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Subject: CFP - SCI 2004 - MDD Date: Friday 16 January 2004 12:02 From: "Tilo Dickopp" dickopp@wifo.uni-mannheim.de To: Gustaf.Neumann@wu-wien.ac.at
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FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS
************************************************** *** Invited Session "Model-Driven Development" *** **************************************************
At the 8th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics (SCI 2004)
July 18-21, 2004 - Orlando, Florida, USA
IMPORTANT DATES:
March 7th, 2004: Submission deadline March 14th, 2004: Acceptance notification March 31st, 2004: Camera-ready papers due: hard copies and electronic versions. July 18th-21st, 2004: SCI Multi-Conference, including Invited Session on MDD
SESSION HOMEPAGE:
http://www.wifo.uni-mannheim.de/MDD2004/
SCOPE:
Model-Driven Development (MDD) is the next step in raising the levels of abstraction in software development. MDD promises a more transparent and simplified software development process. This is achieved by putting different kinds of models and automated code generation based on those models in the center of attention. Although there are some very prominent representatives of MDD, such as OMG's UML- based MDA initiative, MDD technologies and tools are still new and real world applications are rare. The goal of this session is to focus on the problems and solutions that arise from the adoption of MDD techniques on a broad theoretical and practical scope.
TOPICS:
Relevant topics include but are not limited to:
* State of the art of MDD technologies and tools * Migration of legacy applications to MDD * Issues of MDD modeling techniques and notations, such as UML * Performance and other issues of automatically generated code * Model to model transformations * OMG's Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) * Design and reusability of domain-specific models * Use of classic technologies for code generation (e.g. XSLT) in conjunction with MDD * Empirical validation of the benefits of MDD * State of the practice reports
In order to promote the exchange between research and practice this session is not limited to theoretical work. Submissions can be pure research, experience reports, or combinations of both. Papers must describe original work and must not have been accepted or submitted for publication elsewhere.
SUBMISSION, EVALUATION PROCESS, AND PUBLICATION:
You are invited to submit a PDF-version of a draft paper (2000-5000 words) to the session organizers T. Dickopp (dickopp@wifo3.uni-mannheim.de) or A. Korthaus (korthaus@uni-mannheim.de) by the due date. Camera-ready papers should be formatted in IEEE style. Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.
The first page of the draft paper should include title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, and fax number for each author. The first page should also include the name of the author who will be presenting the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of five keywords.
Papers will be evaluated for originality, significance, clarity, and soundness. Two researchers in the topical area will referee each paper. One person will review the camera- ready papers.
The best 10% of the regular conference papers, according to the reviewers, will be published in SCI Journal. Invited, non-peer reviewed papers, might also be accepted considering the CV of the author(s). Some of these invited papers, if chosen by the session chair as the best paper of the session, might also be published in SCI Journal, because the 30% of sessions' best papers will also be published in the journal. All accepted papers, which should not exceed six single-spaced typed pages, will be published by means of paper and electronic proceedings.
WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS AND INVITED SESSION WEB PAGE:
* Tilo Dickopp, Department of Information Systems, University of Mannheim, Schloss, D-68131 Mannheim, Germany, dickopp@wifo3.uni-mannheim.de
* Axel Korthaus, Department of Information Systems, University of Mannheim, Schloss, D-68131 Mannheim, Germany, korthaus@uni-mannheim.de
Updated information about this invited session can be found at the following web page: http://www.wifo.uni-mannheim.de/MDD2004/.
MAIN CONFERENCE CONTACT:
More details, e.g. regarding conference fees, audio-visual equipment etc., can be found at the main conference web page: http://www.iiisci.org/sci2004/. If by any reasons you are not able to access the page mentioned above, please, try the following page: http://www.iiis.org/sci2004/. Answers to specific questions can also be requested by e-mail.
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