The target audiences will be university researchers, scientists, industry professionals, information systems specialists, and graduate students who want to explore the best practices on using the UML in effective ways. The scope of the workshop includes but is not limited to:

• Sub/system design and modeling techniques
• Unified Modeling Language: What are the next steps?
• Requirement modeling
• Process modeling
• Interface design
• Application design
• Database and data warehouse design & applications
• Web applications
• Coupling and de-coupling of models
• Model evaluation, formal or heuristics
• Metamodeling
• Applications to new domains and technology
• Experience reports of UML modeling
• Agile modeling
• Adopting UML
• Teaching UML
• Model-driven development methodologies, approaches, and languages
• Model transformations