Graphical Modeling Language Development

Call For Papers

Models play an important role in software development. They not only support communication and understanding, but are increasingly used in automating software development tasks such as code generation, testing, simulation and analysis. While many languages are created for software developers others may be created for business analysts, interaction specialists, test engineers, or persons responsible for product configuration and deployment. Often these languages are domain-specific, created for a narrow application area or for use only inside one company.

This workshop looks at principles of modeling language development, particularly graphical modeling languages for domain-specific needs. We seek contributions that are backed up by experiences on developing modeling languages. We do not focus on tools, but recognize the need for metamodel-based tools, which significantly ease the production of modeling environments. These tools also enable experimentation with the language as it is built, and remove the burden of tool creation and maintenance from the language creator.

The workshop welcomes submissions that address the development of graphical modeling languages. We are looking for submissions that cover all the phases of language development, including definition, testing, evaluation, and maintenance of modeling languages. We also welcome papers that discuss challenges and new trends. Some of the issues that we would like to see addressed in this workshop are experience-based findings on:

• Approaches to identify language concepts
• Tradeoffs between different language structures
• Processes for language definition
• Language structures that minimize the modeling need (and modeling time)
• Keeping models compact, consistent, reusable
• Testing modeling languages
• Creating notations for models, error annotation, different usage situations etc.
• Ways to integrate modeling languages
• Demonstration of modeling languages (and their related tooling, generators etc).

Important dates

Submission information

Papers should be submitted by April 16, 2012. Contributions should be submitted electronically via EasyChair. Submitted papers must conform to the LNCS style in LaTeX or MS Word. The maximum length of a submission is 12 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 participant via ECMFA 2012, either for the workshop or for the whole conference).

Program committee

• Matthias Biehl, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
• Michel Bourdellès, THALES 
• Ulrich Frank, University of Duisburg-Essen 
• Jeff Gray, University of Alabama 
• Kenji Hisazumi, Kyushu University 
• Emilio Insfran, Universitat Politècnica de València 
• Teemu Kanstren, VTT 
• Steven Kelly, MetaCase 
• Christian Kreiner, Technical University of Graz 
• Ivan Lukovic, University of Novi Sad 
• Vojislav B. Mišic, Ryerson University 
• Pedro Sánchez Palma, Technical University of Cartagena 
• Andreas Prinz, University of Agder 
• Mark-Oliver Reiser, Technical University of Berlin 
• Keng Siau, University of Nebraska-Lincoln 
• Jonathan Sprinkle, University of Arizona 
• Stefan Strecker, University of Hagen 
• Alain Wegmann, EPFL Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology 
• Markus Völter, Independent

Organizing committee

• Heiko Kern, University of Leipzig
• Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, MetaCase
• Paolo Bottoni, University of Roma