Dear Haskellers,
Lenses is Bx and our own Edward Kmett will be giving the keynote! Please
consider submitting.
Best regards,
Meng
Bx 2021 - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
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9th International Workshop on Bidirectional Transformations (Bx 2021)
as part of the STAF conference (June 21, 2021) running virtually,
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
http://bx-community.wikidot.com/bx2021:home
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* Important dates:
* Abstract submission: April 27, 2021
* Paper Submission: May 4, 2021
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OVERVIEW
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Bidirectional transformations (bx) are a mechanism for maintaining the
consistency between two or more related (and heterogeneous) sources of
information (i.e., relational databases, software models and code, or any other
artefacts following standard or domain-specific formats). The strongest
argument in favour of bx is its ability to provide a synchronization mechanism
that is guaranteed to be correct by construction.
Bx has been attracting a wide range of research areas and communities, with
prominent presence at top conferences in several different fields (namely
databases, programming languages, software engineering, and graph
transformation). Nowadays, the fast-growing complexity of software- or data-
intensive systems has forced the industry and the academy to use and
investigate different development techniques to manage the many different
aspects of the systems. Researchers are actively investigating the use of
bidirectional approaches to tackle a diverse set of challenges with various
applications including model-driven software development, visualization with
direct manipulation, big data, databases, domain-specific languages,
serializers, and data transformation, integration and exchange. Bx 2021 is a
dedicated venue for bx in all relevant fields and is part of a workshop series
that was created in order to promote cross-disciplinary research and awareness
in the area. As such, since its beginning in 2012, the workshop has rotated
between venues in different fields.
KEYNOTE
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We are happy to announce our keynote speaker: Edward Kmett.
TOPICS
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The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners,
established and new, interested in bx from different perspectives, including
but not limited to:
* bidirectional programming languages and frameworks
* software development with bx
* data and model synchronization
* view updating
* inter-model consistency analysis and repair
* data/schema (or model/metamodel) co-evolution
* coupled software/model transformations
* inversion of transformations and data exchange mappings
* domain-specific languages for bx
* analysis and classification of requirements for bx
* bridging the gap between formal concepts and application scenarios
* analysis of efficiency of transformation algorithms and benchmarks
* model-driven and model-based approaches
* survey and comparison of bx technologies
* case studies and tool support
CATEGORIES OF SUBMISSIONS
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Five categories of submissions are considered:
* Full Research Papers (13-15 pages)
- in-depth presentations of novel concepts and results
- applications of bx to new domains
- survey papers providing novel comparisons between existing bx
technologies and approaches, case studies
* Tool Papers (7-8 pages)
- guideline papers presenting best practices for employing a specific
bx approach (with a specific tool)
- presentation of new tools or substantial improvements to existing
ones
- qualitative and/or quantitative comparisons of applying different bx
approaches and tools
* Experience Report (7-8 pages)
- sharing experiences and lessons learned with bx
tools/frameworks/languages
- how bx is used in (research/industrial/educational) projects
* Short Papers (5 pages)
- work in progress
- small focused contributions
- position papers and research perspectives
- critical questions and challenges for bx
* Talk Proposals (2 pages)
- proposed lectures about topics of interest for bx
- existing work representing relevant contributions for bx
- promising contributions that are not mature enough to be proposed as
papers of the other categories
If your submission is not a Full Research Paper, please include the
intended submission category in the Title field of EasyChair’s submission form.
Tool papers, experience reports and short papers will be mapped to the short
paper category in CEUR (having between 5-9 standard pages, 1 standard page =
2500 characters), whereas full research papers will be mapped to the regular
paper category in CEUR (having at least 10 standard pages).
The bibliography is excluded from the page limits. All papers are expected
to be self-contained and well-written. Tool papers are not expected to present
novel scientific results, but to document artifacts of interest and share bx
experience/best practices with the community. Experience papers are expected to
report on lessons learnt from applying bx approaches, languages, tools, and
theories to practical application case studies. Extended abstracts should
primarily provoke interesting discussion at the workshop and will not be held
to the same standard of maturity as regular papers; short papers contain
focused results, positions or perspectives that can be presented in full in
just a few pages, and that correspondingly contain fewer results and that
therefore might not be competitive in the full paper category. Talk proposals
are expected to present work that is of particular interest to the community
and worth a talk slot at the workshop.
We strongly encourage authors to ensure that any (variants of) examples are
present in the bx example repository at the time of submission, and, for tool
papers, to allow for reproducibility with minimal effort, either via a virtual
machine (e.g., via Share) or a dedicated website with relevant artifacts and
tool access.
All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least three members of the
program committee.
If a submission is accepted, at least one author is expected to participate
in the workshop to present it. Authors of accepted tool paper submissions are
also expected to be available to demonstrate their tool at the event.
PROCEEDINGS
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The workshop proceedings (in a STAF 2021 joint volume for workshops),
including all accepted papers (except talk proposals), shall be submitted after
the conference to CEUR-WS.org for online publication. Pre-prints of all papers
will be available via the workshop website at the beginning of the conference.
Papers must follow the CEUR one column style available at:
http://ceur-ws.org/Vol-XXX/CEURART.zip
or
https://www.overleaf.com/latex/templates/template-for-submissions-to-ceur-workshop-proceedings-ceur-ws-dot-org/hpvjjzhjxzjk
and must be submitted via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bx2021
Please also ensure that your submission is legible when printed on a black
and white printer. In particular, please check that colors remain distinct and
font sizes are legible.
Submissions not complying with the above guidelines may be excluded from
the reviewing process without further notice.
IMPORTANT DATES
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Abstract submission: April 27, 2021
Paper submission: May 4, 2021
Author notification: May 25, 2021
Early registration: May 27, 2021
Workshop: June 21, 2021
PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS
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The workshop is co-organized by Meng Wang (University of Bristol, UK) and
Leen Lambers (Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam, Germany).
In case of questions, please contact the PC chairs at [email protected] .
Please find further information w.r.t. the Bx 2021 workshop at:
http://bx-community.wikidot.com/bx2021:home
and STAF 2021 conference at:
https://staf2021.hvl.no/
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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Ravi Chugh, University of Chicago, USA
Anthony Cleve, University of Namur, Belgium
Alcino Cunha, University of Minho, Portugal
Romina Eramo, University of L'Aquila, Italy
Michael Johnson, Macquarie University, Australia
Hsiang Shang Ko, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Ralf Lämmel, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
Kazutaka Matsuda, Tohoku University, Japan
Fernando Orejas, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
Roly Perera, Alan Turing Institute, UK
Perdita Stevens, The University of Edinburgh, UK
Tarmo Uustalu, Reykjavik University, Iceland
Jens Weber, University of Victoria, Canada
Bernhard Westfechtel, University of Bayreuth, Germany
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Leen Lambers
Senior Researcher at System Analysis and Modeling Group
https://hpi.de/giese/personen/dr-leen-lambers.html
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Hasso-Plattner-Institut für Digital Engineering gGmbH
Universität Potsdam
Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Str. 2-3
D-14482 Potsdam, Germany
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Amtsgericht Potsdam, HRB 12184
Geschäftsführung: Prof. Dr. Christoph Meinel
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