--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Call for Papers: GT-VMT 2013
12th International Workshop on Graph Transformation and Visual Modeling
Techniques
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Aims and Scope:
---------------
GT-VMT 2013 is the twelfth workshop of a series that serves as a forum for
all researchers and practitioners interested in the use of visual notations
(especially graph-based), techniques and tools for the specification,
modeling, validation, manipulation and verification of complex systems.

The aim of the workshop is to promote engineering approaches that provide
effective sound tool support for visual modeling languages, enhancing formal
reasoning at the syntactic as well as semantic level (e.g., for model
specification, model analysis, model transformation, and model consistency
management) in different domains, such as UML, Petri Nets, Graph
Transformation or Business Process/Workflow Models.

This year's workshop has a special theme of the analysis of
non-functional / extra-functional / quality properties like
performance, real-time, safety, reliability, energy consumption. We
particularly encourage submissions that focus on the definition and
the evaluation of such properties using visual/graph specification
techniques, ranging from underlying theory through to their utility in
complex system design.

GT-VMT 2013 is co-located with ETAPS 2013, the European Joint Conferences
on Theory and Practice of Software (see http://www.etaps.org/2013/), in
Rome, Italy.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Topics of Interest:
-------------------
As a summary, topics relevant to the scope of the workshop include (but are
not restricted to) the following:
+ visual languages definition and syntax (incl. meta-modelling, grammars and
graphical parsing);
+ static and dynamic semantics of visual languages (incl. OCL, graph
constraints, simulation, animation, compilation);
+ visual/graph-based analysis in software engineering (incl. testing,
verification and validation, static and dynamic analysis techniques);
+ visual/graph constraints (incl. definition, expressiveness, analysis
techniques involving constraints);
+ model transformations and their application in model-driven development (incl.
in particular, transformations between graphical and textual formalisms);
+ visual modeling techniques and graph transformation applied to
patterns;
+ visual modeling techniques and graph transformations for systems with
quality properties like performance, real-time, safety, reliability, energy consumption
+ case studies and novel application areas (e.g. within engineering,
biology, etc);
+ tool support and efficient algorithms.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Invited Speakers:
-----------------
We are happy that Andrea Corradini, University of Pisa (Italy), and
Holger Giese, University of Potsdam (Germany), have agreed to give
invited talks.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Paper Submission Details:
-------------------------
The proceedings of this workshop will be published in the journal of
Electronic Communications of the EASST. Papers should not exceed 12 pages.

For preparing your manuscript, the ECEASST templates for GT-VMT 2013 can
be downloaded from http://journal.ub.tu-berlin.de/template/

Please submit your abstract and paper using the EasyChair page for the workshop
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=gtvmt2013

Special Issue:
-------------------------
The authors of the best papers of the workshop will be invited to
submit a revised and extended version of their paper to a special issue in the
Journal "Science of Computer Programming" subject to further review.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Important Dates:
----------------
Abstract Submission: Dec 7, 2012
Paper Submission: Dec 14, 2012
Notification: Jan 18, 2013
Camera ready: Febr 1, 2013
Workshop Dates: March 23-24, 2013
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Program Chairs:
---------------
Matthias Tichy, Chalmers University of Technology and University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
Leila Ribeiro, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Program Committee:
------------------
Paolo Baldan, University of Padova (Italy)
Steffen Becker, University of Paderborn (Germany)
Harrie Jan Sander Bruggink, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
Juan De Lara, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn (Germany)
Claudia Ermel, TU Berlin (Germany)
Lars Grunske, University of Stuttgart (Germany)
Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester (UK)
Ekkart Kindler, Technical University of Denmark (Denmark)
Jochen Küster, IBM Research Zurich (Switzerland)
Barbara König, University of Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
Rodrigo Machado, Federal University of Pampa (Brazil)
Mark Minas, Universität der Bundeswehr München (Germany)
István Ráth, TU Budapest (Hungary)
Arend Rensink, University of Twente (Netherlands)
Andy Schürr, TU Darmstadt (Germany)
Gabriele Taentzer, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany)
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Further Information:
--------------------
Email: gtvmt2013@easychair.org
Home page: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~tichy/gtvmt2013/
CfP as PDF: http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~tichy/gtvmt2013/gt-vmt2013-cfp-a4.pdf
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Sponsored by ETAPS
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------