CfP: 18th edition of the international workshop on Models and Evolution (ME24)
C A L L F O R P A P E R S
18th WORKSHOP ON MODELS and EVOLUTION 2024 (ME'24)
https://models-and-evolution.github.io/call-for-paper/
Linz, Austria | September 22 or 23, 2024
Co-located with MODELS'24
Model artifacts are subject to constant evolution throughout the lifecycle of sys- tems. The evolutionary pressure emerges from various technical and business factors throughout the overall software/system engineering endeavor. Pertinent examples of such factors include changing requirements, changing environment, and changing user base, all of which give rise to unique evolutionary challenges in various system artifacts from architecture to implementation, and even in infor- mal artifacts, such as documentation. These challenges, if left unmanaged, may lead to deteriorating quality attributes, and in severe cases inconsistent artifacts or even incorrect artifacts, preventing the system from operating as intended. Therefore, proper support for efficient and effective evolution is required. The Models and Evolution workshop promotes novel theories, techniques, and tools to support evolution. To this end, the workshop brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss the latest developments on the topic.
The workshop aims to provide a forum to present and discuss bleeding-edge research contributions related to model evolution, and to provide visibility to novel technical solutions, early new ideas, and outside-the-box approaches.
Topic of interest
The topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:
- Foundations
- Theories, methods, and tools for (meta-)model evolution
- Co-evolution across multiple meta-levels (incl. instance and data levels)
- Correctness and quality aspects
- Correctness and consistency concerns of model evolution
- Verification and validation of evolving MDE artifacts
- Applications
- Software migration, reconstruction, reuse, and repurposing
- Evolution of heterogeneous systems, e.g., CPS and digital twins, including the (co-)evolution of virtual and physical artifacts and infrastructure
- Empirical works, industry reports, patterns and catalogs, training and education in the area of model evolution
Paper formatWe solicit three types of papers.
- Full research papers (max. 10 pages): novel research contributions
- Position papers (max. 5 pages), including:
- Work in progress: preliminary results especially by young researchers;
- Vision papers: new visions and strategic ideas;
- Industry experience reports.
- 3. Tool papers (max. 5 pages): experience with tools for model-based software evolution and evolution issues encountered in model-based development.
Submission guidelinesAll submitted papers must adhere to the ACM Conference format, and submitted electronically through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=me20240 ). LaTeX users must use the provided acmart.cls and ACM-Reference-Format.bst without modification, enable the conference format in the preamble of the document (i.e., \documentclass[sigconf,review]{acmart}), and use the ACM reference format for the bibliography (i.e., \bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format}). The review option adds line numbers, thereby allowing referees to refer to specific lines in their comments. All submissions will be reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. Papers submitted to the workshop should have at least 5 pages and 10 pages for full papers following the same style and format of the main tracks of the Conference. Submissions that do not adhere to the formatting instructions may be desk-rejected without review.