The Unified Modeling Language (UML) has rapidly become the `lingua-franca' of the software community, both in industry and academia. In doing so it has focused attention on the software modeling process, whether with languages inside or outside the UML family. The UML series of conferences is the premier venue for the exchange of innovative technical ideas and experiences relating to modeling of software-based systems.

UML 2004 will include conference papers, workshops, tutorials, posters and a tool exhibition. We invite three kinds of papers; each accepted paper will be allocated the same length slot for presentation in the conference program.

Research Papers describing innovative research on any aspect of modeling.

Experience Papers describing experience of significant application of
modeling. Such papers will be judged by the quality of their contribution
to industrial best-practice (rather than to the body of research knowledge).

Tool Papers describing innovative work on modeling-related tools. Such
papers may concern tools with any licensing model (e.g. commercial or open source). They will be judged on their interest to the modeling community, and on the contribution they make to future tool-building within it.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

• model transformations
• lessons learned from modeling
• tool support for any aspect of modeling or model use
• models in the development and maintenance process
• model evaluation, formal or informal
• metamodeling
• model-driven engineering
• semantics of modeling languages
• domain-specific and concern-oriented modeling.
  

Papers concerning modeling languages other than UML are welcome, but
authors must bear in mind that their readers will, in general, be most familiar with UML.

Important dates:

• Hard Deadline for Abstracts 21 March 2004
• Hard Deadline for Submissions 31 March 2004
• Notification to Authors 31 May 2004
• Final Version of Accepted Papers 10 July 2004

Paper Submissions: Submit your manuscript electronically in Postscript or PDF using the Springer LNCS style:

http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Full papers should be 5-15 pages in length. Papers will undergo a thorough process of review by a program committee comprising leading experts from academia and industry; however, papers which are too long may be rejected without review. Proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere.

Workshop, Tutorial and Poster Submissions: Proposals for advanced
tutorials, workshops and posters are requested. Details of the proposal process are on the conference web site.