International Workshop on Multi-Level Modelling
SoSyM Theme Issue on Multi-Level Modeling
6th International Workshop on Multi-Level Modelling
MULTI 2019, Monday 16th September, Munich, Germany
The premier event for researchers and practitioners who work on multilevel modeling and multilevel software development.
Multilevel language architectures represent a new object-oriented paradigm both for conceptual modeling and software engineering. Different from traditional approaches, they allow for an arbitrary number of classification levels and introduce other concepts that foster reuse and adaptability. While multilevel languages and tools have reached a considerable maturity, the field still offers numerous challenges. The MULTI workshop series is dedicated to bring together experts who develop and apply multilevel language technologies as well as those who focus on specific analysis and design methods or on economic aspects of this new paradigm.
Multilevel modelling is an emerging new modelling paradigm that offers exciting new perspectives not only for conceptual modelling, but also for the development of software systems that are integrated with models of themselves. Multilevel DSMLs allow for combining the benefits of economies of scale with the productivity enabled by concepts that were designed for very specific domains. Multilevel modelling has now been used successfully in a wide range of projects.
The MULTI workshop series is the premier event for researchers and practitioners who work in the field of multilevel languages and tools or are interested in applying multilevel technologies. It is aimed at providing a platform for exchanging ideas and promoting the further development of multilevel languages, methods and tools. In particular, the goal is to encourage the community to delineate different approaches to multilevel modelling and define objective ways to evaluate their respective strengths/weaknesses.
Multi-level modeling represents a significant extension to the traditional two-level object-oriented paradigm with the potential to dramatically improve upon the utility, reliability and complexity of models. Different from conventional approaches, they allow for an arbitrary number of classification levels and introduce other concepts that foster expressiveness, reuse and adaptability. A key aspect of the multi-level modeling paradigm is the use of entities that are simultaneously types and instances, a feature which has consequences for conceptual modeling, language engineering and for the development of model-based software systems.
The objectives of the MULTI series is to provide a forum for the multi-level modelling community to address the foundations of multi-level modelling approaches and support future multi-level modelers through better DSMLs, tools, methods and guidelines. The workshop will encourage the presentation of case studies and tool demonstrations. To achieve this goal, a significant proportion of time will be devoted to discussions. This will facilitate the development of a community consensus while also giving participants a platform to discuss their individual ideas and justify funding through paper presentations.
Possible topics include, but are not restricted to:
Four kinds of papers are solicited (in IEEE format): regular papers (max. 10 pages), tool-demo papers (max. 5 pages), position papers (max. 5 pages), and Challenge papers (max 10 pages + up to 5 pages to include important model fragments which demonstrate the solution; please see the challenge description and its requirements here)
Papers should be submitted via Easychair. Accepted papers will be published as IEEE online proceedings and indexed in DBLP. Authors submit their papers as PDF files to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=multi2019.
Federal University of Espírito Santo, Brazil
Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Bergen, Norway
Manfred Jeusfeld (University of Skövde, Sweden)
Monika Kaczmarek-Heß (University of Duisburg-Essen)
Yngve Lamo (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway)
Fernando Macías (University of Extremadura, Spain)
Bernd Neumayr (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
Mario Nolte (University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany)
Chris Partridge (Brunel University, UK)
Alessandro Rossini (PwC, Norway)
Adrian Rutle (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway)
Michael Schrefl (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
Markus Stumptner (University of South Australia, Australia)
Manuel Wimmer (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria)
Paper Submission Deadline
Authors Notification
Camera-ready Papers
Workshop
Session 1 09:00-10:30 | Welcome and Opening
| 15 min |
On the Rules for Inheritance in LML by Arne Lange and Colin Atkinson | 30 min | |
A Foundation for the Composition of Multilevel Domain-Specific Languages by Alejandro Rodríguez, Adrian Rutle, Lars Michael Kristensen and Francisco Durán | 30 min | |
DeepTelos Demonstration by Manfred Jeusfeld (Tool demo) | 15 min | |
10:30-11:00 | Coffee Break | |
Session 2 11:00-12:30 | Session Chair: Adrian Rutle | |
By multi-layer to multi-level modeling by Zoltán Theisz, Sándor Bácsi, Gergely Mezei and Ferenc Attila Somogyi | 30 min | |
Preserving Multi-Level Semantics in Conventional Two-Level Modeling Techniques by João Paulo A. Almeida, Fernando Musso, Victorio A. Carvalho, Claudenir Fonseca and Giancarlo Guizzardi | 30 min | |
Coordinate Systems: Level Ascending Ontological Options by Chris Partridge, Andrew Mitchell, Michael Loneragan, Hayden Atkinson, Sergio de Cesare and Mesbah Khan | 30 min | |
12:30-14:00 | Lunch | |
Session 3 14:00-15:30 | Session Chair: Manuel Wimmer | |
A Multilevel Modelling Approach for Tourism Flows Detection by Maria Teresa Rossi, Martina De Sanctis, Ludovico Iovino and Adrian Rutle
| 30 min | |
Applying Multilevel Modeling to the Development of Geographic Information Systems by Suilen H. Alvarado, Alejandro Cortiñas, Miguel R. Luaces, Oscar Pedreira and Ángeles S. Places | 30 min | |
The MULTI Process Challenge by João Paulo A. Almeida, Adrian Rutle, Manuel Wimmer and Thomas Kühne | 30 min | |
15:30-16:00 | Coffee Break | |
Session 4 16:00-17:30 | Challenge responses and plenary discussion - Session Chair: Joao-Paolo Almeida | |
DeepTelos for ConceptBase: a contribution to the MULTI process challenge by Manfred Jeusfeld | 15 min | |
Multi-level modeling with DMLA -- A contribution to the MULTI Process challenge by Ferenc A. Somogyi, Gergely Mezei, Dániel Urbán, Zoltan Theisz and Sándor Bácsi | 15 min | |
Multi-Level Modelling of Business Processes. A Contribution to the MULTI Challenge 2019 Using the FMMLx by Ulrich Frank | 15 min | |
Multilevel Modelling with MultEcore: A contribution to the MULTI Process challenge by Alejandro Rodríguez and Fernando Macías | 15 min | |
Plenary session - Session Chairs: João Paulo Almeida, Adrian Rutle, Manuel Wimmer | ||
Present and future of multi-level modeling | 30 min |
This challenge is intended to allow submitters to demonstrate the use of multi-level modeling techniques and enable the comparison of submissions and hence framework/language capabilities. The multi-level modeling community is invited to respond to this challenge with papers describing solutions to the challenge. Authors should emphasize the merits of their solutions according to the aspects defined in this challenge description. The challenge follows up on the MULTI Bicycle Challenge which was used in MULTI 2017 and MULTI 2018, and reuses some criteria that were established in these previous editions.
Despite the similar criteria, the subject domain has been changed entirely and new criteria have been added which are intended to increase opportunities for languages and tools to exercise their capabilities.
The challenge consists of a case description and a set of comparison criteria; following these should make it easy to compare and relate different solutions. Contributions clearly addressing the review criteria described in this document will be included in the workshop proceedings. The workshop organizers plan to invite selected contributions to a special journal issue.
We solicit challenge solution papers of max 10 pages + up to 5 pages to include important model fragments which demonstrate the solution, in IEEE format, submitted to MULTI 2019 EasyChair site.
Holiday Inn Munich – City Centre
The Workshop MULTI 2019 is part of the ACM/IEEE 22nd
International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems