[fg-arc] CFP − International Workshop on Modeling Language Engineering and Execution (MLE) − co-located with MODELS 2019

Erwan BOUSSE Erwan.Bousse at ls2n.fr
Tue Jun 4 17:25:36 CEST 2019 

 

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Call for Papers: 
International Workshop on Modeling Language Engineering and Execution
(MLE) 
The joint Fifth International Workshop on Executable Modeling (EXE) 
and Seventh International Workshop on the Globalization of Modeling
Languages (GEMOC), 
co-located with MODELS 2019, 
September 2019, 
Munich, Germany 
http://gemoc.org/events/mle2019 [1] 
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About the conference 
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MLE 2019 is a brand new MODELS workshop resulting from the merger of two
recurring MODELS workshops, namely GEMOC and EXE! Accordingly, it will
be a full-day workshop that brings together researchers and
practitioners in the modeling languages community to discuss the
challenges associated with the engineering of modeling languages, with
executability, and with integrating multiple, heterogeneous modeling
languages. The languages of interest include both general-purpose and
domain-specific languages with topics ranging from the requirements,
design, and implementation of languages that may or may not be
executable. 

Following the previous editions of the GEMOC and EXE workshops, the
objective is to continue collaborations and to expand on the two
overlapping communities that are focused on solving problems arising
both from the globalization of modeling languages - i.e., the use of
multiple DSLs to support coordinated development of diverse aspects of a
system - and the problems related to the executability of modeling
languages - i.e., defining, composing, verifying and tooling the
execution semantics of DSLs. MLE 2019 will provide an open forum for
sharing experiences, problems, and solutions on all these topics. This
workshop will be the place where concrete artifacts, ideas, and opinions
are exchanged in order to gather constructive feedback. 

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Topics 
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The increasing complexity of modern software-intensive systems demands
enhanced software engineering methods. Separation of concerns of the
diverse stakeholders' facilitates the coordinated development of system
aspects implementing these concerns. These different concerns are often
associated with specialized description languages and technologies,
which are based on concern-specific problems and solution concepts.
Executable modeling languages, for instance, are increasingly used to
provide abstractions of a system's behavior, and to perform early
analyses of that behavior. Hence, software developers are faced both
with the challenging task of engineering each separate modeling language
and associated technologies and with the task of integrating the
different languages from different concern spaces. 

The topics of interest include (but are not limited to): 

- Tools and methods for engineering modeling languages (eg. DSLs) 
- Defining, composing, verifying and tooling the execution semantics of
modeling languages 
- Composability and interoperability of heterogeneous modeling languages

- Heterogeneous modeling and simulation 
- Tools and methods for the dynamic validation, verification of systems
(e.g., model animation, testing debugging, simulation, tracing, trace
exploration, model checking, symbolic execution) 
- Tools and methods to deal with the different system aspects and to
ensure consistency and coherence between the different models 
- Execution and composition of partial and underspecified models 
- Language interface, viewpoint 
- Multi-language or multi-disciplinary environment 
- Model execution and composition in the presence of non-determinism and
concurrency 
- Tools and methods for socio-technical coordination in the context of
heterogeneous modeling 
- Language integration challenges, from requirements to design, for
analysis and simulation, during runtime, etc. 
- Surveys and benchmarks of different approaches for the development of
modeling languages 

Submissions describing practical and industrial experience related to
the use of executable and/or heterogeneous modeling languages are also
encouraged, particularly in the following application domains: 

- Cyber-Physical Systems, System of Systems 
- Internet of Services, Internet of Things 
- Complex Adaptive Systems 
- Smart City, Smart Building, Home automation 

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Workshop Format 
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The format of the workshop reflects the goals of the workshop:
constructive feedback on submitted papers and other artifacts on the
conjoint use of different modeling languages, collaborations, and
community building. The format of the workshop is that of a working
meeting. Hence, there is less focus on presentations and more focus on
producing and documenting a research content that identifies challenges,
different forms of language integration, and relates existing solutions.


The workshop consists of a morning session in which a keynote and short
presentations of the accepted papers will be given. A significant amount
of time will be reserved for discussing each paper and their relations
to each other. The afternoon session is devoted to a working session
dedicated to open discussions of the presented contributions and other
topics suggested by the participants. The closing session is dedicated
to develop a plan to publish the results of the discussion in a final
workshop report. 

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Submission and Publication 
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The following types of submissions are solicited: 

- Research papers (up to 8 pages) 
- Short papers (up to 4 pages) 

As contributions, we expect early research results about the
aforementioned topics, descriptions of problems, case studies,
experience reports or solutions related to the topics of interest. We
also strongly encourage the submission of comparative studies and
benchmarks of existing approaches in one of the topics. Short papers can
also describe tool demonstrations or position papers. 

Papers that describe use cases or novel approaches can be accompanied by
concrete artifacts, such as models (requirements, design, analysis,
transformation, composition, etc.), stored in a public repository.
Artifacts should illustrate any experience on the conjoint use of
different modeling languages. 

All submissions have to follow the the IEEE format
(https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html [2]) and
must be submitted electronically in PDF format via Easychair
(https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mle2019 [3]). 

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 the validity and
the 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. 

The accepted papers will be published as IEEE online proceedings and
indexed in DBLP and Scopus. 

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Important Dates 
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- Abstract submission deadline: June 28, 2019 
- Paper submission deadline: July 5, 2019 
- Notification of acceptance: July 28, 2019 
- Workshop: September 2019 

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Organization committee 
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- Erwan Bousse, University of Nantes, France 
- Julien Deantoni, University of Nice, France 
- Romina Eramo, University of L'Aquila, Italy 
- Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA 
- Ed Seidewitz, Model Driven Solutions, USA 

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Program Committee 
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- Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University 
- Manuel Wimmer, Johannes Kepler University Linz 
- Hans Vangheluwe, University of Antwerp and McGill University 
- Mark Van Den Brand, Eindhoven University of Technology 
- Gunter Mussbacher, McGill University 
- Safouan Taha, CentraleSupelec 
- Tony Clark, Aston University 
- Florian Noyrit, CEA LIST 
- Matthias Schöttle, McGill University 
- Hugo Bruneliere, NaoMod Team (IMT Atlantique & LS2N - CNRS) 
- Benoit Combemale, University of Toulouse & Inria 
- Jean-Michel Bruel, IRIT 
- Steffen Zschaler, King's College London 
- (to be completed) 
 

Links:
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[1] http://gemoc.org/events/mle2019
[2] https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
[3] https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mle2019
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