Call for Papers

is sponsored by INSTICC – Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication

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The purpose of the International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development is to provide a platform for researchers, engineers, academics as well as industrial professionals from all over the world to present their research results and development activities in using models and model driven engineering techniques for Software Development. Model-Driven Development (MDD) is an approach to the development of IT systems in which models take a central role, not only for analysis of these systems but also for their construction. MDD has emerged from modelling initiatives, most prominently the Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) fostered by the Object Management Group (OMG). In the scope of MDA, a couple of technologies have been developed that became the cornerstones of MDD, like metamodelling and model transformations. MDD relies on languages for defining metamodels, like the Meta-Object Facility (MOF) and Ecore (developed in the scope of the Eclipse Modelling Framework), and transformation specification languages like QVT and ATL.
MDD is already around for some years and is about to become commodity in software development due to its benefits (reduction on development costs, improvement of software quality, reduction of maintenance costs and the support for controlled evolution of IT systems). MDD has also been applied in many application areas, such as real-time and embedded systems, and telecommunication systems, and, more recently, to the development and integration of enterprise information systems. However, the MDD research community is wishing to explore the bounds of MDD, by investigating new applications areas and combinations with other emerging technologies, like, for example, pervasive context-aware systems, semantic web, semantic web services, service-oriented architecture, ontologies and cloud computing. This conference aims at fostering the further development and application of MDD techniques for software systems.
Papers describing advanced prototypes, systems, tools and techniques and general survey papers indicating future directions are also encouraged. Papers reporting on original work in any of the areas listed below are welcome. Accepted papers, presented at the conference by one of the authors, will be published in the Proceedings of MODELSWARD. The submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three experts in this area, and acceptance will be based on quality, relevance and originality. The conference is open to full research and (short) work-in-progress papers. Sessions are planned for both oral and poster presentations.

CONFERENCE AREAS

Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas:

1. METHODOLOGIES, PROCESSES AND PLATFORMS
2. APPLICATIONS AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT
3. MODELING LANGUAGES, TOOLS AND ARCHITECTURES

AREA 1: METHODOLOGIES, PROCESSES AND PLATFORMS

Agile Model-Driven Development
Business Process Modeling
Frameworks for Model-Driven Development
Multi-level and Multi-view Modeling
Model Transformations and Generative Approaches
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Modeling Support
Software Process Modeling, Enactment and Execution
Systems Engineering

AREA 2: APPLICATIONS AND SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT

Component-Based Software Engineering
Data Mining Applications
Model-Driven Software Product Lines
Executable UML
Automated Code Generation
Model Execution and Simulation
Model Quality
Model-Based Testing and Validation
Model Management
Modeling for AI Applications
Model-Driven Development of Cyber Physical Systems

AREA 3: MODELING LANGUAGES, TOOLS AND ARCHITECTURES

Constraint Modeling and Languages
Domain-Specific Modeling
General-Purpose Modeling Languages and Standards
Metamodeling: Foundations and Tools
Model Transformation
Model-Driven Architecture
Reasoning about Models
Model-Driven Software and Services Infrastructures
Syntax and Semantics of Modeling Languages

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS

Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Ralf Lämmel, University of Koblenz, Germany
Jim Logan, Director of Semantic Technologies & Interoperability at No Magic, Inc., United States

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors can submit their work in the form of a complete paper or an abstract, but please note that accepted abstracts are presented but not published in the proceedings of the conference. Complete papers can be submitted as a Regular Paper, representing completed and validated research, or as a Position Paper, portraying a short report of work in progress or an arguable opinion about an issue discussing ideas, facts, situations, methods, procedures or results of scientific research focused on one of the conference topic areas.

Authors should submit a paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, addressing one or several of the conference areas or topics. Each paper should clearly indicate the nature of its technical/scientific contribution, and the problems, domains or environments to which it is applicable. To facilitate the double-blind paper evaluation method, authors are kindly requested to produce and provide the paper WITHOUT any reference to any of the authors, including the authors’ personal details, the acknowledgments section of the paper and any other reference that may disclose the authors’ identity.

When submitting a complete paper please note that only original papers should be submitted. Authors are advised to read INSTICC's ethical norms regarding plagiarism and self-plagiarism thoroughly before submitting and must make sure that their submissions do not substantially overlap work which has been published elsewhere or simultaneously submitted to a journal or another conference with proceedings. Papers that contain any form of plagiarism will be rejected without reviews.

All papers must be submitted through the online submission platform PRIMORIS and should follow the instructions and templates that can be found under Guidelines and Templates. After the paper submission has been successfully completed, authors will receive an automatic confirmation e-mail.

PUBLICATIONS

All accepted complete papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on digital support.
SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper on our digital library is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier).
The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, Google Scholar, DBLP, Semantic Scholar, Microsoft Academic, EI and Web of Science / Conference Proceedings Citation Index.

IMPORTANT DATES

Conference Date: 8 - 10 February, 2021

Regular Papers

Paper Submission: October 6, 2020 (expired)
Authors Notification: November 12, 2020 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: November 26, 2020 (expired)

Position Papers

Paper Submission: November 5, 2020 (expired)
Authors Notification: December 4, 2020 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: December 18, 2020 (expired)

Late-Breaking

Paper Submission: November 26, 2020 (expired)
Authors Notification: December 18, 2020 (expired)
Camera Ready and Registration: December 28, 2020 (expired)

Workshops

Workshop Proposal: September 23, 2020 (expired)

Special Sessions

Special Session Proposal: September 23, 2020 (expired)

Tutorials

Tutorial Proposal: December 17, 2020 (expired)

Demos

Demo Proposal: December 17, 2020 (expired)

Panels

Panel Proposal: December 17, 2020 (expired)

Abstracts

Abstract Submission: December 9, 2020 (expired)

Authors Notification: December 22, 2020 (expired)

Camera Ready and Registration: January 5, 2021 (expired)

Post Publicationss

Authors Notification: February 19, 2021 (expired)

Camera Ready and Registration: May 17, 2021 (expired)

SECRETARIAT

MODELSWARD Secretariat
Address: Avenida de S. Francisco Xavier, Lote 7 Cv. C
2900-616 Setúbal - Portugal
Tel.: +351 265 520 185
Fax: +351 265 520 186
e-mail: modelsward.secretariat@insticc.org
Web: https://modelsward.scitevents.org

CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Edwin Seidewitz, Model Driven Solutions, United States
Richard Soley (honorary), Object Management Group, Inc., United States

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS

Slimane Hammoudi, Computer Science Department, ESEO, ERIS, France
Luís Ferreira Pires, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Twente, Netherlands

PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

Bülent M. Adak, ASELSAN AŞ, Aselsan A.S., Turkey
Ludovic Apvrille, Telecom Paris, France
Ethem Arkin, Hacettepe University, Turkey
Marco Autili, Department of Information Engineering Computer Science and Mathematics, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Omar Badreddin, 6115 Escondido driveUnit 28B, University of Texas El Paso, United States
Stamatia Bibi, University of Western Macedonia, Greece
Juan Boubeta-Puig, Computer Science and Engineering, University of Cádiz, Spain
Christian Bunse, University of Applied Sciences Stralsund, Germany
Olena Chebanyuk, software engineering, National Aviation University, Ukraine
Yuting Chen, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China
Dickson Chiu, Faculty of Education, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Antonio Cicchetti, Innovation, Design, and Engineering (IDT), Malardalen University, Sweden
Andrea D'Ambrogio, Dip. Ingegneria dell'Impresa, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy
Guglielmo De Angelis, IASI-CNR, Italy
Giovanni Denaro, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy
Dimitris Dranidis, Computer Science Department, CITY College, University of York Europe Campus, Greece
Sophie Ebersold, FSL / SM@RT, IRIT, France
Holger Eichelberger, Universität Hildesheim, Germany
Achiya Elyasaf, Software and Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University, Israel
Andrea Enrici, Nokia Bell Labs, France
Vladimir Estivill-Castro, Departament de Tecnologies de la Informació i les Comunicacions, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Spain
Stephan Flake, S&N CQM Consulting & Services GmbH, Germany
Paola Giannini, Computer Science Institute, DiSSTE, University of Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Fabian Gilson, Computer Science and Software Engineering, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
Christiane Gresse von Wangenheim, Computer Science, UFSC - Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
Alex Groce, School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber-Systems, Northern Arizona University, United States
Klaus Havelund, Laboratory for Reliable Software, Nasa/Jet Propulsion Laboratory, United States
Pingaud Hervé, Healthcare Computer Science, Institut National Universitaire Champollion, France
Marianne Huchard, LIRMM UMR 5506 Bâtiment 4, Université de Montpellier, France
Emilio Insfran, Departamento de Sistemas Informaticos y Computacion (DSIC), Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain
Ludovico Iovino, Computer Science, Gran Sasso Science institute, Italy
Maria Jose Escalona, Languages And Computer Sciences, University of Seville, Spain
Alexander Kamkin, Software Engineering, ISPRAS, Russian Federation
Guy Katz, Computer Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Alexey Khoroshilov, ISPRAS, Russian Federation
Jun Kong, Computer Science, North Dakota State University, United States
Pierre Laforcade, LIUM, France
Kevin Lano, Department of Informatics, King’s College London, United Kingdom
Lior Limonad, Smart Wearable and IoT solutions , IBM, Israel
Dongxi Liu, Data61, CSIRO, Australia
Luis Llana, Facultad de Informatica C/ Prof. José García Santesmases Cuidad Universitaria, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Marcos López-Sanz, Departament Of Information Systems And Languages II, Rey Juan Carlos University - Kybele Research Group, Spain
David Lorenz, Computer Science, Open University, Israel
Der-Chyuan Lou, 259 Wen-Hwa 1st Road, Kwei-Shan, Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, Chang Gung University, Chang Gung University, Taiwan, Republic of China
Frederic Mallet, Informatics, Universite Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
Beatriz Marin, Universidad Diego Portales, Chile
Assaf Marron, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel
Steve McKeever, Department of Informatics and Media, Uppsala University, Sweden
Dragan Milicev, Dept. Computing, University of Belgrade, Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Serbia
André Miralles, INRAE - National Research Institute for Agriculture, Food and Environment, France
Ambra Molesini, DISI, Alma Mater Studiorum - Università di Bologna, Italy
Stefan Naujokat, TU Dortmund, Germany
Clémentine Nebut, LIRMM, Université de Montpellier, France
Andrzej Niesler, Department of Information Systems, Wroclaw University of Economics and Business, Poland
Mykola Nikitchenko, Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv, Ukraine
Olaf Owe, Dept. Of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway
Ana R. Paiva, Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal
Dana Petcu, Computer Science Department, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Elke Pulvermüller, Dept. of Mathematics & Computer Science, University of Osnabrueck, Germany
Ansgar Radermacher, LIST, CEA, France
Aurora Ramirez, University of Córdoba, Spain
Ulrich Reimer, Eastern Switzerland University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland
Iris Reinhartz-Berger, Information Systems, University of Haifa, Israel
Yassine Rhazali, 23 Cooperative Hassania, Moulay Ismail University of Meknes, Morocco
Alberto Rodrigues da Silva, Engenharia Informática, IST / INESC-ID, Portugal
Colette Rolland, CRI, Université De Paris1 Panthèon Sorbonne, France
Jose Raul Romero, Dept. Informática Y Análisis Numérico, University of Cordoba, Spain
Gustavo Rossi, Facultad De Informatica. Universidad Nacional De La Plata, Lifia, Argentina
Jean-Guy Schneider, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Australia
Wieland Schwinger, Dept. For Telecooperation, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Anthony J. Simons, Computer Science, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Marjan Sirjani, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Jean-Sébastier Sottet, Luxembourg Institute for Science and Technology, Luxembourg
Ioannis Stamelos, Department Of Informatics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Alin Stefanescu, Computer Science, University of Bucharest, Romania
Arnon Sturm, Software and Information Systems Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Hamed Taherdoost, 204-1132 Haro Street, University Canada West, Vancouver, Canada
Matthias Tichy, University of Ulm, Germany
Jan Tretmans, ESI (TNO), Eindhoven and Radboud University, Netherlands
Naoyasu Ubayashi, Kyushu University, Japan
Christelle Urtado, EuroMov Digital Health in Motion, Univ. Montpellier, IMT Mines Ales, Ales, France
Sylvain Vauttier, EuroMov Digital Health in Motion, Univ. Montpellier, IMT Mines Ales, France
Gereon Weiss, Fraunhofer Institute for Cognitive Systems IKS, Germany
Hao Wu, Computer Science, National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Ireland
Husnu Yenigun, Computer Science and Engineering, Sabanci University, Turkey
Marc Zeller, Corporate Technology, Siemens AG, Germany
Huaxi Zhang, University of Picardie Jules Verne, France
Haiyan Zhao, Computer Science, Peking University, China
Albert Zündorf, Kassel University, Germany
Kamil Zyla, Institute of Computer Science, Lublin University of Technology, Poland