Modelling with UML, with Semantics

Time:	Lecture: Thu 9-11h, G40B-238 Exercises: Thu 13-15h, Thu 15-17h, Fri 11-13h, or Fri 15-17h (please visit one and only one of them)
Start of lecture:	Thu October 17th, 9h
Start of exercises:	Thu October 24th (please solve first exercise until then, see elearning platform)
Teaching person:	Prof. Dr. Till Mossakowski
Tutor:	S M Andalib Hossain
Semester:	Winter semester 2019/20
Language:	English
Hours/week:	4
Attendees:	Master CV, DigEng, DKE, INF, IngINF, WIF
Prerequisites:	Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science
Exam:	written exam

The Unified Modeling Language (UML) is an international standard graphical notation for software engineering. UML diagrams range from class diagrams that can be used both for conceptual modeling as well as planning the structure of an implementation, over state machines modeling the behaviour, (composite) structure diagrams describing the interaction of components, to interaction diagrams modeling typical interactions of the user with the software system. The lecture will present these different diagrams and their interplay. Moreover, it will present a formal semantics of the diagram. This is needed both for their precise understanding as well as for their use as correctness for safety-critical software.

Literature:

Central book

Martina Seidl, Marion Scholz, Christian Huemer, Gerti Kappel: UML@Classroom. An Introduction to Object-Oriented Modeling. Springer 2015 (book can be downloaded from within the university)

Further books and websites about UML:

Grady Booch, Alan Brown, Sridhar Iyengar, James Rumbaugh, Bran Selic. An MDA Manifesto. MDA Journal, May 2004.
The Unified Modeling Language
Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson: The Unified Modeling Language User Guide. Addison-Wesley, 2005
Grady Booch, James Rumbaugh, Ivar Jacobson: The Unified Modeling Reference Manual. Addison-Wesley, 2005
Systems Engineering with SysML/UML - see chapter 3 about UML
Marco Brambilla, Jordi Cabot, Manuel Wimmer. Model-Driven Software Engineering in Practice. Morgan & Claypool, 2012.
Volker Gruhn, Daniel Pieper, Carsten Röttgers. MDA. Springer, 2006 [in German]
Additional literature

Semantics of UML:

P.H.Schmitt. UML and its Meaning. Winter 2002/2003
Kevin Lano, editor. UML 2 - Semantics and Applications. Wiley, 2009
program written in SWI-Prolog for computing the set of traces. Note that a>b means "event a occurs later than event b". Store the program into traces.pl, and then enter [traces]. in order to load it.

Software

There are many UML modelling tools. We will use Papyrus and Hugo/RT. Please install both on your computer.

For installing Papyrus,

first install eclipse:
- under Ubuntu 18.04: Go to "Ubuntu-software", and install eclipse. Be sure that you install version 4.8 with this icon: , not 3.8 with this icon:
- under Windows and Mac and other Linux systems: see here
Go to here and enter that URL in Papyrus (under Help->Install new software)

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