The 10th Workshop on Domain-Specific Modeling

Reno/Tahoe, Nevada, USA
17-18 October 2010, 8:30 am -17:00 pm, Central Pacific A, B & C
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Call for Papers

Domain-specific modeling (DSM) provides a modern solution to demands for higher productivity by constricting the gap between problem and solution modeling. In the past, productivity gains have been sought through new programming languages. Today, domain-specific modeling languages provide a viable solution for continuing to raise the level of abstraction beyond coding, making development faster and easier.

In DSM the models are constructed using concepts that represent things in the problem domain, not concepts of a given programming language. The modeling language follows the domain abstractions and semantics, allowing developers to perceive themselves as working directly with domain concepts. The models represent simultaneously the design, implementation and documentation of the system, which can be generated directly from them. In a number of cases the final products can be automatically generated from these high-level specifications with domain-specific code generators. This automation is possible because of domain-specificity: both the modeling language and code generators fit the requirements of a narrowly-defined domain, usually inside a single organization.

The workshop welcomes submissions that address Domain-Specific Modeling on practical or theoretical levels. Our main focus is on graphical domain-specific languages but we will also consider submissions on textual or other DSLs. Some of the issues that we would like to see addressed in this workshop are:

Important Dates

Initial submission:

August 10

Author Notification: 

mid-September (about one week before early registration deadline, Sept 16)

Final version:

September 30

Workshop:

October 17-18

Submission for SoSyM special issue: November 2010 (tentative)

Submission Information

The workshop welcomes four types of submissions:

  1. Full papers describing ideas on either a practical or theoretical level. Full papers should emphasize what is new and significant about the chosen approach and compare it to other work in the field.
  2. Experience reports on applying DSM. Papers should describe case studies and experience reports on the application, successes or shortcomings of DSM. The experiences can be related to language creation or use, tooling, or organizational issues, among others.
  3. Position papers describing work in progress or an author's position regarding current DSM practice.
  4. DSM demonstrations describing a particular language, generator, or tool for a particular domain. During the workshop, the DSM solution presented in the paper can be demonstrated to the participants.

Papers should be submitted by August 10, 2010. Contributions should be submitted electronically in PDF format via EasyChair. Submitted papers must conform to the ACM SIG Proceedings style - except that the copyright box on the first page must be removed (2-column, see templates). The maximum length of a submission is 6 pages.

The accepted papers will be published in the printed proceedings and posted on the workshop web site. An author of the paper will be expected to attend the workshop (registration as Workshop W8 via SPLASH - note that as a 2-day workshop it is in its own category. You are not obliged to attend SPLASH itself).

Selected papers will be invited to a special issue of Software and Systems Modeling.

Additional information

Additional information is available about the past workshops including papers, presentations, group work results and photos. For further questions please contact organizers (dsm10 _at_ dsmforum.org).

Program committee

Organizing committee