[DL] Extended Deadline MDAFA 2004: [April 24, 2004]

[Uwe Assmann]

       [Please accept my apologies for multiple copies]
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            [Extended Deadline: April 24, 2004]

                    Final Call for Papers 
 Model Driven Architecture®: Foundations and Applications (MDAFA 2004)
           http://www.ida.liu.se/~henla/mdafa2004
                     June 10-11, 2004
                Linköping University, Sweden

                       organized by:
  Research Center for Integrational Software Engineering (RISE)
                Linköping University, Sweden
                
Model Driven Architecture® is an initiative of the Object Management Group (OMG)

          Supported by the Object Management Group (OMG)

   Special session on Profiles for Embedded and Real-Time Systems
         Special session on Profiles for the Semantic Web 

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Model-Driven Architecture (MDA®) is an initiative proposed by the 
Object Management Group (OMG, http://www.omg.org) for platform-generic 
software development.

MDA separates the specification of system functionality from the
specification of the implementation on a specific platform. It is aimed at 
making the software assets more resilient to changes caused by the emerging 
technologies and makes the role of modeling and models in the current 
software development much more important. The MDA initiative covers a wide 
spectrum of research areas. Some of them are already well established and 
some are newly emerged. Further efforts are required to bring them into a 
coherent approach based on open standards and supported by matured tools and 
techniques. The goal of this workshop is to understand the 
foundations, to analyze the state of-the-art, to identify problems and 
solutions, to outline future research directions and to share experience 
in applying MDA techniques and tools.

Topics of Interest:

* Modelling and MDA
  - Formal modelling of aspects of MDA
  - Ontologies and domain-specific models
  - Meta modeling and meta models for PIMs and PSMs
  - Model composition
  - MDA profiles
* MDA development process
  - Aspect-oriented modeling and MDA
  - MDA and Agile - a contradition?
  - Variability  in MDA
* MDA technologies (UML®, OCL, XMI®)
  - Model transformations: foundations and heuristics
  - Graph rewrite systems for MDA
  - Executability of MDA models
  - Code generation based on UML profiles
  - Roundtrip Engineering and its automation 
* Model analysis in MDA 
  - Model validation and model checking
* MDA tools
* Application areas
  - MDA for embedded and real-time systems
  - MDA for component platforms, such as EJB or .NET
  - Experience reports
  - Case studies
  
Special session: MDA and the Semantic Web
  (Supported by REWERSE EU Network of Excellence) 
* MDA for Web Services
* Ontologies and their relation to profiles
* OCL vs. OWL - the big competition?
* Executable logic specifications 

Special session  MDA for embedded and real-time systems 
  (Supported by HIDOORS EU IST project) 
* MDA for embedded and real-time systems



Submission Details:

Two types of papers are expected: extended abstract papers (no longer than 4
pages) and full papers (no longer than 15 pages). Accepted short and full
papers will be included in a technical report available at the workshop.

It is planned to publish the full papers and selected short papers after the
workshop in an LNCS volume from Springer. The final approval is
pending and depends on the number of submitted high-quality
papers. Preferably, papers should respect the LNCS format.
After the workshop, authors will be given the opportunity to submit
an improved version of their papers. We expect a final decision on the LNCS
volume in May.


Invited Speakers:

Fred Waskiewicz, OMG Director of Standards, OMG,  "MDA 2004: A Report on Current Work and Future Development"

Sean Bechhofer, University of Manchester, author of the OilEd ontology 
editor and the Hoolet OWL reasoner: "OWL - an ontology language 
for the Semantic Web".



Important Dates:

Submission April 24, 2004  (extended)
Notification of Acceptance: May 17, 2004
Camera-ready copy due: May 26, 2004
Date: June 10-11, 2004. 

You can combine the workshop easily with WICSA-4 
(June 12-14) and Ecoop 2004 (June 14-18), both located in Oslo.


Supported By:


- The Object Management Group (OMG), http://www.omg.org

- The REWERSE Network of Excellence of the European 6th framework programme 
(Reasoning on the web), http://www.rewerse.net

- The HIDOORS EU project (High Integrity Distributed Object-Oriented Real-Time Systems),
http://www.hidoors.org

Model-Driven Architecture, MDA, UML, XMI, and their corresponding logos are 
registered trademarks or trademarks of the Object Management Group, Inc. 
in the United States, in the European Union, and in other countries.



Organization:

Program Chair
Uwe Assmann, University of Linköping, Sweden, uweas at ida.liu.se

Organizing Chair
Henrik Larsson University of Linköping, Sweden, henla at ida.liu.se



Program Committee:

Mehmet Aksit, University of Twente, the Netherlands
Jesper Andersson, University of Växjö, Sweden
Uwe Assmann, University of Linköping, Sweden
Klaas van den Berg, University of Twente, the Netherlands
Jorn Bettin, SoftMetaWare
Jean Bezivin, University of Nantes, France
Jan Bosch, University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Francois Bry, Munich University, Coordinator of the REWERSE Network 
Paul Clements, Software Engineering Institute, USA
Krzysztof Czarnecki, University of Waterloo,  Canada
Pär Emanuelson, Ericsson, Sweden
Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn, Germany
Peter Fritzson, University of Linköping, Sweden
James Hunt, FZI Karlsruhe and Aicas, Germany
Reiner Hähnle, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Jean-Marc Jezequel, IRISA, France
Christoph Kessler, University of Linköping, Sweden
Anneke Kleppe, Klasse Objecten, the Netherlands
Antonio Kung, Trialog, Paris, France
Tom Mens, University of Mons-Hainaut, Belgium
Zebo Peng, University of Linköping, Sweden
Arend Rensink, University of Twente
Georg Strobl, R.O.S.E. informatics, Germany
Kristian Sandahl, University of Linköping, Sweden
Bedir Tekinerdogan, University of Twente, the Netherlands
Klaus Wachsmuth, Aonix, Germany
Gerd Wagner, Technical University Eindhoven 
Andrew Watson, Vice President and Technical Director at OMG
Kasper Österbye, Copenhagen, Denmark