[fg-arc] CFP − International Workshop on Modeling Language Engineering (MLE 2022) − co-located with MODELS 2022

[Erwan BOUSSE]

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Call for Papers:
International Workshop on Modeling Language Engineering (MLE)
co-located with MODELS 2022,
23-25 October, 2022,
Montréal, Canada
https://mleworkshop.github.io/editions/mle2022
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About the conference
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Software-intensive systems are complicated, driven by the need to 
integrate across multiple concerns. Consequently, the development of 
such systems requires the integration of different concerns and skills. 
These concerns can be covered by different domain-specific modeling 
languages, with specific concepts, technologies, and abstraction levels. 
This multiplication of languages eases the development related to each 
individual specific concern but raises language and technology 
integration problems at the different stages of the software life cycle. 
To reason about the global system as a whole, it is necessary to 
explicitly describe the different kinds of relationships that exist 
between the different languages used in its development. To support 
effective language integration, there is a pressing need to reify and 
classify these relationships, as well as the language interactions that 
the relationships enable. Equally, the proliferation of domain-specific 
modeling languages required increases the need for effective and 
efficient techniques for engineering languages and their support 
infrastructures (transformations, analysis tools, editors, execution 
infrastructure, debuggers, …).

The Modeling Language Engineering (MLE) workshop aims at bringing 
together researchers and practitioners working on modeling-language and 
software-language engineering. It is a meeting opportunity for Software 
Language Engineering (SLE) enthusiasts within the software-modeling 
community.

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Topics
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The topics of interest for MLE 2022 include:


- Methodologies, languages, techniques, and methods for designing and 
implementing modeling languages
- Composition, extension, and reuse of modeling languages and model 
execution tools
- Heterogeneous modeling, simulation, and execution
- Customization of modeling languages
- Integration of 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
- Tracing model executions and analyzing model execution traces
- Model execution tools for the (dynamic) validation, verification, and 
testing of systems (e.g., model animation, debugging, simulation, trace 
exploration, model checking, symbolic execution)
- Live modeling and exploratory modeling techniques
- Automation techniques for the development of modeling and 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)
- Integration challenges for languages, from requirements to design, for 
analysis and simulation, during runtime, etc.
- Case studies and experience reports on the successful or failed 
adoption of modeling in different application domains and application 
contexts
- Surveys and benchmarks of different approaches for the development of 
modeling languages, model execution, and execution-based model analysis

Submissions describing practical and industrial experience related to 
the use of modeling languages are also encouraged, particularly in the 
following application domains:
Cyber-Physical Systems, Smart Manufacturing, Industry 4.0;  Internet of 
Services, Internet of Things; Smart City, Smart Building, Home 
automation; Smart and Learning systems.

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Workshop Format
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This full-day workshop will prioritize discussions over presentations. 
We plan to open with a keynote in the morning, followed by paper 
presentations. The afternoon will then be spent primarily in discussions 
inspired by topics raised by the keynotes and paper presentations.  
Where there is sufficient divergence in the topics raised, we will 
create break-out groups of participants interested in each sub-topic. 
The goal of these discussions is to identify commonalities and 
connections between different topics, support research networking, 
cross-pollination, and informal knowledge transfer. The final session of 
the workshop will be focused on summarising the key topics and ideas 
discussed at the workshop to help identify the next steps that may be 
followed up by workshop participants.


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Submission and Publication
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We expect early research results about the aforementioned topics, 
descriptions of problems, case studies, experience reports, or solutions 
related to the topics of interest.

Each contribution must be described in a short paper of 5 pages or a 
full paper of 10 pages, in ACM format (acmart). Two more pages 
containing only references are permitted.

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 with the conjoint use of 
different modeling languages.

All submissions have to follow the ACM format (acmart) and must be 
submitted electronically in PDF format [via 
Easychair](https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=mle2022). They will 
be evaluated by at least three members of the program committee 
regarding novelty, correctness, significance, readability, and 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 included in the joint workshop 
proceedings published in the ACM Digital Library and indexed in DBLP and 
Scopus.



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Important Dates
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- Abstract submission deadline: July 13, 2022
- Paper submission deadline: July 20, 2022
- Notification of acceptance: August 19, 2022
- Camera-ready deadline: August 26, 2022


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Organization committee
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- Erwan Bousse (Nantes University)
- Faezeh Khorram (IMT Atlantique)
- Juha-Pekka Tolvanen (MetaCase)


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Program Committee
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