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CALL FOR PAPERS: 11th International Workshop on "Models and Evolution" Co-located with ACM/IEEE 20th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages & Systems (MODELS 2017), Austin, Texas, Sept 17-22, 2017 http://www.models-and-evolution.com/

We cordially invite submissions to the 11th International Workshop on Models and Evolution (ME) held in conjunction with the ACM/IEEE 20th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS) at Austin, Texas in September, 2017.

Scope Software artefacts constantly increase in complexity, variety and novelty. Environment and business constraints, user requirements and new insights put additional pressure on their adaptability, availability, reliability and quality: they continuously need to be up to date. But evolution issues are critical, complex and costly to manage. They concern requirements, architecture, design, source code, documentation, integration or deployment. They also typically affect various kinds of models (data, behavioral, domain, source code or goal models). Addressing and managing these varieties of changes is essential. Models and metamodels, the cornerstone of complex software systems’ abstractions, represent a powerful mean for facing software evolution challenges by ensuring a more abstract and expressive modeling of software evolution. They can help and guide software evolution and can enforce and reduce critical risks and important involved resources. The workshop puts the focus on Models and Evolution by considering two main sides: (1) Managing software evolution needs by relying on the high-​level abstraction power of models and metamodels. (2) Managing model and metamodel evolution needs and the co-evolution of all related software artefacts by putting attention to their increasing evolution issues as they become primary artefacts.

ME 2017 will bring together researchers and practitioners to share experiences in dealing with the various forms of models and evolution. It combines a strong practical focus with theoretical approaches as required in any discipline to support engineering practices. ME 2017 targets researchers and practitioners on model-driven engineering to meet, disseminate and exchange ideas, identify the key issues related to the problem of models and evolution and explore possible solutions and future work.

Topics Contributions are solicited on all aspects of models and evolution, its foundations, practices and technologies. In particular, we encourage submissions from both academia and industry about the following (non-exhaustive) list of topics: Formalisms, theories, formal approaches, methods and languages for expressing and understanding model-driven software evolution Supporting processes and tools for managing model-driven software evolution (Co-)evolution and (co-)adaptation of models, metamodels and modeling languages; classification of (co-)evolution scenarios Conformance checking, inconsistency management, synchronization, differencing, comparison, impact analysis of evolving models Transformation techniques for evolving models: restructuring, refactoring, migration, translation, composition, versioning, etc. Maintenance and evolution of domain-specific languages Maintenance and evolution of model transformations Traceability maintenance, verification, and validation of evolving models, evolving model transformations, and evolving modeling languages; runtime models Analysis of model maintainability Variability management using models Model-driven software architecture recovery, reverse architecting, reconstruction, migration and software release engineering Model-based and model-related techniques for legacy systems evolution and systems integration Reusable evolution solutions and patterns Evolution issues in new and emerging systems and paradigms (e.g., cyber-security, cyber-physical systems, systems of systems, systems engineering, Internet of Things, cloud computing and its Software, Platform, Infrastructure (SPI) model, data analytics, big data, social media, devices and services, mobile applications, open source software, sustainability and modeling for social good, open architectures, product-line architectures, software ecosystems, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), micro-services, enterprise architectures) Model-driven software evolution regarding energy-awareness and sustainability Training, education, and certification around software evolution State-of-the-art and state-of-practice in software evolution Empirical studies, industrial needs, experience reports and experiments in software evolution Tools and methods supporting all of the above topics

Submission We solicit papers of the following types: Research papers (max. 10 pages) providing novel contributions on topics of the workshop presenting novel ideas, addressing challenging problems, or making practical contributions. Position papers (max. 6 pages): Work in progress papers presenting early work and preliminary research results of young researchers in topics related to the workshop. Visionary papers proposing visionary and strategic ideas and/or looking for collaborations around international projects. Industrial experience papers reporting about experiences in the area of models and evolution, novel industrial tools, and positions from industry about experience and/or case studies about managing or putting into practice model-driven software evolution solutions are highly appreciated. Tool presentations (max. 6 pages) presenting (experience with) tools (which may be either research prototypes or commercial tools) that are fully/partially dedicated to supporting the model-based software evolution and evolution issues encountered in model-based development. Contributions must be written in English, adhere to the ACM SIGS format, and be submitted through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=me2017). All submissions must be original work and must not have been previously published or being under review elsewhere. For each accepted paper, at least one of the authors must register for the workshop, participate fully in the workshop, and present the paper at the workshop. Accepted workshop papers will be published on CEUR-WS.

Important Dates Abstract submission deadline: June 30, 2017 Paper submission deadline: July 7, 2017 Notification to authors: July 28, 2017 Workshop date: September 17, 18 or 19, 2017

Organizers Tanja Mayerhofer, TU Wien (Austria) Alfonso Pierantonio, University of L'Aquila (Italy) Bernhard Schätz, fortiss GmbH (Germany) Dalila Tamzalit, University of Nantes (France)

Program Committee Vasilios Andrikopoulos, University of Stuttgart, Germany Alessandra Bagnato, Softeam, France Mireille Blay-Fornarino, Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, I3S, France Francis Bordeleau, Canada Antonio Cicchetti, Mälardalen University, Sweden Davide Di Ruscio, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy Anne Etien, University of Lille 1, France Jesus Garcia-Molina, Universidad de Murcia, Spain Sebastien Gerard, CEA, France Holger Giese, Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Softwaresystemtechnik GmbH, Germany Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA Rich Hilliard, IEEE Computer Society, USA Ludovico Iovino, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy Udo Kelter, University of Siegen, Germany Philip Langer, Eclipse Source, Austria Olivier Le Goaer, LIUPPA, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France Shahar Maoz, Tel Aviv University, Israel Salvador Martínez, INRIA, France Tom Mens, University of Mons, Belgium Richard Paige, University of York, UK Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Jesús Sánchez Cuadrado, Universidad de Murcia, Spain Martina Seidl, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria Massimo Tisi, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, MetaCase, Finland Antonio Vallecillo, Universidad de Málaga, Spain Konrad Wieland, Sparx Systems, Austria Manuel Wimmer, TU Wien, Austria