2nd
International Workshop on Use Case Modeling (WUsCaM-05) Use Cases in Model-Driven Software Engineering |
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Workshop
goals Use cases have achieved wide use as specification tools for systems
observable behavior, but still remains a large gap between specifying behavior
and determining the software components to build or procure. WUsCaM 05
– “Workshop on Use Cases in Model-Driven Software
Engineering” – will bring together use case and MDSE experts from
industry and academia to identify and characterize problem areas and
promising approaches. The integration of use cases within Model-Driven Software Engineering
requires a better definition of use case contents, in particular description
of behavior through sequences of action steps, pre- and post- conditions, and
relationship between use case models and conceptual models. The UML2
specification allows for several textual and graphical representations of use
cases, but does not provide any rules for transformations between different
representations at the same level of abstraction. It does not provide either
any rule for transformations of these representations to other artifacts at
levels closer to implementation. This workshop aims to show how the
resourceful application of use case models may help to bridge the “requirements
gap” in current research and practice of model-driven methodologies. Topics
of interest Pragmatics
of use cases
Semantics
of use cases
Novel
applications of use case models in model-driven development. Participants We invite practitioners, lecturers and researchers interested in use
case modeling and MDSE to submit positions papers on the proposed topics. The
number of participants will be restricted to 15-20, upon acceptance of a
position paper based on reviewers’ comments and overall fit with the
workshop theme. We aim to have rich discussions after the presentations, and
additional papers may be explicitly invited if deemed useful. Submissions Send position papers (4.000 words at most) in electronic form to
Hernán Astudillo (hernan {at) acm.org), with subject
WUsCaM’05. Papers must follow the style rules established for the
MoDELS’05 main program papers. Important
dates
Workshop
activities The workshop will have four sessions of about 90 minutes each. The
first two sessions will be devoted to presentations (3-6 papers each,
selected among position papers based on relevance and to avoid redundancy);
the third session will break into smaller groups, according to the topics
effectively considered by the papers; and the fourth session will allow
discussion to synthesize a final set of issues and recommendations. Papers will be made available at the workshop Web site at least two
weeks before the workshop takes place, and an internet forum will be launched
so that attendants may (should they choose) cross-review and discuss
contributions, even before physically meeting at the Conference, and perhaps
after it also; this forum and its contents will be considered as archival
material and kept by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Program committee Hernán Astudillo (president) (Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María, Chile) Gonzalo Génova (co-organizer) (Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain) Michal Smialek (co-organizer)
(Warsaw University of Technology, Poland) Pierre Metz (co-organizer)
(SYNSPACE, Rubén Prieto-Díaz (co-organizer)
(James Madison University, USA) Ian Alexander (Scenario Plus
Ltd, Bruce Anderson (IBM Business
Consulting Services, Sadahiro Isoda ( Joaquin Miller (X-Change
Technologies, Anthony Simons ( |