I have just received the confirmation of a paper submitted to the International Symposium on Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence (DCAI'09), organized into the 10th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (IWANN'09). This meeting will be held at the University of Salamanca in June 10-12th, 2009.
Special thanks to Vicente García Díaz, Oscar Sanjuán Martínez, Héctor Fernández Fernández and Gloria García Fernández for their support.
Abstract
Models and transformations between models are provided as the core of Model-Driven Engineering, offering reusability of knowledge and processes. In order to establish the basis of future advances in this emerging paradigm, this paper is focused on the principles of meta-models and transformation models. Moreover, the concept of meta-model is becoming an essential artifact for MDE based solutions, thus we have centered our background review in the state of art related with meta-model specifications and model transformation technologies. Our research is aimed at getting a higher degree of interoperability among available meta-model specifications by raising the transformation models to the upper meta-layers. Some conclusions extracted suggest that this is yet an early solution which demands greater efforts in terms of research, development and specification, with many interesting open subjects like design of generic editors for model-agnostic visual modeling, integration of models instances from different meta-models, improvements of the semantic knowledge offered by actual modeling languages or even the evaluation of the applicability of graph transformation techniques towards formal transformation models.
Full Paper
All papers accepted will be published in an special volume of IWANN in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS Springer Verlag). IWANN is included in the ranking of the best conferences established by the Computer Science Conference Ranking based on the "Estimated Impact of Conference (EIC)", concretely in position 55 among 620 considered (in the Artificial Intelligence field). Therefore the papers will be indexed by CiteSeer.IST, and by the organization Computing Research and Education Association (CORE).
A special issue in the International Journal of Artificial Intelligent Real-Time Automation (Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence), from Elsevier, will include a selection of between 10 to 15 papers published in DCAI 2009 (JCR 2007 - 0.762).
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