<div dir="ltr"><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">*** CALL FOR PAPERS ***</span><br></div><div><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Software Quality Journal</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Special issue call for papers</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Quality in Model-Driven Engineering (QMDE)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Guest Editors:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Marjan</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"> Mernik, University of Maribor, Slovenia (</span><a href="mailto:marjan.mernik@uni-mb.si" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span class="" style="background-color:rgb(255,255,204);color:rgb(34,34,34)">marjan</span>.mernik@uni-mb.si</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Vasco Amaral, FCT-UNL, Portugal (</span><a href="mailto:vasco.amaral@fct.unl.pt" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">vasco.amaral@fct.unl.pt</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Model-driven engineering (MDE) refers to a range of approaches where models play a core role in software development. Modeling promotes reasoning at higher level of abstraction, therefore reducing complexity of software development, while hiding the unnecessary low level details at appropriate stages, and promoting communication among the several stakeholders in the development process. MDE initiatives make claims of increased quality and productivity by separating business and application logic from underlying platform technology, transforming models to other models and automating code generation. However, while quality assurance is a well-known topic in “traditional” Software Engineering, less is known on how to assess quality across the MDE lifecycle. We should understand not only how to measure the quality of the MDE process (and determine if it is better than other approaches), but also to understand the quality of the models themselves (determining metrics for both models and metamodels’ quality, design patterns, and anti-patterns).</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Scope: This special issue is the proper place to share mature research, ground-breaking ideas, and experience reports in QMDE. This issue welcomes all submissions that fall in the referred domain, where topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- State-of-the art of QMDE: approaches and tools</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Evidences and Case Studies of quality achievement with MDE</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Quality assessment in MDE (of both model instances, metamodels)</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Impact of Model and Metamodel Design Patterns and anti-patterns in MDE</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Sound and agile validation of requirements</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Achieving Quality by Model-Based Testing techniques</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Quality in the automatic code generation and Model transformations</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Promoting non-opportunistic reuse of components</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- Quality of Models and correlation with the Quality of the corresponding Product</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">- QMDE Education</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Important Dates:</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Submission Deadline: 30 November 2014</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">First Reviews: 30 January 2015</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Post Review Submission Deadline: 30 April 2015</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Acceptance Notification: 30 June 2015</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Camera-ready Paper Deadline: 30 August 2015</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Website: </span><a href="http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/SQJO_CfP_QMDE.pdf" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://www.springer.com/cda/<u></u>content/document/cda_<u></u>downloaddocument/SQJO_CfP_<u></u>QMDE.pdf</a><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Paper Submission</span><br style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">Authors are encouraged to submit high-quality, original work that has neither appeared in, nor is under consideration by, other journals. If an earlier version of this work has been published then this submission must be at least 30% different and the authors should explain in the introduction the delta between this new paper and the prior version. Papers should be submitted to the special issue through Editorial Manager </span><a href="http://sqjo.edmgr.com/" target="_blank" style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">http://sqjo.edmgr.com</a><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px">, selecting the article type "Special Issue: Quality in Model Driven Engineering".</span><span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><br></span></div><div><br></div>
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