UML: The Birth and Rise of a Standard Modeling Notation -- Developing with UML – Some Pitfalls and Workarounds -- Supporting and Applying the UML Conceptual Framework -- Modeling: Is It Turning Informal into Formal? -- Best of Both Worlds – A Mapping from EXPRESS-G to UML -- Porting ROSES to UML – An Experience Report -- Making UML Models Interoperable with UXF -- Transformation Rules for UML Class Diagrams -- Semantics and Transformations for UML Models -- Automation of Design Pattern: Concepts, Tools and Practices -- Automating the Synthesis of UML StateChart Diagrams from Multiple Collaboration Diagrams -- Informal Formality? The Object Constraint Language and Its Application in the UML Metamodel -- Reflections on the Object Constraint Language -- On Using UML Class Diagrams for Object-Oriented Database Design -- Literate Modelling — Capturing Business Knowledge with the UML -- Applying UML to Design an Inter-domain Service Management Application -- Booster*Process: A Software Development Process Model Integrating Business Object Technology and UML -- Hierarchical Context Diagrams with UML: An Experience Report on Satellite Ground System Analysis -- Extension of UML Sequence Diagrams for Real-Time Systems -- UML and User Interface Modeling -- On the Role of Activity Diagrams in UML – A User Task Centered Development Process for UML -- Structuring UML Design Deliverables -- Considerations of and Suggestions for a UML-Specific Process Model -- An Action Language for UML: Proposal for a Precise Execution Semantics -- Real-Time Modeling with UML: The ACCORD Approach -- The UML as a Formal Modeling Notation -- OML: Proposals to Enhance UML -- Validating Distributed Software Modeled with the Unified Modeling Language -- Supporting Disciplined Reuse and Evolution of UML Models -- Applying UML Extensions to Facilitate Software Reuse -- A Formal Approach to Use Cases and Their Relationships -- A Practical Framework for Applying UML -- Extending Aggregation Constructs in UML.

This volume contains mainly the revised versions of papers presented at the wo- shop '98, "Beyond the Notation", that took place in Mulhouse, France on June 3-4, 1998. We thank all those that have made this possible, and particularly all the people in Mulhouse that worked hard to make this meeting a success, with such a short delay between the announcement and the realization. We are specially grateful to Nathalie Gaertner, who put in a tremendous amount of effort in the initial preparation of the workshop. We were pleasantly surprised of the quality of the submitted material and of the level of the technical exchanges at the Mulhouse meeting. More than one hundred attendees, from about twenty different countries, representing the main actors in the UML research and development scene, gathered in Mulhouse for two full study days. We would like to express our deepest appreciation to the authors of submitted - pers, the editorial committee for this volume, the program committee for the initial workshop, the external referees, and many others who contributed towards the final contents of this volume. April 1999 Jean Bézivin Pierre-Alain Muller.