CfP: 11th International Workshop on Multi-Level Modeling (MULTI)

Call for Papers

11th International Workshop on Multi-Level Modeling (MULTI)

 September 22 - 24, 2024 | Linz, Austria | https://multi-workshop.github.io/

Co-located with the ACM / IEEE 27th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS)

The MULTI workshop series is the premier venue for researchers and practitioners working on multi-level modeling and multi-level software development. Multi-level modeling represents a new object-oriented paradigm for both conceptual modelling and software engineering. In contrast to conventional two-level approaches, it supports an unbounded number of classification levels and introduces concepts and mechanisms that foster reuse, adaptability, and control. While multi-level languages and tools have reached considerable maturity, the field still offers numerous challenges.

The MULTI workshop series aims at providing a platform for exchanging ideas and promoting further development of multi-level languages, methods, and tools. A particular goal is to encourage the community to, beyond proposing new approaches, analyse different approaches to multi-level modelling and define objective ways to evaluate their respective strengths and weaknesses.

The 11th International Workshop on Multi-Level Modeling (MULTI 2024) will be single day event to held between 22-24 September 2024, at the MODELS'24 conference in Linz, Austria.

Important Dates

  • Paper Submission: 5 July 2024
  • Authors Notification: 7 August 2024
  • Camera-ready Papers: 16 August 2024
  • Workshop: 22-24 September 2024

* the MULTI workshop is a single day event with date to be confirmed by the MODELS conference.

MULTI 2024 invites submissions of four different types:

  • regular research papers (10 pages).
  • challenge papers (10 pages).
  • position papers (5 pages).
  • industrial abstracts (2 pages).

Topics

Topics for regular and position papers include, but are not limited to:

  • the nature of elements in a multi-level hierarchy and how to best represent and present them.
  • the importance and role of deep characterization mechanisms, including potency and its variants.
  • the structure of MLM frameworks.
  • fundamental aspects of MLM, such as model composition and decomposition.
  • formal approaches to MLM.
  • tool support for MLM.
  • MLM in education.
  • model management (transformation, code generation etc.) in a multi-level setting.
  • integration of modelling and programming languages in a multi-level setting.
  • constraints in a multi-level setting.
  • definition of behavioral semantics in a multi-level setting.
  • methods and techniques for discovering clabjects and their specializations and classification relationships.
  • design patterns addressing when and how to apply multi-level metamodelling.
  • case studies demonstrating advantages of multi-level techniques.
  • applying MLM to large and/or real-world problems.
  • criteria and approaches for comparing MLM approaches.

Submission guidelines

All authors must submit their contributions a PDF file via EasyChair.

Industrial abstract authors need to submit a single-page PDF file containing the title of their contribution, the name and affiliation of authors, and a abstract of the multi-level problem they want to share in the workshop.

Paper authors need to submit their contributions as PDF files. These papers should follow the same formatting instructions used for the main track, available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template for both LaTeX and Word users. 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.

Accepted papers will be included in the MODELS 2024 companion published by the ACM. Accepted industrial abstracts will be published on the MULTI 2024 workshop website.

Additional notes for paper authors

Note that by submitting a paper to a MODELS workshop, authors acknowledge that they are aware of and agree to be bound by the ACM Policy and Procedures on Plagiarism. In particular, papers submitted to MULTI 2024 must not have been published elsewhere and must not be under review or submitted for review elsewhere while under consideration for MULTI 2024.

In addition, by submitting your article, you are hereby acknowledging that you and your co-authors are subject to all ACM Publications Policies, including ACM's new Publications Policy on Research Involving Human Participants and Subjects. Alleged violations of this policy or any ACM Publications Policy will be investigated by ACM and may result in a full retraction of your paper, in addition to other potential penalties, as per ACM Publications Policy.

Paper authors must ensure that all authors obtain an ORCID ID, so you can complete the publishing process for your accepted paper. ACM has been involved in ORCID from the start and the MODELS conference have recently made a commitment to collect ORCID IDs from all of their published authors.

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