Cheers,
Richard...

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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS AND PROPOSALS -- ECMFA 2012

Eight European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications
2-5 July 2012, Kgs. Lyngby, Denmark

http://www2.imm.dtu.dk/conferences/ECMFA-2012/

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INVITED SPEAKERS

- Henrik Lönn, VOLVO Technology, Sweden
- Ed Seidewitz, Model Driven Solutions, USA

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Deadlines for Contributions:

* Abstracts: 15 February 2012
* Paper Submission: 22 February 2012
* Notification to Authors: 10 April 2012

Deadlines for Satellite Events:

* Workshops and Tutorials Proposals: 12 December 2011
* Tools and Posters Proposals: 21 May 2012

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BACKGROUND

Model-Based Engineering (MBE) is an approach to the design, analysis and
development of software and systems that relies on exploiting high-level
models and computer-based automation to achieve significant boosts in both
productivity and quality.

The ECMFA conference series (formerly known as the ECMDA-FA conference
series) is dedicated to advancing the state of knowledge and fostering
the industrial application of MBE and related approaches. Its focus is
on engaging the key figures of research and industry in a dialog which
will result in stronger and more effective practical application of MBE,
hence producing more reliable software based on state-of-the-art
research results.

CONTRIBUTIONS

ECMFA has two distinct Paper Tracks: one for research papers (Track F)
dealing with the foundations for MBE, and one for industrial/applications
papers (Track A) dealing with the applications of MBE, including
experience reports on MBE tools.

In addition to the technical paper Tracks the conference will include
Workshops, Tutorials, Tool demonstrations and Poster exhibitions. The
deadline for submitting Workshops and Tutorial proposals is 12 Dec. 2012.
Tools and Posters Proposals are due before 21 May 2012. Detailed Calls
for these contributions will be issued shortly.

RESEARCH PAPERS ON FOUNDATIONS OF MBE (ACADEMIC TRACK F)

In this track, we are soliciting papers presenting original research on
all aspects of MBE. Typical topics of interest include, among others:

– Metamodelling: Foundations and Tools
– Domain Specific Modelling Languages
- Reasoning about Models
– Model Transformation and Code Generation
– Model Evolution, Synchronization and Consistency
– Modelling of Requirements, Architectures, Platforms
– Reverse Engineering
– Modelling for Testing and Validation
– Model Execution and Simulation
– Modelling of Service Qualities, Safety, Security, etc.
– Software Process Modelling, Enactment and Execution
– Multimodeling Foundations

INDUSTRIAL PAPERS ON APPLICATIONS OF MBE (INDUSTRIAL TRACK A)

– Comparative Studies of MBE Methods and Tools
– MBE Technology Adoption, Development and Roll-Out Processes
– Metrics for MBE Development
– MBE Training
– MBE for Legacy Systems
– MBE for Systems Engineering
– Model Verification and Quality-Driven System Development
– MBE and Domain-Specific (Modelling) Languages
– MBE and Component-Based Software Engineering
– MBE and Product Lines
– Model-based Testing
– MBE and Service Oriented Architectures
– MBE and Business Process Modelling
– Model-based Software Adaptation (Using Models at Runtime)
– Code Generation

SUBMISSION AND SELECTION

Manuscripts must be submitted as PDF files through the Easychair online
submission system: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecmfa2012

As in previous years, the proceedings of the conference with the accepted
papers of both Tracks will be published in a dedicated Springer LNCS volume
(approval pending). If accepted, the paper must be personally presented at
the ECMFA 2012 Conference by one of the authors.

A selection of the best papers of the conference will be invited to submit
extended versions to a special issue of the Software and Systems Modeling
journal, http://www.sosym.org/.

BEST PAPER AWARDS

The European Association for Programming Languages and Systems(EAPLS,
www.eapls.org) will give the Best Paper Award to the best contribution of
the ECMFA 2012 Foundations Track. The best paper of the Applications Track
will receive the ECMFA Best Industrial Paper Award. These papers will be
selected among the accepted contributions, and the awards will be given
during the event.

IMPORTANT DATES

* Abstract submission deadline: February 15, 2012
* Papers submission deadline: February 22, 2012
* Notification to authors: April 10, 2012
* Camera-ready version: April 23, 2012
* Conference: July 2-5, 2012

COMMITTEES

STEERING COMMITTEE

- Terry Bailey, Vicinay Cadenas, UK
- Reda Bendraou, University of Pierre & Marie Curie, France
- Philippe Desfray, Objecteering Software, France
- Sébastien Gérard, CEA LIST, France
- Richard Paige, University of York, UK
- Arend Rensink, University of Twente, Netherlands
- Julia Rubin, IBM Research, Israel
- Andy Schürr, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
- Regis Vogel, University of Michigan, US

ORGANISING COMMITTEE

- General Chairs: Ekkart Kindler & Harald Störrle (DTU Informatics, Denmark)
- Workshops and Tutorials Chairs: Harald Störrle and Hubert Baumeister
(DTU Informatics, Denmark)
- Tools and Posters Chair: Julia Rubin (IBM Research, Israel)
- Publications Chairs: Dimitris Kolovos (University of York)
- Publicity Chairs: Richard Paige (University of York, UK) and
Ekkart Kindler (DTU Informatics, Denmark)

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE CHAIRS

FOUNDATIONS TRACK:

- Antonio Vallecillo, Universidad de Malaga, Spain

APPLICATIONS TRACK:

- Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, MetaCase, Finland

PROGRAMME COMMITTEE MEMBERS

FOUNDATIONS TRACK

Vasco Amaral, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Marco Bambrilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Stephen C. Barrett, BNU-HKBU United International College, China
Reda Bendraou, University of Pierre & Marie Curie, France
Xavier Blanc, Université Bordeaux 1, France
Behzad Bordbar, University of Birmingham, UK
Jordi Cabot, INRIA and Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
Benoit Combemale, University of Rennes, France
Zinovy Diskin, McMaster University and University of Waterloo, Canada
Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn, Germany
Anne Etien, University of Lille and INRIA, France
Robert France, Colorado State University, USA
Jesus Garcia Molina, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Sebastien Gerard, CEA LIST, France
Marie-Pierre Gervais, University of Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, France
Martin Gogolla, University of Bremen, Germany
Pieter van Gorp, University of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, US
Esther Guerra, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
Michael R. Hansen, Technical University Denmark, Denmark
Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester, UK
Gabor Karsai, Vanderbilt University, USA
Thomas Kühne, Victoria University of Wellington, Australia
Ivan Kurtev, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Roberto Lopez-Herrejon, Johannes Kepler, University Linz, Austria
Birger Møller-Pedersen, University of Oslo, Norway
Alfonso Pierantonio, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Ivan Porres, Abo Akademi University, Finland
Juan Antonio de la Puente, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
Arend Rensink, University of Twente, The Netherlands
Louis Rose, University of York, UK
Bernhard Rumpe, Technical University of Braunschweig, Germany
Houari Sahraoui, University of Montreal, Canada
Doug Schmidt, Vanderbilt University, USA
Andy Schürr, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
Marten van Sinderen, University of Twente, The Netherlands
James Steel, University of Queensland, Australia
Ragnhild Van Der Straeten, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Belgium
Gabriele Taentzer, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany
Francois Terrier, CEA LIST, France
Hans Vangheluwe, University of Antwerp, Belgium
Daniel Varró, Budapest UTE, Hungary
Cristina Vicente-Chicote, Universidad Politecnica de Cartagena, Spain
Edward D. Willink, Thales Research, UK
Manuel Wimmer, TU Vienna, Austria
Tao Yue, Simula Research Lab, Norway
Gefei Zhang, Arbato Systems, Germany
Steffen Zschaler, Kings College London, UK

APPLICATIONS TRACK

Jan Aagedal, Norse Solutions AS, Norway
Terry Bailey, Vicinay Cadenas SA, Spain
Michael von der Beeck, BMW Group, Germany
Mariano Belaunde, Orange Labs, France
Jorn Bettin, SoftMetaWare, New Zealand
Tony Clark, Thames Valley University, London, UK
Diarmuid Corcoran, Ericsson, Sweden
Zhen Ru Dai, Hamburg University of Applied Science (HAW), Germany
Stephan Flake, Orga Systems, Germany
Mathias Fritzsche, SAP AG, Germany
Markus Heller, SAP, Germany
Andreas Hoffmann, Fraunhofer, Germany
Teemu Kanstren, VTT, Finland
Jochen Kuester, IBM Research, Switzerland
Vinay Kulkarni, Tata Consultancy Services, India
Dragan Milicev, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Parastoo Mohagheghi, Sintef, Norway
Tor Neple, Norse Solutions AS, Norway
Olli-Pekka Puolitaival, F-Secure Corporation, Finland
Laurent Rioux, THALES, France
Tom Ritter, Frauenhofer FOKUS, Germany
Julia Rubin, IBM Research, Israel
Andrey Sadovykh, SOFTEAM, France
Bernhard Schätz, fortiss GmbH, Germany
Bran Selic, Malina Software, Canada
Renuka Sindghatta, IBM Research, India
John Slaby, Raytheon, USA
Alin Stefanescu, University of Pitesti, Romania
Salvador Trujillo, Ikerlan, Spain
Andreas Ulrich, Siemens AG, Germany
Markus Voelter, Independent/ itemis, Germany
Olaf Zimmermann, IBM Zurich, Switzerland

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Answers below:

Dear fellow ATL devs,

The EMFTVM has been approved and committed to the ATL CVS repository. Please read the README.TXT file in the org.eclipse.m2m.atl.emftvm.compiler plug-in to find out how to bootstrap the ATL-to-EMFTVM compiler (this does not happen automatically!).

Thanks !

N.B. I've comitted the *.test projects under "plugins" instead of "tests". Is this a problem?

N.B.2. Checkstyle won't accept the ATL configuration ("cannot initialize module TreeWalker - TreeWalker is not allowed as a parent of FileLength"). Do any of you have problem with using the ATL checkstyle config?

Kind regards,
Dennis Wagelaar

Thanks again for your work !

Best Regards,

Op 12-05-11 19:48, Dennis Wagelaar schreef:

Hello Andreza,

The new VM should be available in CVS shortly after approval (+- 1 week?).
Release will take longer, as this must be done together with the main ATL
releases. The PMC_Approved flag has been set by now, so the code is one step
further in the IP process. I'm not sure what other steps are necessary, and
how long the entire approval process will take, though.

If you really want to try out the code already, you can take a look at:
http://soft.vub.ac.be/soft/research/mdd/emftvm
N.B. The Eclipse committed code will *not* be compatible with the above
version of EMFTVM due to rebranding (package names, plug-in IDs, etc.), and
the above version will be discontinued as soon as EMFTVM is part of ATL.

Regards,
Dennis

On 12/05/11 15:21, Andreza Vieira wrote:

Hello Dennis Wagelaar,

That's a very good proposal.
After your proposal is accepted, when can the users obtain the new version
of the ATL VM? At moment, I'm using the actual ATL VM version and I'll have
to do some changes in my project to support the new version.

Best regrads.
Andreza

2011/5/12 Dennis Wagelaar<dennis.wagelaar@xxxxxxxxx
<mailto:dennis.wagelaar@xxxxxxxxx>>

     Dear fellow ATL devs,

     As you may have noticed by now, I've submitted a feature proposal to IPzilla
     and Bugzilla. The feature concerns a new VM for ATL (EMFTVM), but also other
     rule-based transformations languages, that incorporates composition (rule
     inheritance, module superimposition) as an integral part. Most notable
     features of EMFTVM are:

     - New bytecode format that includes a notion of rules (just like Java
     bytecode
     includes the notion of classes)
     - Support for multiple rule inheritance at load-time (explicit rules
     allow for
     late super-rule lookup)
     - Support for module import with rule/helper redefinition (i.e. module
     superimposition) that *combines* with rule inheritance
     - Support for closures (in the form of nested code blocks), which can be
     used
     for OCL's higher-order operations (collect, select, ...), but also ease
     compilation (1 ATL expression = 1 EMFTVM code block), and open the door for
     fine-grained concurrency (continuations, futures)
     - Includes a lazy implementation of OCL collections
     - ATL compiler written in ATL (new bytecode format is an EMF metamodel)

     The reason I'd like to include EMFTVM with the ATL SDK, is to provide a
     research VM in which we can try out new features. The current ATL VM
     architecture makes it near impossible to change the bytecode format.
     EMFTVM's
     bytecode format can be changed more easily: the compiler is written in ATL,
     not AGC, so there is no hard dependency on the bytecode format. Also, the
     intention is to have only *one* implementation of the EMFTVM bytecode
     format.

     ATL features tested out on EMFTVM in this way can later be included in the
     mainstraim compilers/VMs (e.g. multiple rule inheritance, closures, lazy
     collections). Other features rely on a change in the bytecode format (e.g.
     late super-rule lookup), and cannot be ported to the mainstraim VMs.

     CAN YOU GUYS take a look at the IPzilla entry
     (https://dev.eclipse.org/ipzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=5171) and mark the
     *PMC_Approved* flag if you agree that EMFTVM should be included with ATL?
     Thanks already!

     Kind regards,
     Dennis Wagelaar
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