[ecoop-info] CfP: 4th International Workshop on Multi-Paradigm Modeling MPM'10 at MODELS 2010

[Cecile Hardebolle]

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Call for Papers
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MPM'10 - 4th International Workshop on Multi-Paradigm Modeling
October 3rd, 2010
Oslo, Norway

Web: http://avalon.aut.bme.hu/mpm10/
CfP: http://avalon.aut.bme.hu/mpm10/MPM10-CFP.pdf

In conjunction with MODELS Conference,
October 3-8, 2010
Oslo, Norway
http://modelsconference.org/
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Scope of the Workshop:
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Computational modeling has become the norm in industry to remain 
competitive and be successful. As such, Model-Based Design of embedded 
software has enterprise-wise implications and modeling is not limited to 
isolated uses by a single engineer or team. Instead, it has reached a 
proliferation much akin to large software design, with requirements for 
infrastructure support such as version control, configuration 
management, and automated processing.

The comprehensive use of models in design has created a set of 
challenges beyond that of supporting one isolated design task. In 
particular, the need to combine, couple, and integrate models at 
different levels of abstraction and in different formalisms is posing a 
set of specific problems that the field of Computer Automated 
Multiparadigm Modeling (CAMPaM) is aiming to address.

The essential element of multiparadigm modeling is the use of explicit 
and heterogeneous models throughout. This leads to a framework with 
omnipresent models. Some represent the syntax of formalisms used for 
modeling, others are used to model the transformations that represent 
the operational semantics, as well as model-to-model transformations for 
inter-formalism transformation. Moreover, others are used to model the 
composition of models or even to model the composition of modeling 
formalisms. These models are then used to facilitate generative tasks in 
a language engineering space, such as evolving a domain specific 
modeling formalism as its requirements change, but also in a tool 
engineering space, such as automatic generation of integrated 
development environments. The use of ubiquitous explicit models during 
the whole system design process, from modeling formalism definition to 
system implementation, allows multiple types of analyses at various 
levels with great benefits in terms of performance, cost-effectiveness, 
safety, etc.

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and 
practitioners in the area of Multi-Paradigm Modeling in order to 
identify possible points of synergy, common problems and solutions, tool 
building aspects and visions for the future of the area.

Topics of interest include, but not limited to:
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- Applications (of current MPM techniques and tools and test/validate it);
- Language Engineering (and modeling Language Engineering);
- Usability (and modeling Usability) of MPM tools and models;
- Model Transformation (and modeling Transformations);
- Language Composition;
- (Meta)Model Evolution;
- Multi-View Modeling;
- Model Exchange, Debugging, Testing and Consistency;
- Visualization of Multi-Paradigm Models;
- MPM Education;
- Multi-Abstraction.

Important dates:
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Paper submission deadline: July 31, 2010
Notification of acceptance: September 5, 2010
Camera-ready papers due: September 12, 2010

Submission procedure:
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Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF via 
http://avalon2.aut.bme.hu/mpm10/.
Papers should not exceed twelve (12) pages and follow the style 
available at the workshop web site.

Papers will be peer reviewed. Accepted papers will be published in the 
workshop proceedings, which will take the form of an issue of the 
Electronic Communications of the EASST journal (indexed by DBLP).
Extended versions of the best two papers will be published in the LNCS 
series of Springer.

Programm Comittee:
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Antonio Vallecillo, Universidad de Málaga
Bernhard Westfechtel, University of Bayreuth
Chris Paredis, Georgia Tech
Christophe Jacquet, Supélec
Dirk Deridder, Free University of Brussels
Esther Guerra, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Frédéric Boulanger, Supélec
Franck Fleurey, SINTEF
Gabriela Nicolescu, Polytechnique Montréal
Hessam Sarjoughian, Arizona State University
Holger Giese, Hasso-Plattner-Institut
Ingolf H. Kruger, University of California
Jeff Gray, University of Alabama
Jonathan Sprinkle, University of Arizona
José Luis Martín, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Laurent Safa, Silver Egg Technology
Levi Lúcio, University of Luxembourg
Luís Pedro, D'Auriol Assets
Manuel Wimmer, Vienna University of Technology
Mark Minas, University of the Federal Armed Forces
Martin Toerngren, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
Mirko Conrad, The MathWorks
Pieter van Gorp, Eindhoven University of Technology
Peter Bunus, Linkoping University
Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester
Stefan Van Baelen, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Thomas Feng, Oracle
Thomas Kuhne, Technical University Darmstadt

Organizing committee:
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Vasco Amaral, Universidade Nova de Lisboa
Hans Vangheluwe, McGill University
Cécile Hardebolle, Supélec
László Lengyel, Budapest Univ. of Technology and Economics

Steering committee:
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Juan de Lara, U. Autonoma de Madrid
Gabor Karsai, Vanderbilt University
Pieter J. Mosterman, The MathWorks Inc.
Tihamér Levendovszky, Vanderbilt Univ.