[fg-arc] 4. Workshop on View-based, Aspect-oriented, and Orthographic Software Modelling (VAO)

[Erik Burger]

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|                  VAO 2016 - Call for Contributions                |
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|                          4th Workshop on                          |
|  View-Based, Aspect-Oriented and Orthographic Software Modelling  |
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|               A satellite event of Modellierung 2016              |
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|                  2 March 2016, Karlsruhe, Germany                 |
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In Model-Driven Engineering, the functionality of complex systems lies
beyond the representative capabilities of a single model. Therefore,
an increasing variety of heterogeneous models and languages are used
in the various phases of software development. Information about a
system is consequently spread across these various models with
possible overlaps, redundancies, and inconsistencies. To cope with
this complexity, which normally exceeds the cognitive capacity of a
single individual, various approaches have been developed to
re-organize information during systems development.

Different approaches that allow system modelling from various
perspectives or according to separate concerns focus on such diverse
issues that it is difficult to compare and evaluate them. Some of them
present solutions for a specific set of modelling languages or views,
but make it hard to assess the applicability in other scenarios.
Others provide means to define new views on models, but do not
consider how redundancy-free models can be established.

Goal
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The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners with an interest in model-driven software development to
foster a fruitful cross-pollination of ideas between different
communities dealing with the separation and integration of views,
concerns, and roles in system modelling. In break-out sessions,
potential topics for scientific exchange will be elicited, possible
comparison criteria will be collected, and ideas for future
colaborations will be discussed.

In order to provide a foundation for these discussions, we encourage
submissions on new concepts, implementations or formalism as well as
submissions on controversial positions, requirements for a common
case-study or case-study scenarios. Submissions should contribute to
investigating and discussing the benefits and drawbacks of different
multi-view modelling approaches or identifying best practices.

Topics
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The workshop is interested in submissions on all topics related to
model-driven development that deal with the separation and integration
of different perspectives, languages, abstractions, views or concerns.
More specifically, this includes:
- bridging the gap between different views or metamodels,
- generating, defining and evolving different views, models and
metamodels,
- round-trip engineering and co-evolution of different models,
- composition of different views, models and metamodels,
- (bidirectional) transformations of metamodels,
- avoiding inconsistencies, overlap and redundancies between modelling
artefacts,
- using role modelling concepts for model-driven engineering,
- generating models and metamodels for multiple views or formalisms,
- separating and re-integrating cross-cutting concerns or model
weaving,
- dynamic information hiding for partial views,
- coupling of software and non-software models

Contributions
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Submissions to the workshop are possible in two categories.

*Research papers* should describe original work on a problem or
solution that pertains to the systematic separation or integration of
models, concerns, views, or other modelling artefacts on six to eight
pages.

*Position papers* should present a well-defined position on how
various modelling languages, viewpoints, heterogeneous subsystems, or
concerns should be handled in MDE on two to four pages.

All paper submissions have to adhere to the ACM SIG Proceedings Style
(alternate format).

Organizers
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Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany
Erik Burger, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Thomas Goldschmidt, ABB Corporate Research, Ladenburg, Germany
Ralf Reussner, Forschungszentrum Informatik (FZI), Karlsruhe, Germany

Important Dates
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Paper submission: 10 January 2016
Author notification: 1 February 2016
Camera-ready version: 15 February 2016
Workshop date: 2 March 2016

Contact
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vao-workshop at ira.uka.de

Homepage
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http://vao.ipd.kit.edu/

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