Call for Workshops

ACM/IEEE 20th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems

Austin, Texas, Sept 17-22, 2017

The MODELS series of conferences is the premier venue for the exchange of innovative technical ideas and experiences relating to model-driven software engineering approaches. Topics covered by the conference include domain-specific modelling languages, general-purpose modelling languages and standards, model-driven engineering processes, model transformations, model-driven software engineering tools and frameworks, quality assurance for functional and non-functional properties of models, and many more.

Following the tradition of previous conferences, MODELS 2017 will host a number of workshops during the three days before the main conference. The workshops will provide a collaborative forum for a group of typically 15 to 30 participants to exchange recent and/or preliminary results, to conduct intensive discussions on a particular topic related to model-driven software engineering, or to coordinate efforts between representatives of a technical community. They are intended as a forum for lively discussion of innovative ideas, recent progress, or practical experience on model-driven engineering for specific aspects, specific problems, or domain-specific needs.

In 2017, MODELS challenges the community to explore the use of modelling for new and emerging systems, paradigms, and open problems including (but not limited to):

• cyber-physical and safety-critical systems
• cloud computing
• social media
• security
• open source
• analytics
• society and sustainability
• games and gamification
• human factors and accessibility

Each workshop should provide a balanced distribution of its time for both presentation of papers and discussions. We encourage prospective workshop organizers to submit proposals for highly interactive workshops focusing on areas related to modelling in general. Both research-oriented and applied topics are welcome. The duration of each workshop is either half a day or a full day.

Important Dates

• Workshop proposal submission: March 10 March 14, 2017 "Anywhere on Earth", i.e., UTC-12
• Notification: April 10, 2017
• Workshop dates: September 17-19, 2017 (Sunday to Tuesday).

Workshop Proposal Guidelines

Your proposal must contain the following information:

General Information:

• Workshop title and name or acronym
• Organizers and primary contact (name/affiliation/email)
• Desired length of the workshop (half day or full day)
• Abstract (200 words), intended for the MODELS 2017 website

Objectives and Scope:

• Motivation
• Objectives
• Topics of interest
• Intended audience
• Relevance to the MODELS 2017 conference and the MODELS community in general (comments in favor of your application; if your workshop was at MODELS 2016 or any of the former conferences, why is it useful to run it again?)
• Previous events including, where applicable, a link to the website, the number of submitted and accepted papers, and the number of attendees

Organization Details:

• Details on the organizers (150 words max), including relevant past experience in workshop organization
• Workshop program committee (indicated as finalized or expected)

Workshop Format:

• Intended paper format (number of pages; types of papers, e.g., full papers, work-in-progress papers, practitioners' reports, posters)
• Evaluation process
• Intended workshop format (including duration, number of presentations, and planned keynotes)
• How many participants do you expect (please make at least an educated guess)?
• Specific requirements (e.g., equipment, room capacity)

Additional Material:

• Workshop web page (URL of the draft web page, if one exists)
• Draft Call for Papers for the workshop (a one page Call for Papers that you intend to send out if your workshop is accepted)

In order to ensure a proper coordination of the workshop paper submission deadlines with those of the main conference, the following constraints have to be respected by the deadlines you plan for your workshop:

• Workshop website and CFP dissemination: May 10, 2017
• Workshop paper submission deadline: July 7, 2017
• Workshop paper notification to authors: July 28, 2017 (or before, but STRICTLY NOT LATER since the notification should be before the MODELS early registration deadline)
• Workshop dates: September 17-19, 2017

Please note that the above dates are common across all workshops. These are the internal dates for your workshop.

Submissions

Please ensure that you adhere to the above workshop proposal guidelines providing all requested information using at most six (6) pages. In addition, please provide a one page draft of your planned Call for Papers to the proposal (not included in the 6 pages).

The submission must adhere to the IEEE formatting instructions, using the templates found here:
https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Please submit your workshop proposal electronically in PDF to EasyChair (here). The actual deadline for submitting a workshop proposal is March 10 March 14, 2017.

Proceedings

Workshop papers will be published on CEUR (see here for preconditions for publishing). Details will be communicated to the organizers of accepted workshops at the time of notification.

Workshop Organization and Contact Information

Workshops Co-Chairs:

• Michalis Famelis, University of Montreal, Canada
• Sahar Kokaly, McMaster University and General Motors, Canada

Workshops Selection Committee

• Omar Badreddin, Northern Arizona University, USA
• Shoham Ben-David, Mellanox Technologies, Israel
• Nelly Bencomo, Aston University, UK
• Marco Brambilla, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
• Michel Chaudron, Chalmers and Gothenborg University, Sweden
• Antonio Cicchetti, Mälardalen University, Sweden
• Federico Ciccozzi, Mälardalen University, Sweden
• Michalis Famelis, University of Montreal, Canada
• Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA
• Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj, Concordia University, Canada
• Emilio Insfran, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
• Sahar Kokaly, McMaster University and General Motors, Canada
• Philip Langer, EclipseSource, Austria
• Ileana Ober, Université Paul Sabatier, France
• Alfonso Pierantonio, University of L’Aquila, Italy
• Julia Rubin, University of British Columbia, Canada
• Houari Sahraoui, University of Montreal, Canada
• Dalila Tamzalit, Département Informatique - IUT de Nantes, France
• Matthias Tichy, University of Ulm, Germany
• Manuel Wimmer, Business Informatics Group, Vienna University of Technology, Austria