2nd CfP: 2nd Workshop on Transforming and Weaving OWL Ontologies in MDE/MDA (TWOMDE'09) at MoDELS 2009

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                           Second Workshop on
            Transforming and Weaving OWL Ontologies in MDE/MDA

                               TWOMDE2009

                            CALL FOR PAPERS

           at the ACM/IEEE 12th International Conference on Model
           Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MoDELS 2009)

             http://www.uni-koblenz.de/confsec/twomde2009/

    IMPORTANT DATES
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    * July   25, 2009:  Papers submission
    * August 30, 2009:  Author notification
    * September 15, 2009:  Submission of camera-ready papers

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AIMS AND SCOPE
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The interest in integrating Ontologies and Software Engineering has gained more attention with
commercial and scientific initiatives. The Semantic Web Best Practice and Deployment Working Group
(SWBPD) in W3C included a Software Engineering Task Force (SETF) to explore how Semantic Web and
Software Engineering can cooperate. The Object Management Group (OMG) has an Ontology Platform
Special Interest Group (PSIG) aiming at formalizing semantics in software by knowledge
representation and related technologies. The concrete results of such initiatives are the
specification of the OMG Ontology Definition Metamodel, the OWL2 Metamodel, the introduction to
Ontology Driven Architectures and a Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers.

Nevertheless, as MDE spreads, disciplines like model transformation, domain specific languages
(DSLs) and traceability become essential in order to support different kinds of models in an model
driven environment. Understanding the role of ontology technologies like knowledge representation,
automated reasoning, dynamic classification and consistence checking in these fields is crucial to
leverage the development of such disciplines. Thus, we highlight the following open questions: How
can the scientific and technical results around ontologies, ontology languages and their
corresponding reasoning technologies be used fruitfully in MDE? What is the role of ontologies in
supporting model transformation or traceability? How can ontologies improve designing DSLs? Are
current query languages able to query both kinds of models?

Discussions about these and related questions will be supported by this workshop. TWOMDE2009 aims at
providing a forum for discussing the application of different aspects of ontologies to enhance Model
Driven Engineering.

The intended audience embraces members of the modeling community with experience or interest in
Model Driven Engineering and in Knowledge Representation. Specifically, but not only, the
participation of experts in technologies related with UML, MOF, ATL, QVT, RDF or OWL is highly welcome.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
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TWOMDE2009 is the exclusive forum at a MDE conference to address the application of ontologies in
model driven development. The potential of this field has just started being explored.

Although we had papers covering different aspects of MDE, the employment of automated reasoning
services to make use of formal descriptions provided by ontology languages has practically not been
explored. Moreover, prominent topics in MDE like model transformation, traceability and query
languages were not pondered by the papers of the first edition.

For this edition, we expect more use cases in a wider range of topics. We would like to see
successful industry use cases and quality models to evaluate the role of ontologies in MDE.

Topics of interest are but not exclusive:

   * RDF metamodel repository: interfaces and models to store, retrieve, query and manage MOF/Ecore
metadata in RDF stores.

   * Metamodeling support of semantic structures: improvements on metamodeling facilities for
representing richer real-world semantics, like OWL or OWL2.

   * Reasoning over MOF-based models using ontologies: verification and validation of models using
ontologies; application of Description Logics reasoning in UML diagrams or MOF/Ecore models, in
order to enhance and to support models and metamodels at design time as well as at runtime.

   * Application of ontologies in model transformation: usage of ontologies and reasoning to
automatically generate model transformations; validation of model transformations; use of reasoning
in model transformation rules.

   * Reasoning and query languages for integrated models: development or integration of query
languages able to retrieve objects of MOF-based models and OWL-based models; reasoning approaches or
algorithms regarding both semantics of Description Logics semantics of and MOF-based models.

   * Integration of modeling standards and metamodeling of ontology technologies: integration
approaches like aspect-oriented programming to weave modeling standards like MOF, Ecore, UML, OCL,
ODM, and SWRL; development, improvement or integration of metamodels for ontology technologies, for
example OWL, SWRL, F-Logic.

   * Ontology driven software development: ontology support to web service orchestration; software
architectures and methodologies for developing semantic web services and agents; reuse of web
service ontologies or application of reasoning in specifying execution logics of orchestration.

   * MDE tools using ontologies: implementations of MDE tools relying on ontologies or on reasoning
services.

   * Semantic support to Domain Specific Languages: integration of metamodeling and ontologies in
order to provide abstract syntax and formal semantics for DSL.

   * Ontology engineering with MDA/MDE techniques: application of MDA/MDE techniques in order to
support ontology engineering activities like ontology pruning, ontology refactoring, or ontology
measurement.

   * Ontology connectors to system models: methods and techniques for integrating ontology
constructs like classes and properties with MOF-based constructs like classes, properties or operations.

   * Application of Ontologies in traceability and provenance: usage of model annotations,
ontologies and reasoning in order to improve traceability between MOF-based models.


SUBMISSION
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   * Full Papers: describe concrete contributions validated by appropriate evaluation. Full paper
submissions must not exceed 15 pages.

   * Short Papers: comprehend research-in-progress, industrial experience and position papers. Short
paper submissions does not exceed 6 pages.

   * Posters and Demos: authors are invited to submit a three-page paper describing tools involving
ontologies in MDE.

All papers must be submitted online using the submission website
(http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=twomde2009). Submissions must be in PDF, formatted in
the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).


PROCEEDINGS
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Final versions of accepted papers will be published electronically in the CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Series. Revised selected papers will be submitted to the LNCS MoDELS Satellite Proceedings. Select
papers will be invited to submit an extended version to the special issue of the Journal on Software
& System Modeling (under negotiation).


ORGANIZATION
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   * Fernando Silva Parreiras (DE), University of Koblenz-Landau
   * Jeff Z. Pan (GB), University of Aberdeen
   * Uwe Assmann (DE), Dresden University of Technology


TENTATIVE PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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   * Alexander Paar (DE), University of Karlsruhe (TH)
   * Andreas Winter (DE), University of Mainz
   * Bernhard Rumpe (DE), Braunschweig University of Technology
   * Christian Kop (AT), Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
   * Colin Atkinson (DE), University of Mannheim
   * Daniel Oberle (DE), SAP Research
   * Dragan Gasevic (CA), Simon Fraser University Surrey
   * Elisa F. Kendall (US), Sandpiper Software, Inc.
   * Gerd Wagner (DE), Brandenburg University of Technology at Cottbus
   * Gerti Kappel (AT), Vienna University of Technology
   * Giancarlo Guizzardi (IT), ISTC-CNR
   * Harald Kuehn (AT), BOC Information Systems GmbH
   * Holger Knublauch (US), TopQuadrant
   * Ken Baclawski (US), Northeastern University
   * Ladjel Bellatreche (FR), LISI ENSMA
   * Luis Ferreira Pires (NL), University of Twente
   * Peter Haase (DE), University of Karlsruhe (TH)
   * Phil Tetlow (GB), IBM Business Consulting Services
   * Saartje Brockmans (DE), Ontoprise
   * Steffen Staab (DE), University of Koblenz-Landau


CONTACT
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Please do not hesitate to contact us, if you have any question regarding this
event.

Fernando Silva Parreiras, parreiras@uni-koblenz.de


SPONSORS
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EU STReP MOST, http://www.most-project.eu/

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