Call for Papers

                            C A L L  F O R  C O N T R I B U T I O N S

	6th Educators’ Symposium @ MODELS 2010

	  “Software Modeling in Education”

	  http://edusymp.big.tuwien.ac.at/

Satellite Event at ACM/IEEE 13th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering, Languages, and Systems (MODELS 2010) Oslo, Norway, October 3-8, 2010

Goals:

In software engineering, the emerging model-driven development (MDD) paradigm is one promising solution for handling the complexity of software systems. Industry and academia successfully implemented several approaches and provide expressive modeling languages and mature tools for the practical application of MDD techniques. Nevertheless, the widespread adoption advances slowly. In order to fully exploit the power of MDD, developers are needed who recognize the potential of models and who do not consider them as pretty pictures only.

Although most computer science curricula include some education in modeling software systems and therefore provide the basic building blocks for MDD, the whole spectrum of model-driven development is rarely captured. The sixth edition of this symposium will focus on approaches to integrate MDD into modern computer science curricula and on the means necessary to communicate the paradigm shift away from traditional software engineering.

Scope:

We encourage papers and posters on the following specific topics:

• Approaches used to integrate modeling and meta-modeling into the software engineering curricula in academia.
• Comparative studies of the tools used to support modeling and meta-modeling in academia.
• Studies that assess approaches used to integrate MDD into existing software engineering curricula.
• The impact modeling has on students’ ability to think abstractly.
• Approaches used to train practitioners on using modeling techniques in industry.
• Industry’s assessment of the MDD training done in academia.

We also encourage papers and posters on the following general topics: * Introducing modeling into early programming courses. * MDD repositories to support pedagogy. * Approaches to evaluate the effectiveness of teaching modeling and meta-modeling techniques. * Case studies on teaching modeling and meta-modeling techniques. * “Toy” modeling projects and teaching artifacts applied in software engineering education.

Participants:

We invite contributions from instructors, researchers, and practitioners from both academia and industry interested in MDD and using modeling in software engineering.

Activities:

The symposium will consist of long paper presentations, short paper presentations, a poster session, breakout sessions, and a panel discussion.

Submission and Publication:

Full Papers: These contributions should be submitted electronically in pdf and be a maximum of 12 pages in ECEASST format (see EduSymp Website for further information). These papers should be research papers or experience reports presenting contributions in the field of MDD education or the use of models in software engineering education and training. Full papers are encouraged to have an experimental section or a case study to evaluate the effectiveness of the research or the presented class room experiences.

Short Position Papers, Extended Abstracts: These contributions should be a maximum of 5 pages, Extended Abstracts should be a maximum of 2 pages using a format similar to the full papers (see above). These papers should present authors’ position on one or more of the topics of the symposium, based on certain teaching experiences or preliminary research results on MDD education. Extended Abstracts are presented within poster sessions.

Papers for the symposium will be selected based on the novelty of the ideas or solutions, the impact of modeling during software development education, and relevance to the topics for the symposium.

All papers should be submitted via Easychair.

Publications: Accepted papers will be published in the Electronic Communications of the EASST with an ISSN. Selected papers will be published in the Journal of Computer Science Education.

Important Dates:

• Full Paper Submission Deadline: June 25, 2010
• Short Paper Submission Deadline: June 25, 2010
• Notification of Acceptance: July 30, 2010
• Camera Ready version: August 13, 2010

Contact:

• Email: models2010-edusymp AT ifi.uio.no
• Web: http://edusymp.big.tuwien.ac.at/

Organizers:

• Peter J. Clarke, Florida International University, USA
• Martina Seidl, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

Program Committee:

• Jordi Cabot, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
• Fabio Costa, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil
• Gregor Engels, University of Paderborn, Germany
• Robert France, Colorado State University, USA
• Martin Gogolla, University of Bremen, Germany
• Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA
• Øystein Haugen, Senior Researcher SINTEF, Norway
• Gerti Kappel, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Ludwik Kuzniarz, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
• Timothy Lethbridge, University of Ottawa, Canada
• Werner Retschitzegger, Johannes Kepler University, Linz, Austria
• Jean-Paul Rigault, University of Nice, France
• Patricia Roberts, University of Westminster, UK
• Michal Smialek, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland
• Daniel Varro, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary