may carry time stamps is introduced providing means to describe the detailed dynamic and timing behaviour of UML software models. OCL is enriched by satisfaction operators @η for referring to the v...

An approach for tight coupling of process models and software development tools — with the metaphor of component-based software development environments — supporting “eXecutable Process Models” (XPM) is presented. In this paper, we focus on the direction from the components of a software development environment towards the process models in order to automatically acquire process model informati...