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** Conference proceedings postponed until after the event*
* New call for papers deadline May 2nd, 2011 !**

For a number of logistic reasons, including overlap with the SAM 2010 LNCS
proceedings, the SDL2011 programme committee decided to to postpone the
publication of the LNCS SDL2011 proceedings until after the event - around
September 2011. To be fair to everyone, the call for papers is reopened with a
new date May 2nd. Please find below the revised call for papers.



15th International Conference on System Design Languages of the SDL Forum
Society "Integrating system and software modeling"

5-7 July, 2011

University of Toulouse, France
Institut de Recherche en Informatique de Toulouse (IRIT)
www.irit.fr/sdl2011


The SDL Forum is held every 2 years and is one of the most important open events
in the calendar for anyone from academia or industry involved in System Design
Languages and modeling technologies. It is a primary conference for discussion
of the evolution and use of these languages. The most recent innovations,
trends, experiences and concerns in the field are discussed and presented.
System and software modeling, specification, and analysis of distributed
systems, embedded systems, communication systems, and real-time systems are
addressed. The 15th SDL Forum will be held during the second week of July 2011
at the University of Toulouse, France.

The SDL Forum Society that runs the Forum is a non-profit organization
established by language users and tool providers to promote the ITU-T
Specification and Description Language (SDL), Message Sequence Charts
(MSC) and related System Design Languages (including but not limited to UML,
ASN.1, TTCN, SysML and URN), to provide and disseminate information on the
development and use of the languages, to support education on the languages and
to plan and organize the "SDL Forum" series and events to promote the languages.
The SDL Forum Society is accredited by ITU-T as an organization contributing to
the System Design Language standards.


Objectives:

After an impressive growth in the use of modeling and model-driven engineering
in software design, the last few years have seen this trend extending to system
engineering. The motivation is that many actors in the industry, working on
complex, distributed, embedded systems, identify the software crisis to be often
rooted in a system crisis. The formalization of system engineering models and
approaches is considered to be one of the major factors for further gains in
productivity, quality and time-to-market for such complex systems. Although an
ancient discipline, system engineering is currently renewing at high speed,
driven forward by the maturation of model-driven approaches and by new standards
such as OMG’s Systems Modeling Language (SysML), or various architecture
description languages (ADLs). As a consequence, any contemporary, complete
development process usually integrates a multitude of types of models, and
necessitates their coherence to be handled so that multitude of tool
“bridges” can be used.

In this context, there are many issues that remain to be tackled by the language
and modeling community, such as the semantics of system models, the refinement
of system designs into hardware/software implementations, or the integration of
system and software design models. Papers on these topics are particularly
welcome at SDL2011.

The conference program will include:
- keynotes by invited speakers
- tutorials
- presentation of research papers
- presentation of industrial experiences
- tool demonstrations and posters
- networking opportunities

The intended audience includes users of system and software modeling techniques
in industrial, research and standardization contexts, as well as tool vendors
and language researchers.


Topics:

The aim of the forum is to anticipate and influence the future trends and to
focus on issues that are important to its expected delegates.
Authors are therefore invited to submit papers on topics related to System
Design Languages including the following non-exclusive list of
topics:

- System engineering models: semantics of system models, refinement of system
designs into hardware/software implementations, integration of system and
software design models, non-functional aspects (such as performance, quality of
service, real-time aspects, security, etc.) in system models;

- Model-driven development: analysis and transformation of models, reuse
approaches, verification and validation of models, systematic testing based on
and applied to models;

- Industrial application reports: industrial usage and experience reports,
applying methods, tool engineering and frameworks, domain-specific applicability
(such as aerospace, automotive, telecommunication, control, networking);

- Evolution of development tools and languages: domain-specific profiles and
extensions, modular language design, semantics and evaluation, methodology for
application, standardization activities;

- Modeling in multi-core and parallel applications: experience reports, overview
of modeling approaches targeting specifically multi-core and parallel
architectures, the use of modeling in high-performance computing, etc.

- Education and Promotion of System Design Languages: Teaching design languages,
methodology for the use of design languages, etc..

Papers with an industry perspective are particularly encouraged. An important
aspect for such papers is the effectiveness of the languages, tools and methods
used, particularly if measurements can be quoted and/or there is a comparison
with previous similar work. If measurements are not available, another factor is
what features (or lack of features) of languages, tools or methods produce a
significant benefit (or difficulty). A paper that mainly describes the design or
development of a product is unlikely to be accepted, unless the application is a
new and interesting domain for the use of the languages or tools or methods.
The Program Committee therefore strongly suggests that the authors of
application papers submit an abstract in advance of the submission deadline, so
that feedback can be provided, which may include suggesting collaborative
authors to make the paper more useful to others.


Submission policy:

Submissions should be previously unpublished, written in English, no longer than
16 pages (including the illustrations and bibliography) and using the LNCS style
as described in
ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llnc...authors/typeinst.pdf.

It is intended to publish papers in the LaTeX format that is preferred for LNCS,
therefore authors are encouraged to adopt this format as soon as possible. Other
formats are acceptable at the submission stage.

Submissions in the following categories are solicited:

- Full papers describing original, unpublished results (max. 16 pages in LNCS
style)
- Short papers, describing work in progress (max. 8 pages in LNCS style)
- Posters and exhibits (submit poster and/or 400 word abstract)

Important: Electronic submission in PDF format is mandatory.
To submit a paper, visit: edas.info/newPaper.php?c=9793 .
Please refer to the conference homepage for more information.

The SDL Forum Program Committee will evaluate the technical contribution of each
submission as well as its accessibility to the audience. Papers will be judged
on significance, originality, substance, correctness, and clarity.

Accepted papers must be presented at SDL2011 by one of the authors. As in
previous editions, the SDL2011 proceedings will be published in the Springer
LNCS series.


Important Dates:


*- Paper submission deadline: 02 May, 2011
- Notification of acceptance: 16 May, 2011
- Pre-event version deadline: 01 June, 2011
*- Poster and exhibit proposals: 15 May, 2011
- Conference and related events: 05-07 July, 2011
*- Final version for LNCS: around 21st July, 2011
*


Organizers:

Ileana Ober IRIT, University of Toulouse (co-chair) Iulian Ober IRIT, University
of Toulouse (co-chair) Rick Reed SDL Forum Society Reinhard Gotzhein Secretary
SDL Forum Society Martin von Löwis Treasurer SDL Forum Society

Program Committee:

Daniel Amyot University of Ottawa, Canada Attile Bilgic Ruhr-University of
Bochum, Germany Marius BozgaVerimag - University of Grenoble, France Rolv
BraekNTNU, Norway Reinhard BrocksHTW Saarland, Germany Jean-Michel BruelIRIT -
University of Toulouse, France Laurent DoldiAeroconseil, France Anders EkIBM
Rational, Sweden Stein-Erik EllevsethABB Corporate Research, Norway Joachim
FischerHumboldt University of Berlin, Germany Pau Fonseca i CasasUniversity of
Catalonia, Spain Emmanuel GaudinPragmaDev, France Birgit GeppertAvaya Labs, USA
Abdelouahed GherbiUniversity of Quebec, Canada Reinhard GotzheinUniversity of
Kaiserslautern, Germany Jens GrabowskiUniversity of Göttingen, Germany Peter
GraubmannSiemens, Germany Øysten HaugenSINTEF, Norway Loïc HélouëtINRIA
Rennes, France Peter HerrmannNTNU, Norway Dieter HogrefeUniversity of
Göttingen, Germany Michalea HuhnTU Braunschweig, Germany Clive JervisMotorola,
USA Ferhat KhendekConcordia University, Canada Tae-Hyong KimKIT, Korea Hartmut
KönigBTU Cottbus, Germany Alexander KraasT-Mobile, Germany Frank KraemerNTNU,
Norway Finn KristoffersenCinderella APs, Denmark Thomas KuhnFraunhofer IESE,
Germany Yves Le TraonLuxembourg University, Luxembourg Philippe LeblancIBM,
France Martin von LöwisUniversity of Postdam, Germany David LugatoCEA CESTA,
France Zoubir MammeriIRIT - University of Toulouse Anna MedveUniversity of
Pannonia, Hungary Pedro Merino GómezUniversity of Malaga, Spain Tommi
MikkonenTampere University, Finland Birger Møller-PedersenUniversity of Oslo,
Norway Ostap MonkewichOMCI, Canada Gunter MussbacherUniversity of Ottawa, Canada
Elie NajmENST, France Ileana OberIRIT - University of Toulouse, France (Co-
Chair) Iulian OberIRIT - University of Toulouse, France (Co-Chair) Javier
Poncela GonzálesUniversity of Malaga, Spain Andreas PrinzAgder University
College, Norway Rick ReedTSE, UK Laurent RiouxThales, France Manuel Rodriguez-
Cayetano University of Valladolid, Spain Nicolas RouquetteNASA JPL, USA Richard
SandersSINTEF, Norway Amardeo SarmaNEC, Germany Ina SchieferdeckerTU
Berlin/Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany Bran SelicMalina Software, Canada Edel
SherrattUniversity of Wales, UK Thomas WeigertUniversity of Missouri-Rolla, USA
Frank WeilUniquesoft, USA Edith WernerUniversity of Göttingen, Germany