MODELS 2009 - ACM/IEEE 12th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems MODELS2009

ACM/IEEE 11th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems

September 28 - October 3, 2008 - Toulouse, France


http://www.modelsconference.org/


After 10 years of conferences, the MODELS / UML series of conferences will celebrate this succesful series with a number of special events.

The past decade has witnessed an explosion of interest in advanced techniques for expressing design intent at a higher level of abstraction than third-generation programming languages and for keeping abstract models of complex software systems in sync with the underlying code. Domain-specific modeling languages, model-driven engineering, model transformations, and standardization of modeling languages are among the more significant emerging trends. MODELS (formerly the UML series of conferences) is the premier conference in model-driven approaches to software development, bringing together practitioners and researchers to present and discuss both practical experience and innovative techniques.

MODELS'08 will be held in Toulouse, France. Toulouse is the 4th town in France by size of population, and the 2nd town in France by number of students (115000 students, 10000 researchers). Toulouse also hosts major companies that develop embedded software and large software systems. Located at 110km from Pyrenean mountains, 150km from the Mediterranean sea, and 250km from the Atlantic Ocean, it is a very convenient and beautiful location.


Topics of interest

Scientific papers: We invite scientific research papers describing innovative research on model-driven engineering and other aspects of modeling in the development process. Scientific research papers also include well-designed empirical studies, innovative automation solutions, and tool architectures.

Experience papers: We invite experience papers that focus on reporting project experience with model-driven engineering. These papers should describe the project context, detail practical lessons learned, and provide insight about how model-driven approaches and technologies can be improved for application in an industrial context.

In addition to scientific and experience reports, the conference will host several exciting satellite events. Following the tradition of previous editions, the satellite events will include workshops, tutorials, poster sessions, a doctoral symposium, and an educator's symposium. In addition to these, MODELS 2008 will host a technological track, and for the first time, a research projects symposium. The technological track aims to build bridges between academia and industry by presenting tools commonly used in industrial projects, illustrative case studies and industry best practices, with a strong focus on the conference hot topics.

The research project symposium aims to bring together researchers from academia and industry, and representatives of funding agencies in order to create a forum for dialog on stakeholders' interests, policies, and trends in the development of research projects, focusing on areas of interest to the MODELS community.

The conference will include papers and presentations on many of the following topics :

•Model-driven engineering methodologies, approaches, languages and tools
•Domain-specific modeling languages
•Empirical studies of modeling and model-driven engineering
•Programming language and metaprogramming support for linking models to code
•Models in the context of software evolution
•Model evaluation, formal or heuristic
•Model transformations
•Model consistency management
•Metamodeling
•Modeling languages and tools
•Semantics of modeling languages
•Model-driven testing
•Model quality
•Modeling and analysis of real-time, embedded, and distributed systems
•Model-driven adaptive systems development

Please visit the conference website http://www.modelsconference.org/ for more information.


IMPORTANT DATES (preliminary schedule)

Experience and Scientific Papers deadlines:


•Abstracts: May 2, 2008
Submissions: May 16, 2008
Notification: July 4, 2008
Camera ready: July 18, 2008

Workshop Proposals


•Deadline: March 2, 2008
•Notification: March 30, 2008

Tutorial Proposals


•Deadline: April 28, 2008
•Notification: May 30, 2008

Research projects symposium


•Abstract submission: June 1, 2008
•Notification: June 15, 2008

SUBMISSIONS
Submission web site: http://cyberchairpro3.borbala.net/modelspapers/sub...

Papers must be no longer than 15 pages in length (including references, appendices etc.) and must conform to the Springer LNCS formatting guidelines: http://www.springer.com/east/home/computer/lncs?SG... (see conference website for more information). Papers will undergo a thorough process of review by a program committee comprising leading experts from academia and industry; however, papers that are too long may be rejected without review. Scientific proceedings will be published by Springer in the LNCS series.

All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere.

Authors of best papers from the conference will be invited to revise and submit extended versions of their papers for publication consideration in a special issue of the Journal on Software and Systems Modeling (Springer).