[AISWorld] MULTI 2017 in Austin, Sept. 17th-22nd, Call for Papers

[Ulrich Frank]

A growing community of researchers is excited about the prospects 
offered by multilevel modelling. However, there is still no clear 
consensus on what this new paradigm actually entails and how it should 
be applied. For example, there are different views on whether it is 
sound to combine instance facets and type facets into so-called 
clabjects, whether strict metamodeling is too restrictive, and what tool 
architectures provide the best framework for modelling with multiple 
classification levels. This lack of a foundational consensus is mirrored 
by the lack of a common focus in current multilevel tools.

The goal of MULTI 2017 
(https://www.wi-inf.uni-duisburg-essen.de/MULTI2017), which takes place 
in Austin as part of the Models Conference (Sept. 17th-22nd), is to 
address these challenges and continue the community building established 
in the previous workshops. In particular, the goal is to encourage the 
community to delineate different approaches to multi-level modelling and 
define objective ways to evaluate their respective strengths/weaknesses. 
One key way of addressing this goal is to identify standard/canonical 
examples specially designed to exercise the abilities of multilevel 
modelling approaches. We encourage submissions on new concepts, 
implementation approaches and formalisms as well as submissions on 
controversial positions, requirements for evaluation criteria or 
case-study scenarios. Contributions in the area of tool building, 
multilevel modelling applications, canonical examples and educational 
material are equally welcome.

Possible topics include, but are not restricted to:

     the exact nature and semantics of elements in a multilevel 
hierarchy and how best to represent them
     the importance and role of potency and its variants such a 
durability and mutability
     transitioning from traditional modelling approaches/tools to 
multi-level approaches
     engineering domain-specific languages and complete tool support
     methods for designing multilevel models
     formal approaches to multilevel modelling
     experiences and challenges in providing tool support for multilevel 
modelling
     experiences and challenges in applying multilevel modelling 
techniques to large and/or real world problems
     model management languages (transformation, code generation etc.) 
in a multi-level setting
     comparisons of multilevel and two-level solutions for modelling 
problems
     criteria for comparing multilevel modelling approaches and 
evaluating their usability
     canonical multi-level modelling examples and challenges
     distinct and multiple viewpoints on multilevel models
     methods for developing multilevel systems and languages
     the management of changes in multilevel models
     innovative systems architectures enabled by multilevel languages
     multilevel modelling versus knowledge engineering and ontologies

To promote the exchange between different schools of multilevel 
modelling and to contribute to a consolidation of the field, this year’s 
MULTI will for the first time introduce a specific modelling challenge. 
The participants are asked to develop a multilevel model, or multilevel 
DSMLs respectively, to represent a domain that is provided in a natural 
language description. The solutions should account for certain 
requirements and are expected to be submitted in a given structure.


Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline: July 7th, 2017
Authors Notification: July 28th, 2017
Workshop: September 19th, 2017


-- 
Prof. Dr. Ulrich Frank
Chair of Information Systems and Enterprise Modelling
Director of IS:link
Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems
University of Duisburg-Essen
Universitätsstr. 9
D-45141 Essen
Tel.: +49(201) 183 4042
Fax: +49(201) 183 934042
e-mail: ulrich.frank at uni-due.de
http://www.wi-inf.uni-due.de/FGFrank/