Minitrack "Tools for Model Driven Development" at HICSS 40

January 3-6, 2007 at Hilton Waikoloa Village, Big Island, Hawaii                      

URL: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~limingz/hicss40/
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**Overview**

Model Driven Development (MDD) is gaining significant momentum in both the software industry and the software engineering academic community. The rapidly increasing maturity of various MDA/UML tools for MDD and Microsoft's introduction of the software factory initiative and the Domain Specific Language (DSL) support state-of-the-art engineering practices. Concurrently, leading academic research is exploring new MDD approaches such as aspect modelling, domain specific modelling, graph/model transformation, visual modelling and generative programming.

This minitrack will bring together leading academic researchers and MDD tool builders. It will provide a forum for discussion on the state-of-the-art and innovations in MDD technologies. The minitrack will explore the capabilities of existing MDD tools, and describe successful usage of MDD in industry. By understanding the capabilities and limitations of the state-of-the-art, the minitrack will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas on how MDD tools can incorporate new features from the research community to produce the next-generation of MDD technologies.

**Topic of Interests**

The topics of the mini track will include but not limited to:

* Tools for requirements modelling and traceability in MDD
* Approaches for variability modelling and software product lines
* Tools for modelling software architectures, components and services
* Case studies and experience reports describing the advantages and disadvantages of MDD
* Domain specific modelling in vertical domains (business specific domains)
* Best modelling practices for cross-cutting concerns, meta-models, and model integration
* Model transformation, code generation and model configuration technologies
* Model verification and validation
* Standardization issues in MDD
* MDD in the software development lifecycle
* Comparisons of different MDD approaches (e.g. MDA, DSL)
* MDD best practices

 
**Important Dates**

Abstract Submission: May 20, 2006
Paper Submission: June 15, 2006
Notification of Acceptance: August 15, 2006 Camera-ready : September 15, 2006

**Submission**

Authors may contact the minitrack co-chairs for expression of interests and content appropriateness at any time.  All papers must contain original material, not previously published or submitted for publication. HICSS will conduct double-blind reviews of each submitted paper.

Formatting guidelines and submission instructions will be found here (http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~limingz/hicss40/) and HICSS 40 web site (http://www.hicss.hawaii.edu/hicss_40/apahome40.htm) after April 15th, 2006.

 
**Organizers**

Liming Zhu (corresponding co-chair)  Liming.Zhu@nicta.com.au
Phone: +61 2 83745523 Fax: +61 2 83745520 Empirical Software Engineering, National ICT Australia, Bay 15, Locomotive Workshop, Australian Technology Park, Eveleigh NSW 1430, Sydney, Australia http://www.designpattern.org

Yan Liu, Jenny.Liu@nicta.com.au
Empirical Software Engineering, National ICT Australia http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~yliu/

Ian Gorton, Ian.Gorton@nicta.com.au
Empirical Software Engineering, National ICT Australia http://www.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~iango/home/IGHome.htm