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Call for Papers

9th International Workshop on Graph Transformation
and Visual Modeling Techniques (GT-VMT 2010)

http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/gtvmt10/

Satellite Event of ETAPS 2010, Cyprus -- March 20-21, 2010
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* Scope *

GT-VMT 2010 is the ninth workshop of a series that serves as a forum
for all researchers and practitioners interested in the use of
graph-based notation, techniques, and tools for the specification,
modeling, validation, manipulation and verification of complex
systems. The aim of the workshop is to promote engineering
approaches that provide effective sound tool support for visual
modeling languages, enhancing formal reasoning at the semantic level
(e.g., for model analysis, transformation, and consistency
management) in different domains, such as UML, Petri nets, Graph
Transformation or Business Process/Workflow Models.

This year's workshop will have a special focus on visualization,
simulation, and verification of concurrent and distributed systems.

Concurrency and distribution are among the most vital concerns to
nowadays computing due to the importance of interconnected systems
and the increased diffusion of multi-core
architectures. Nevertheless, concurrent and distributed systems are
hard to specify, design, verify and implement. Visual and
graph-based techniques may be exploited to cope with the complexity
in engineering of and reasoning about concurrent and distributed
systems. In fact, graph-based approaches have recently been
successfully applied to represent several computational aspects of
different classes of distributed systems ranging from mobile systems
a-la pi-calculus, to coordination in service-oriented systems, to
communication networks. The aim of the workshop is to promote
graph- and visual-based approaches for modelling, designing,
implementing and reasoning about concurrent and distributed
systems. The general areas of interest range from non-functional
aspects (e.g., security, quantitive aspects), to (semi)formal
modelling frameworks, to visual techniques for distributed and
concurrent systems.

Besides the traditional topics of the GT-VMT series like

- visual language definition (incl. metamodelling, grammars, graphical parsing, etc.)
- syntax and semantics of visual languages (incl. OCL, graph patterns, simulation, animation, compilation, verification & validation, static analysis techniques, etc.)
- model transformations
- graph transformations and visual modeling techniques in engineering, biology, and medicine
- case studies and novel application areas
- tool support and efficient algorithms


more focused topics of interest include but are not limited to

- visual and graph-based languages for distributed systems
- graph models of distributed computations
- verification and validation of distributed systems with visual techniques
- graphical static & dynamic analysis of distributed systems
- graphs for architectural design languages for distributed systems
- visual techniques for modeling process choreographies and distributed workflows
- visual/graph-based approaches to distributed coordination mechanisms
- graph-based semantics models of novel distributed architectures (e.g., service oriented, GRID, P2P computing, and context aware/adaptive distributed applications)
- model transformations of graphical into textual formalisms for distributed systems
- model transformations and their application in model-driven development of distributed and concurrent systems
- relating models/visual tools for concurrency/distribution
- ...

* Important Dates *
December 11, 2009 Abstract Submission
December 18, 2009 Paper Submission
January 4, 2010 Notification of Acceptance
January 15, 2010 Camera ready version
March 20-21, 2010 Workshop


* Submissions *

The proceedings of GT-VMT10 will be published in the journal
Electronic Communications of the EASST. A preliminary version of
the proceedings will be available at the workshop. Papers should
not exceed 12 pages. For preparing your manuscript, the EASST
templates can be downloaded at

http://eceasst.cs.tu-berlin.de/template/

The online submission and review system is available at

http://www.easychair.org/GTVMT2010/


* Chairs *
Jochen Kuester, IBM Zurich Research, JKU [at] zurich.ibm.com
Emilio Tuosto, University of Leicester, emilio [at] mcs.le.ac.uk


* Program Committee *
Paolo Baldan (University of Padova, Italy)
Artur Boronat (University of Leicester, UK)
Andrea Corradini (University of Pisa, Italy)
Claudia Ermel (TU Berlin, Germany)
Gregor Engels (University of Paderborn, Germany)
Reiko Heckel (University of Leicester, UK)
Thomas Hildebrandt (IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark)
Holger Giese (HPI Potsdam, Germany)
Barbara Koenig (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Jochen Kuester (IBM Research - Zurich) [co-chair]
Alberto Lluch Lafuente (University of Pisa, Italy)
Juan de Lara (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
Mark Minas (Universitat der Bundeswehr Muenchen, Germany)
Francesco Parisi-Presicce (University of Rome, Italy)
Arend Rensink (University of Twente, Netherlands)
Gabriele Taentzer (University of Marburg, Germany)
Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester) [co-chair]
Daniel Varro (TU Budapest, Hungary)
Erhard Weinell (RWTH Aachen University)
Albert Zuendorf (University of Kassel, Germany)