Call for Papers

TWOMDE2008 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

Topics of interest involves but are not limited to:

  • 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 OWL/RDFS 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 OWL/RDFS 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 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 OWL/RDFS 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 OWL/RDFS ontologies in Traceability and Provenance: usage of model annotations, ontologies and reasoning in order to improve traceability between different MOF-based models, supporting model driven engineering activities.

Intended Audience

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.

Paper Format

  • Full Papers: Full papers describe significant contributions validated by appropriate evaluation. Full paper submissions must not exceed 15 pages.
  • Short Papers: Short paper submissions 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. Submissions must be in PDF, formatted in the style of the Springer Publications format for Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

All submissions will be reviewed by the workshop committee. Accepted submissions will be made available from the workshop web site; these may be updated with final versions after the reviewing process. Accepted papers must be presented at the workshop by one of the authors.

Proceedings

Final versions of accepted papers will be published in CEUR-WS and distributed among the audience of the workshop. Presentation materials from the workshop will also be placed on the web site.

Revised selected papers will be submitted to the LNCS MoDELS Satellite Proceedings. The select papers will be invited to submit an extended version to the special issue of the Journal on Software & System Modeling (under negotiation).

Workshop Location

The workshop is co-located with ACM/IEEE 12th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MoDELS'09) which provides the venue information to all participants.