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Software and Systems Modeling with
Graph Transformations
Special Issue of the Journal on
Software and Systems Modeling
Over the years model-based development has
gained rapidly increasing popularity
in various engineering disciplines.
Numerous efforts have resulted in the
invention of an abundance of appropriate
modeling concepts, languages, and tools.
Today modeling activities often span
multiple disciplines and have to be addressed
by collaborative efforts across disciplines
such as industrial automation,
business engineering, hardware/software
co-design, real-time system development,
Web 2.0 application design, and so forth.
As a consequence "model-based
development" techniques related to the analysis and
synchronization of families of models that
are concurrently developed by different
engineers on different levels of
abstraction play a major role in many software
and systems development projects.
Graphs, on the other hand, are among the
simplest and most universal models for a
variety of systems, not just in computer
science, but throughout engineering and
the life sciences. Graph transformations combine
the idea of graphs as a universal
modelling paradigm with a rule-based
mathematically well-founded approach to
specify their evolution. As a consequence
graph transformation concepts, languages,
and tools offer an appropriate framework
for specifying and simulating as well as
for predicting and verifying critical
properties of model transformations in
different application domains such as ...
* Bioinformatics and system biology
* Civil engineering
* Embedded & mechatronic system
development
* Image generation and pattern recognition
techniques
* Process control engineering
* Self-adaptive systems and ubiquitous
computing
* Workflows and business processes
The Journal on Software and Systems
Modeling therefore invites original,
high-quality submissions for its theme
issue on
"Software and Systems Modeling with
Graph Transformations"
focusing on foundations, applications, and
tools that rely on graph transformation
theory and offer nevertheless practical
support for the enactment of model-based
engineering processes.
Special Issue Editors
Andy Schürr, Technische Universität
Darmstadt
Arend Rensink, University of Twente
Editors-in-Chief
Robert France, Colorado State University
Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University
Submission Details
* Papers must be written in a
scientifically rigorous manner with adequate
references to related work.
* Submitted papers must not be
simultaneously submitted in an extended or
shortened form to other journals or
conferences. It is however possible to
submit extended versions of previously
published work if less than 70% of
the content already appeared in a
NON-journal publication. Please see the
SoSyM Policy Statement on Plagiarism
for further conditions.
* Submitted papers should adhere to the
SoSyM author information instructions
for submitting papers.
* Each paper will be reviewed by three
reviewers.
More information on the SoSyM Journal,
including its purpose and scope, is
available at http://www.sosym.org/.
Important Dates
Paper submission: 03.04.2011
Notification: 04.07.2011
Camera-ready: 05.09.2011
Submission Instructions
You will find below instructions on how to
submit your paper to the SoSyM
on-line document tracking program,
Manuscript Central.
In order to submit your paper, please go to
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/sosym/
and
* create a new account (if you don't have
one)
* login and go to Author Center
* select the link for new manuscripts
under Author Resources and
provide the following information:
1- Type, Title, Abstract:
Select 'Special Section Paper' as the
paper type.
Choose Bernhard Rumpe as the Editor
in Chief (EIC).
2- Attributes:
These are keywords describing the
paper; no restrictions on this input.
3- Authors & Institutions: again, no
restrictions
4- Reviewers & Editors:
Near the bottom of this page is a
section called 'Add an Editor'.
It has a pull-down list of editors.
Please choose "Schürr &
Rensink" and click 'Designate as Preferred Editor'.
5- Details & Comments:
This form includes uploading the pdf
cover letter and answering
previous publication questions; there
are no further restrictions
we need to impose for the special
issue.
6- File Upload: Papers should be
submitted as PDF.
7- Review & Submit: no restrictions
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