ICGT 2016

9th International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT 2016)

Graphs are used almost everywhere when representing or modelling structures and systems, not only in applied and theoretical computer science, but also in, e.g., natural and engineering sciences. Graph transformation and graph grammars are the fundamental modelling paradigms for describing, formalizing, and analyzing graphs that change over time when modelling, e.g., dynamic data structures, systems, or models. The International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT) series aims to bring together researchers from different areas in this context and to provide a forum for presenting new results, discussing novel ideas and sharing experience. In order to foster a lively exchange of perspectives on the subject of the conference, the programme committee of the ninth edition of ICGT encourages all kinds of contributions related to graph transformation.

Topics of interest include, BUT ARE NOT LIMITED TO the following subjects:

• General models of graph transformation (e.g., high-level, adhesive, node, edge, and hyperedge replacement systems)
• Analysis and verification of graph transformation systems
• Graph theoretical properties of graph languages
• Automata on graphs and parsing of graph languages
• Logical aspects of graph transformation
• Computational models based on graph transformation
• Structuring and modularization concepts for graph transformation systems
• Hierarchical graphs and decompositions of graphs
• Parallel, concurrent, and distributed graph transformation
• Modelling and analysis of dynamic data structures
• Term graph rewriting
• Graph transformation and Petri nets
• Ontologies and ontology evolution
• Graph databases
• Modelling and realizing software architectures, refactoring, evolution, workflows, business processes, access control, security policies, service-oriented applications, semantic web, ...
• Natural language processing, natural computing, bioinformatics, quantum computing, ubiquitous computing, visual computing, image generation, natural and engineering sciences, ...
• Model-driven development and model transformation based on graph transformation
• Model checking, program verification, simulation and animation
• Syntax, semantics and implementation of programming languages, domain-specific languages, and visual languages
• Graph transformation languages and tool support
• Efficient algorithms (pattern matching, graph traversal etc.)

The 9th International Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT 2016) will be held in Vienna, Austria, as a STAF event (http://staf2016.conf.tuwien.ac.at/). The conference takes place under the auspices of EATCS (http://www.eatcs.org/), EASST (http://www.easst.org/), and IFIP (http://www.ifip.org/) WG 1.3.

Program Committee

• Rachid Echahed (Co-Chair, CNRS and University of Grenoble Alpes, France)
• Mark Minas (Co-Chair, Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen, Germany)
• Gabor Bergmann (Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary)
• Paolo Bottoni (Sapienza Univ. di Roma, Italy)
• Andrea Corradini (Universita di Pisa, Italy)
• Juan de Lara (Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain)
• Frank Drewes (Umea University, Sweden)
• Claudia Ermel (Technische Universitat Berlin, Germany)
• Holger Giese (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany)
• Annegret Habel (Universitat Oldenburg, Germany)
• Reiko Heckel (University of Leicester, UK)
• Berthold Hoffmann (Universitat Bremen, Germany)
• Dirk Janssens (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium)
• Barbara Konig (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
• Christian Krause (SAP Innovation Centre Potsdam, Germany)
• Sabine Kuske (Universitat Bremen, Germany)
• Leen Lambers (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany)
• Yngve Lamo (Bergen University College, Norway)
• Tihamer Levendovszky (Vanderbilt University, USA)
• Mohamed Mosbah (LaBRI , Universite de Bordeaux, France)
• Fernando Orejas (Technical University of Catalonia, Spain)
• Francesco Parisi-Presicce (Sapienza Univ. di Roma, Italy)
• Detlef Plump (University of York, UK)
• Arend Rensink (University of Twente, The Netherlands)
• Leila Ribeiro (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
• Andy Schurr (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany)
• Martin Strecker (Universite de Toulouse, France)
• Gabriele Taentzer (Philipps-Universitat Marburg, Germany)
• Matthias Tichy (University of Ulm, Germany)
• Pieter Van Gorp (Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands)
• Hans Vangheluwe (Universiteit Antwerpen, Belgium)
• Bernhard Westfechtel (University of Bayreuth, Germany)
• Albert Zundorf (Kassel University, Germany)

Paper Submission

Papers are solicited in three categories:

• Research papers (limited to 16 pages in Springer LNCS format) describe innovative contributions and are evaluated with respect to their originality, significance, and technical soundness. Additional material intended for reviewers but not for publication in the final version may be included in a clearly marked appendix.
• Case studies (limited to 12 pages in Springer LNCS format) describe applications of graph transformations in any application domain.
• Tool presentation papers (limited to 12 pages in Springer LNCS format) demonstrate the main features and functionality of graph-based tools. A tool presentation paper may have an appendix with a detailed demo description (up to 5 pages), which will be reviewed but not included in the proceedings.

Papers can be submitted at http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icgt2016.
Submitted papers must use Springer's LNCS format (http://www.springer.com/lncs).
Simultaneous submission to other conferences with proceedings or submission of material that has already been published elsewhere is not allowed. The page limits are strict and include references.

Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springer.com/lncs) series.

Important Dates

• Abstract submission: 15 February 2016
• Full paper submission: 29 February 2016
• Notification of acceptance: 07 April 2016
• Final version due: 21 April 2016
• Conference: 5-6 July 2016

Further Information

• Web page: http://www.graph-transformation.org
  https://sites.google.com/site/icgt2016/
• Contact: icgt2016@gmail.com