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                       Call for Papers

      9th International Workshop on Graph Transformation 
         and Visual Modeling Techniques (GT-VMT 2010)

            http://www.cs.le.ac.uk/events/gtvmt10/

    Satellite Event of ETAPS 2010, Cyprus -- March 20-21, 2010
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* Scope *
  
  GT-VMT 2010 is the ninth workshop of a series that serves as a forum
  for  all researchers  and  practitioners interested  in  the use  of
  graph-based notation,  techniques, and tools  for the specification,
  modeling,  validation,  manipulation  and  verification  of  complex
  systems.  The  aim  of   the  workshop  is  to  promote  engineering
  approaches  that provide  effective  sound tool  support for  visual
  modeling languages, enhancing formal reasoning at the semantic level
  (e.g.,   for  model   analysis,   transformation,  and   consistency
  management)  in different domains,  such as  UML, Petri  nets, Graph
  Transformation or Business Process/Workflow Models.

  This  year's workshop will  have a  special focus  on visualization,
  simulation, and verification of concurrent and distributed systems.

  Concurrency and  distribution are among  the most vital  concerns to
  nowadays computing  due to the importance  of interconnected systems
  and       the      increased      diffusion       of      multi-core
  architectures. Nevertheless, concurrent  and distributed systems are
  hard  to   specify,  design,  verify  and   implement.   Visual  and
  graph-based techniques may be  exploited to cope with the complexity
  in  engineering of  and reasoning  about concurrent  and distributed
  systems.  In   fact,  graph-based  approaches   have  recently  been
  successfully applied  to represent several  computational aspects of
  different classes of distributed systems ranging from mobile systems
  a-la  pi-calculus, to coordination  in service-oriented  systems, to
  communication  networks.  The  aim  of the  workshop  is to  promote
  graph-  and   visual-based  approaches  for   modelling,  designing,
  implementing   and  reasoning   about  concurrent   and  distributed
  systems.  The general  areas of  interest range  from non-functional
  aspects  (e.g.,  security,   quantitive  aspects),  to  (semi)formal
  modelling  frameworks,  to  visual  techniques for  distributed  and
  concurrent systems.

  Suggested topics of interest include but are not limited to

    - visual and graph-based languages for distributed systems
    - graph models of distributed computations
    - verification and validation of distributed systems with visual techniques
    - graphical static & dynamic analysis of distributed systems
    - graphs for architectural design languages for distributed systems
    - visual techniques for modeling process choreographies and distributed workflows
    - visual/graph-based approaches to distributed coordination mechanisms
    - graph-based semantics models of novel distributed architectures (e.g., service oriented, GRID, P2P computing, and context aware/adaptive distributed applications)
    - model transformations of graphical into textual formalisms for distributed systems 
    - model transformations and their application in model-driven development of distributed and concurrent systems
    - relating models/visual tools for concurrency/distribution
    - case studies and novel application areas
    - tool support and efficient algorithms
    - ...

* Important Dates *
December 11, 2009	Abstract Submission
December 18, 2009	Paper Submission
January 4, 2010	 	Notification of Acceptance
January 15, 2010	Camera ready version
March 20-21, 2010	Workshop


* Submissions * The  proceedings of GT-VMT10 will be  published in the
  journal  Electronic  Communications  of  the  EASST.  A  preliminary
  version  of  the proceedings  will  be  available  at the  workshop.
  Papers should  not exceed 12  pages. For preparing  your manuscript,
  the EASST templates can be downloaded at

     http://eceasst.cs.tu-berlin.de/template/

  The online submission and review system is available at

     http://www.easychair.org/GTVMT2010/


* Chairs *
  Jochen Küster, IBM Zürich Research, JKU [at] zurich.ibm.com
  Emilio Tuosto, University of Leicester, emilio [at] mcs.le.ac.uk


* Program Committee *
  Paolo Baldan (University of Padova, Italy)  
  Artur Boronat (University of Leicester, UK)
  Andrea Corradini (University of Pisa, Italy)  
  Claudia Ermel (TU Berlin, Germany)
  Gregor Engels (University of Paderborn, Germany)
  Reiko Heckel (University of Leicester, UK)
  Thomas Hildebrandt (ITU) 
  Holger Giese (HPI Potsdam, Germany)
  Barbara König (University of Duisburg-Essen)  
  Jochen Küster (IBM Research - Zurich) [co-chair] 
  Alberto Lluch Lafuente (University of Pisa, Italy)  
  Juan de Lara (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain)  
  Mark Minas (Universität der Bundeswehr München, Germany)
  Francesco Parisi-Presicce (University of Rome, Italy)
  Arend Rensink (University of Twente, Netherlands)
  Gabriele Taentzer (University of Marburg, Germany)
  Emilio Tuosto (University of Leicester) [co-chair] 
  Dániel Varró (TU Budapest, Hungary)
  Erhard Weinell (RWTH Aachen University) 
  Albert Zündorf (University of Kassel, Germany)