BX 2015 - Fourth International Workshop on Bidirectional Transformations

Bidirectional transformations (Bx) are a mechanism for maintaining the consistency of at least two related sources of information. Such sources can be relational databases, software models and code, or any other document following standard or ad-hoc formats. Bx are an emerging topic in a wide range of research areas, with prominent presence at top conferences in several different fields (namely databases, programming languages, software engineering, and graph transformation), but with results in one field often getting limited exposure in the others. Bx 2015 is a dedicated venue for Bx in all relevant fields, and is part of a workshop series that was created in order to promote cross-disciplinary research and awareness in the area. As such, since its beginning in 2012, the workshop rotated between venues in different fields. In 2015, Bx is co-located with STAF for the first time.
Aim and topics
The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners, established and new, interested in Bx from different perspectives, such as:
data and model synchronization
view updating
inter-model consistency analysis and repair
data/schema (or model/metamodel) co-evolution
coupled software/model transformations
inversion of transformations and data exchange mappings
domain-specific languages for Bx
analysis and classification of requirements for Bx
bridging the gap between formal concepts and application scenarios
analysis of efficiency of transformation algorithms and benchmarks
survey and comparison of Bx technologies
case studies and tool support