11 September 2009
Hamburg, Germany
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MOCA'09
Call for Papers
Fifth International Workshop on
Modelling of Objects, Components, and Agents
http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/TGI/events/moca09/
Hamburg, Germany, 11th September 2009
organised by the
"Theoretical Foundations of Informatics" Group
at the University of Hamburg
Contact e-mail: moca09@informatik.uni-hamburg.de
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The workshop is co-located with
MATES 2009
The Seventh German conference on Multi-Agent System Technologies
http://jadex.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/mates/bin/view/MATES/Home
and
CLIMA-X 2009
10th International Workshop on Computational Logic in Multi-Agent Systems
http://jadex.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/mates/bin/view/CLIMA/Home
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Important Dates:
Deadline for submissions: July 17, 2009
Notification of acceptance: August 14, 2009
Deadline for final papers: August 28, 2009
Workshop: September 11, 2009
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Scope
Modelling is THE central task in informatics. Models are used to
capture, analyse, understand, discuss, evaluate, specify, design,
simulate, validate, test, verify and implement systems. Modelling needs
an adequate repertoire of concepts, formalisms, languages, techniques
and tools. This enables addressing distributed, concurrent and complex
systems.
Objects, components, and agents are fundamental units to organise
models. They are also fundamental concepts of the modelling process.
Even though software engineers intensively use models based on these
fundamental units, and models are the subjects of theoretical research,
the relations and potential mutual enhancements between theoretical and
practical models have not been sufficiently investigated. There is
still the need for better modelling languages, standards and tools.
Important research areas are for example UML, BPEL, Petri nets, process
algebras, or different kinds of logics. Application areas like business
processes, (Web) services, production processes, organisation of
systems, communication, cooperation, cooperation, ubiquity, mobility
etc. will support the domain dependent modelling perspectives.
Therefore, the workshop addresses all relations between theoretical
foundations of models on the one hand and objects, components, and
agents on the other hand with respect to modelling in general. The
intention is to gather research and application directions to have a
lively mutual exchange of ideas, knowledge, viewpoints, and
experiences.
The multiple perspectives on modelling and models in informatics are
most welcome, since the presentation of them will lead to intensive
discussions. Also the way objects, components, and agents are use to
build architectures / general system structures and executing units /
general system behaviours will provide new ideas for other areas.
Therefore, we invite a wide variety of contributions, which will be
reviewed by the PC-members who reflect important areas and perspectives
for the Modelling of Objects, Components, and Agents (MOCA).
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Topics
We look for contributions describing original research in topics
related to formal methods in combination with object-orientation,
components, or agents addressing open problems or presenting new ideas.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Uses of models of objects, components, and agents:
design, specification, analysis, synthesis, composition,
transformation, testing, validation, simulation, verification,
assessment, software engineering, software development,
re-engineering, code generation, prototyping, configuration,
presentation, evolution, model checking, etc.
* Concepts used within modelling of objects, components, and agents:
objects (OOP, OOD, OOSE), components (CBD, CBSE), agents (AOP,
AOSE, ABM), multi-agent systems (MAS), services, roles,
interactions, organisations, processes, etc.
* Concepts to be modelled with objects, components, and agents:
software architecture, intelligence, coordination, negotiation,
cooperation, organisation, encapsulation business objects,
e-commerce, workflows, web services, flexible manufactoring, bio
informatics, etc.
* Techniques for modelling of objects, components, and agents:
formal languages, visual languages, Unified Modelling Language
(UML), Business Process Execution Language (BPEL), object-oriented
Petri nets (OOPN), agent-oriented Petri nets, graph grammars and
transformations, process algebras, logics, domain-specific
languages (DSL), architecture description languages (ADL),
event-driven process chains (EPC), discrete event systems,
comparisons between modelling techniques, heterogeneous designs,
multi-formalism modelling
* Properties of models of objects, components, and agents:
concurrency, distribution, mobility, autonomy, emotions,
complexity, adaptability, self-organising, reliability,
consistency, safety, deadlock prevention, evolution, scalability,
etc.
* Modelling methodologies, paradigms and principles
* Embedding of formal techniques in traditional software engineering
approaches
* Tools and implementation technology in the fields mentioned above
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Submissions
The program committee invites submissions of full contributions (10 -
20 pages) or short contributions (up to 6 pages). For your submission
in PDF format please use the online conference management system at
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=moca09
Just create a new account and then upload your paper. (Later you will
be able to see your reviews there.)
Submission Guidelines
Please use the LaTeX document class svmult.cls for your contributions.
Please also use BibTeX for your references (in particular for the final
papers). An up-to-date version of svmult.cls together with extensive
documentation can be found at
ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/compgl/mult
or directly at
ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/compgl/mult.zip
Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings which will
appear as a technical report of the Department of Informatics,
University of Hamburg, and which will be available at the workshop.
The submissions will be evaluated by the international programme
committee.
It is planned to publish post proceedings after a further review
process in a book, dedicated to the workshop topics.
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For further information on MOCA'09 contact the programme commitee by
email at moca09@informatik.uni-hamburg.de