MoDELS 2006

• Full title: ACM/IEEE 9th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
• Location: Genova, Italy
• Date: October 1-6, 2006
• Deadline abstracts: March 20, 2006
• Deadline papers: April 3, 2006
• Notification: June 12, 2006
• Webpage: http://www.modelsconference.org/

The past decade has witnessed an explosion of interest in advanced techniques for keeping abstract models of complex software systems in sync with the underlying code. Domain specific languages, model-driven engineering, model transformations, and standardization of modeling languages are among the more significant emerging trends. MoDELS 2006 is the premier conference that brings together practitioners and researchers to present and discuss both practical experience and innovative techniques in model-driven approaches to software development. MoDELS 2006 will include both scientific and experience conference papers, workshops, tutorials, a doctoral symposium and poster sessions. See the conference website for further details.

Scientific papers: We invite scientific research papers describing innovative research on model-driven engineering and other aspects of modeling in the development process. This also includes well-designed empirical studies and innovative automation solutions and tool architectures.

Experience papers: We invite experience papers that focus on reporting project experience with model-driven engineering. These papers should describe the project context, detail practical lessons learned, and provide insight about how model-driven approaches and technologies can be improved for application in an industrial context.

The conference will include papers and presentations on many of the following topics:

• Model-driven engineering methodologies, approaches, languages and tools
• Domain-specific modeling languages
• Empirical studies of modeling and model-driven engineering
• Programming language and metaprogramming support for linking models to code
• Models in the context of software evolution
• Model evaluation, formal or heuristic
• Model transformations
• Metamodeling
• Modeling languages and tools
• Semantics of modeling languages
• Model-driven testing
• Model quality
• Modelling and analysis of real-time, embedded, and distributed systems

Submit your manuscript electronically in Postscript or PDF using the Springer LNCS style: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html

Submission web site: TBA – see http://www.modelsconference.org/

Papers must be no longer than 15 pages in length (including references, appendices etc.). Papers will undergo a thorough process of review by a program committee comprising leading experts from academia and industry; however, papers that are too long may be rejected without review. Scientific proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the LNCS series. All papers must be original, unpublished, and not submitted simultaneously for publication elsewhere.

Authors of best papers from the conference will be invited to revise and submit extended versions of their papers for publication consideration in a special issue of Software and Systems Modeling (Springer).

Proposals for advanced workshops, tutorials and posters are requested. See the conference website http://www.modelsconference.org/ for details.