MPM15

9th International Workshop on Multi-Paradigm Modeling (MPM)

September 27-29, 2015

Satellite event @ MODELS 2015 - Ottawa, Canada

PURPOSE

The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the area of Multi-Paradigm Modeling in order to identify possible points of synergy, common problems and solutions, tool building aspects and visions for the future of the area.

IMPORTANT DATES

• Paper submission deadline: July 17, 2015
• Notification of acceptance: August 21, 2015
• News updates: https://twitter.com/MPMworkshop

SCOPE

Computational modeling has become the industry norm to remain competitive and be successful. As such, Model-Based Design of complex, software-intensive systems has enterprise-wide implications and modeling is not limited to isolated uses by a single engineer or team. Instead, it has reached a proliferation much akin to large software design, with requirements for infrastructure support such as version control, configuration management, and automated processing.

The comprehensive use of models in design has created a set of challenges beyond that of supporting one isolated design task. In particular, the need to combine, couple, and integrate models at different levels of abstraction and in different formalisms is posing a set of specific problems that Multi-Paradigm Modeling (MPM) aims to address.

The essential element of multi-paradigm modeling is the use of explicit and heterogeneous models throughout. This leads to a framework with omnipresent models. Some represent the syntax of formalisms used for modeling, others are used to model the transformations that represent the operational semantics, as well as model-to-model transformations for inter-formalism transformation. Moreover, others are used to model the composition of models or even to model the composition of modeling formalisms. These models are then used to facilitate generative tasks in a language engineering space, such as evolving a domain specific modeling formalism as its requirements change, but also in a tool engineering space, such as automatic generation of integrated development environments. The use of ubiquitous explicit models during the whole system design process, from modeling formalism definition to system implementation, allows multiple types of analyses at various levels with great benefits in terms of performance, cost-effectiveness, safety, etc.

TOPICS OF INTEREST (including, but not limited to):

- Heterogeneous models:

• multi-domain and multi-physics modeling,
• multi-view modeling,
• multi-abstraction modeling;

- Heterogeneity in modeling languages:

• engineering of the modeling languages,
• modeling Models of Computation (MoCs) and semantic adaptation,
• mega-modeling;

- Multi-Paradigm Modeling techniques:

• model transformation,
• model composition and integration,
• modeling cross-domain interactions,
• model-based detection of unanticipated interactions in heterogeneous systems,
• (co-) simulation of heterogeneous models,
• visualization of multi-paradigm models;

- Applications of and experience with current MPM techniques. Non-exhaustive list of domains:

• healthcare,
• smart cities,
• smart homes,
• automotive,
• future energy systems,
• human-computer interaction, etc.

Contributions should clearly address the foundations of multi-paradigm modeling by demonstrating the use of models to achieve the stated objectives and discuss the benefits of explicit modeling.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURE AND PUBLICATION PROCEDURE

• Papers must be submitted electronically as PDF via EasyChair from the workshop web site: http://is.ieis.tue.nl/research/bpm/MPM15/
• Papers will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee.
• All accepted workshop papers will be published by CEUR, and will be indexed by DBLP.
• Conceptual papers, as well as application and tool papers, are all welcome.
• Papers may be short (max. 6 pages) or full (max. 10 pages) and must follow the LNCS style available at the workshop web site.
• Papers will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee.
• All accepted workshop papers will be published by CEUR, and will be indexed by DBLP.

STEERING COMMITTEE

• Pieter J. Mosterman, The MathWorks Inc., USA
• Hans Vangheluwe, University of Antwerp, Belgium and McGill University, Canada
• Gabor Karsai, Vanderbilt University, USA
• Vasco Amaral, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
• Laszlo Lengyel, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE

• Daniel Balasubramanian, Vanderbilt University, USA
• Bruno Barroca, MSDL, McGill University, Canada
• Sahar Kokaly, NECSIS, McMaster University, Canada
• Gergely Mezei, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
• Pieter Van Gorp, Information Systems Group, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e), The Netherlands

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Kirstie Bellman, The Aerospace Corporation
• Dominique Blouin, Hasso-Plattner-Institut
• Frederic Boulanger, Supelec
• Didier Buchs CUI, University of Geneva
• Antonio Cicchetti, Malardalen University
• Benoit Combemale, IRISA, Universite de Rennes
• Arnaud Cuccuru, CEA LIST
• Juan De Lara, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid
• Joachim Denil, University of Antwerp
• Vincent Englebert, University of Namur
• Thomas Huining Feng, University of California, Berkeley
• Holger Giese, Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam
• Thomas Kuehne, Victoria University of Wellington
• Levi Lucio, McGill University
• Bart Meyers, University of Antwerp
• Mark Minas, Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen
• Ahsan Qamar, Ford Motor Company
• Rick Salay, University of Toronto
• Hessam Sarjoughian, ACIMS, Arizona State University
• Eugene Syriani, University of Montreal
• Martin Torngren, KTH Royal Institute of Technology
• Mamadou Traore, Blaise Pascal University, Clermont-Ferrand
• Daniel Varro, Budapest University of Technology and Economics
• Jeroen Voeten, Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e)
• Bernhard Westfechtel, University of Bayreuth
• Manuel Wimmer, Business Informatics Group, Vienna University of Technology