The proceedings of the June 1999 conference contains brief outlines of the keynotes, tutorials and workshops, along with the 35 technical papers presented. Numerous papers discuss components, frameworks, complete architectures, and modeling. Two key aspects of the Unified Modeling Language receive special attention--use cases and associations. Other papers address the particular needs of distributed systems, showing how to make effective use of technologies such as the internet, CORBA and Java. Many application areas are examined including managing business rules in information systems, representing physical knowledge, and organizing recovery in real-time systems. No subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR. |