This book contains the thoroughly refereed technical papers presented in six workshops collocated with the International Conference on Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations, STAF 2017, held in Marburg, Germany, in July 2017. The 15 full and 22 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 37 submissions. The events whose papers are included in this volume are: BigMDE 2017: 5th International Workshop on Scalable Model Driven Engineering GCM 2017: 8th International Workshop on Graph Computation Models GRAND 2017: 1st International Workshop on Grand Challenges in Modeling MORSE 2017: 4th International Workshop on Model-driven Robot Software Engineering OCL 2017: 17th International Workshop in OCL and Textual Modeling STAF Projects Showcase 2017: 3rd event dedicated to international and national project dissemination and cooperation

This book constitutes the proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing, SAT 2020, which was planned to take place in Alghero, Italy, during July 5-9, 2020. Due to the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, the conference was held virtually. The 25 full, 9 short, and 2 tool papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 69 submissions. They deal with SAT interpreted in a broad sense, including theoretical advances (such as exact algorithms, proof complexity, and other complexity issues), practical search algorithms, knowledge compilation, implementation-level details of SAT solvers and SAT-based systems, problem encodings and reformulations, applications (including both novel application domains and improvements to existing approaches), as well as case studies and reports on findings based on rigorous experimentation.

This textbook mainly addresses beginners and readers with a basic knowledge of object-oriented programming languages like Java or C#, but with little or no modeling or software engineering experience - thus reflecting the majority of students in introductory courses at universities. Using UML, it introduces basic modeling concepts in a highly precise manner, while refraining from the interpretation of rare special cases. After a brief explanation of why modeling is an indispensable part of software development, the authors introduce the individual diagram types of UML (the class and object diagram, the sequence diagram, the state machine diagram, the activity diagram, and the use case diagram), as well as their interrelationships, in a step-by-step manner. The topics covered include not only the syntax and the semantics of the individual language elements, but also pragmatic aspects, i.e., how to use them wisely at various stages in the software development process. To this end, the work is complemented with examples that were carefully selected for their educational and illustrative value. Overall, the book provides a solid foundation and deeper understanding of the most important object-oriented modeling concepts and their application in software development. An additional website offers a complete set of slides to aid in teaching the contents of the book, exercises and further e-learning material.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Tests and Proofs, TAP 2014, held in York, UK, in July 2014, as part of the STAF 2014 Federated Conferences. The 10 revised full papers and 4 short papers presented together with two tutorial descriptions were carefully reviewed and selected from 27 submissions. The papers cover topics in the following four research areas: test generation, bridging semantic gaps, integrated development processes and bounded verification.