<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 3.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"></span></p><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 3px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Verdana; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 13px;"><b>Workshop on Model-Driven Engineering for </b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 3px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Verdana; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 13px;"><b>Networked Ambient Systems </b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 3px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Verdana; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0px; font-size: 13px;"><b>MDE4NAS</b></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 3px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Verdana; min-height: 19px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><br></font></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 3px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">To be held in conjunction with the 3rd International Conference on Ambient Systems, Networks and Technologies (<a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-12/"><span style="font: 14.0px Arial; letter-spacing: 0.0px">ANT-2012</span></a>) </font></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 3px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Arial; "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">in Niagara Falls, Ontario, Canada, August 27-29, 2012.</font></font></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 3px; text-align: center; font: normal normal normal 14px/normal Verdana; color: rgb(21, 20, 144); "><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><a href="http://www.irit.fr/mde4nas"><font class="Apple-style-span" size="3">http://www.irit.fr/mde4nas</font></a></span></div><p></p><p style="text-align: center;margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 18px; margin-left: 3px; font: normal normal normal 12px/normal Verdana; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px; "><b>Call for papers</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 3.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Verdana">The proliferation of ubiquitous networked devices promises to bring to existence smart environments that deal with societal problems like assisted living, urban transportation, health care, education etc. A smart environment is composed of large numbers of basic bricks of different natures: computing nodes, sensors, actuators, networking, software components and services, etc. Eliciting the requirements and putting together the bricks of a smart environment can be a very challenging engineering problem.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 17.0px 3.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>Objectives</b></span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 3.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">This workshop will concentrate on the use of model-driven engineering (MDE) methods for specifying, building, integrating and deploying networked ambient systems. MDE has gained an increasing interest over the past few years, mainly because they allow for capturing architectural, functional and non-functional information about such complex systems in precise, domain-specific models. The techniques for manipulating such models, like model transformation, versioning or traceability have also improved significantly.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 3.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">The workshop will call for contributions in all areas related to MDE for ambient system, including but not limited to the following topics:</span></p>
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<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Ambient systems requirements modeling and elicitation </span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Integrated, multi-domain system modeling: architectural models, resource models, cyber-physical models, service models, etc.</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Semantics of models, refinement of system designs into hardware/software implementations, integration of system and software design models, non-functional aspects (such as performance, quality of service, real-time aspects, security, etc.)</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Model-driven tools for designing, analyzing and building ambient systems</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Model-driven engineering processes and methodologies for ambient systems</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Models-based deployment and management of ambient systems</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Model-driven variability and configuration for ambient systems</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Model-driven approaches in software product line engineering for ambient systems</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Use of models at run-time to monitor and manage ambient systems</span></li>
</ul><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 3.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">The application areas include, without being restricted to, the following: ambient assisted living (in particular for dependent persons), smart transportation, urban environments, manufacturing, hospitals, schools, power aware systems, etc.</span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 18.0px 3.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Papers with an industry perspective are particularly encouraged. An important aspect for such papers is the effectiveness of the modeling languages, tools and methods used, particularly if measurements can be quoted and/or compared with previous similar work. </span></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 17.0px 3.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>Submissions</b></span></p><div style="text-align: justify;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Submission are made via <a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mde4nas">the workshop's EasyChair submission site</a>. Submissions should be previously unpublished, written in English, and should follow the guidelines of ANT 2012 available at the following address : <a href="http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-12/#paperSubmissions">http://cs-conferences.acadiau.ca/ant-12/
#paperSubmissions</a> The MDE4NAS Program Committee will evaluate the technical contribution of each submission as well as its accessibility to the audience. Papers will be judged on significance, originality, substance, correctness, and clarity.</font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 3.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Verdana">Accepted papers must be presented at MDE4NAS by one of the authors. </p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 3.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Verdana">Papers accepted and presented at MDE4NAS will be published in the ANT 2012 proceedings volume by Elsevier Science.</p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 3.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Verdana"><br></p><p style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 17.0px 3.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px"><b>Important dates</b></span></p>
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<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Paper submission deadline : February 20, 2012</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 8.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Notification of acceptance : April 10, 2012</span></li>
<li style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; text-align: justify; font: 12.0px Verdana"><span style="letter-spacing: 0.0px">Camera-ready copy deadline : May 10, 2012</span></li>
</ul><div style="text-align: justify;"><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><b><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Programme Committee </font></b></div><div><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font><table border="0" style="position: static; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Daniel Amyot</font></td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">University of Ottawa, Canada</font></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Bruno Bouchard</font></td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada</font></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Abdenour Bouzouane</font></td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada</font></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Ruth Breu</font></td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">University of Innsbruck, Austria</font></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Jean-Michel Bruel</font></td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Université de Toulouse, France</font></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Laurence Duchien</font></td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Université de Lille, France</font></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Joachim Fischer</font></td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany</font></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Roch Glitho</font></td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Concordia University, Canada</font></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Reihnard Gotzhein<br>Bharat Jayaraman</font></td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">University of Kaiserslautern, Germany<br>University at Buffalo (SUNY), USA</font></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Ahmed Karmouch</font></td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">University of Ottawa, Canada</font></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Ferhat Khendek</font></td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Concordia University, Canada</font></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Frank Alexander Kraemer</font></td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">NTNU, Norway</font></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Bob Ménélas</font></td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Canada</font></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Iulian Ober</font></td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Université de Toulouse, France</font></td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Jean-Yves Tigli<br>Agustinus Borgy Waluyo</font></td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana">Université de Nice, France<br>Monash University, Australia</font></td></tr></tbody></table><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><br></font></div><div><div style="text-align: justify; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><b>Organizers</b><br><br></font><div style="text-align: justify; "><font class="Apple-style-span" face="Verdana"><div><table border="0" style="position: static; color: rgb(64, 64, 64); z-index: auto; "><tbody><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; ">Iulian Ober</td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; ">Université de Toulouse, France</td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; ">Jean-Michel Bruel</td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; ">Université de Toulouse, France</td></tr><tr><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; ">Ferhat Khendek</td><td style="vertical-align: top; padding-right: 20px; ">Concordia University, Canada</td></tr></tbody></table></div><div><div style="text-align: justify; "><b><br></b></div></div><div style="text-align: justify; "><b><br></b></div></font></div></div></div></body></html>