[fg-arc] CFP - Workshop on Executable Modeling (EXE 2018) - co-located with MODELS 2018

[Bousse, Erwan Gwendal]

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Call for Papers:
4th International Workshop on Executable Modeling (EXE 2018)
Co-located with MODELS 2018, 
October 14, 2018 
Copenhagen, Denmark
http://www.modelexecution.org/exe2018
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We are pleased to invite you to submit papers to the Fourth
International Workshop on Executable Modeling (EXE 2018), held in
conjunction with the ACM/IEEE 20th International Conference on Model
Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS) at Copenhagen,
Denmark, on October 14, 2018.

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Scope and Topics
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The complexity of modern software-intensive systems, time-to-market
pressures, and the need for high quality systems are current challenges
faced by the software and systems engineering industry. To address
these challenges, model-driven engineering (MDE) advocates the
elevation of models into the center of the development process. Models
provide abstractions over the system to be developed, while also
providing enough detail to automate the development of implementation
artifacts and perform early analysis. 

In this context, executable models become more and more important. They
provide abstractions of complex system behaviors and constitute the
basis for performing early analyses of that behavior. The ability to
analyze a system’s behavior early in its development has the potential
to turn executable models into important assets of model-driven
software development processes. 

Despite the potential benefits of executable models, there are still
many challenges to solve, such as the lack of maturity in the
definition of and tooling for executable modeling languages, and the
limited experience with executable modeling in much of the software and
systems development industry. EXE 2018 will provide a forum for
researchers and practitioners to discuss these challenges and propose
potential solutions, as well as to assess and advance the state-of-the-
art in this area. 

Topics of interest to the workshop include but are not limited to the
following:

- Methodologies, languages, techniques, and methods for designing and
implementing executable modeling languages
- Case studies and experience reports on the successful or failed
adoption of executable modeling in different application domains and
application contexts
- Model execution tools for the (dynamic) validation, verification, and
testing of systems (e.g., model animation, debugging, simulation, trace
exploration, model checking, symbolic execution)
- Tracing model executions and analyzing model execution traces 
- Automation techniques for the development of model execution tools
- Evolution in the context of executable modeling (e.g., evolution of
executable modeling languages, execution semantics, executable models,
model execution tools)
- Verification of semantic conformance (e.g., among executable modeling
languages, executable models, model execution tools)
- Customization of executable modeling languages and model execution
tools (e.g., semantic variation points,profiles)
- Composition, extension, and reuse of executable modeling languages
and model execution tools 
- Integration of executable modeling languages and programming
languages
- Semantics-aware model transformations and code generation
- Scalability of model execution and execution-based model analysis
- Execution of partial and underspecified models
- Model execution in the presence of non-determinism and concurrency
- Surveys and benchmarks of different approaches for the development of
executable modeling languages, model execution, and execution-based
model analysis

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Submissions
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We will accept the following types of submissions:

1) Research papers (up to 6 pages) presenting novel and innovative
approaches in executable modeling. We also strongly encourage the
submission of comparative studies and benchmarks of existing approaches
in one of the workshop topics.

2) Experience reports (up to 6 pages) presenting experiences and
lessons learned in executable modeling. Experience reports should
discuss knowledge gained from an executable modeling project and
identify key challenges encountered.

3) Position papers (up to 3 pages) presenting new ideas or early
research results in executable modeling.

4) Tool demonstration papers (up to 3 pages) presenting novel tools or
novel features of state-of-the-art tools related to executable
modeling. Submissions of tool demonstration papers should consist of
two parts. The first part (up to 3 pages) will be included in the
proceedings and should describe the tool presented (please include the
URL of the tool if available). The second part (up to 2 pages) should
explain how the tool demonstration will be carried out at the workshop,
including examples and screenshots.

All submissions have to follow the ACM sigconf formatting instructions
available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template.
Submissions created with LaTeX are preferred, but using Word is
allowed.

Submit your paper electronically as PDF via EasyChair at https://easych
air.org/conferences/?conf=exe2018.

All submissions will be evaluated by at least three members of the
program committee. Research papers, experience reports, and tool
demonstration papers will be evaluated concerning novelty, correctness,
significance, readability, and alignment with the workshop call.
Position papers will be evaluated primarily concerning validity and
ability to generate discussion (even controversy), as well as alignment
with the workshop call. Furthermore, all submissions must be original
work and must not have been previously published or being under review
elsewhere.

For each accepted paper, at least one of the authors must register for
the workshop, participate fully in the workshop, and present the paper
at the workshop. A pre-workshop version of the accepted papers will be
available on the workshop website and a post-workshop version will be
published as CEUR workshop proceedings (http://ceur-ws.org).

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Workshop Format
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EXE 2018 is a full-day workshop held as part of MODELS 2018. We plan to
have one keynote talk in the morning, followed by two sessions of
presentations of the accepted papers. The last session of the day will
be a discussion session, where challenges, questions, experiences,
opinions, and requirements related to executable modeling will be
discussed. The detailed program will be announced in August, shortly
after the author notifications have been sent.

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Important Dates 
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- Abstract submission deadline: July 10, 2018
- Submission deadline: July 17, 2018
- Author notification: August 17, 2018
- Submission deadline for camera-ready version: August 21, 2018
- Workshop: October 14, 2018

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Organizers
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- Tanja Mayerhofer, TU Wien, AT
- Philip Langer, EclipseSource, AT
- Ed Seidewitz, nMeta, US
- Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, US
- Erwan Bousse, TU Wien, AT

Contact: exe at modelexecution.org

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Program Committee
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- Francis Bordeleau, Canada
- Andrei Chiş, feenk, Switzerland
- Federico Ciccozzi, Mälardalen University, Sweden
- Tony Clark, Aston University, United Kingdom
- Peter Clarke, Florida International University, United States
- Benoit Combemale, IRISA and University of Rennes, France
- Jonathan Corley, University West Georgia, USA
- Julien Deantoni, University Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, I3S, Inria,
France
- Thomas Degueule, CWI, The Netherlands
- Davide Di Ruscio, University of L'Aquila, Italy
- Juergen Dingel, Queen's University, Canada
- Nicolas Hili, IRT Saint Exupéry, France
- Nicholas Matragkas, University of Hull, United Kingdom
- Marjan Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia
- Zoltan Micskei, Budapest University of Technology and Economics,
Hungary
- Domenik Pavletic, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany
- Ernesto Posse, Zeligsoft, Canada
- Taylor Riche, National Instruments, United States
- Bran Selic, Malina Software Corporation, Canada
- Cortland Starrett, One Fact Inc, United States
- Jérémie Tatibouët, CEA, France
- Massimo Tisi, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
- Simon Van Mierlo, University of Antwerp, Belgium
- Andreas Wortmann, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
- Thanos Zolotas, University of York, United Kingdom