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                                Call for Position Paper 
                 SIVOES-Behavior
  Workshop on the place of behavior for designing applications.
           Sunday, October 10th, 2004, Lisbon, Portugal
            http://www.sivoes.org/Sivoes2004_Behavior
                        hold in conjunction with the 
             UML’2004 international conference
          October 11-15, 2004, Lisbon, Portugal
                 http://www.umlconference.org/
       

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ORGANIZERS 

Sébastien GERARD, CEA-List/LLSP, Fr
Pierre-Alain MULLER, Univ of Hte Alsace., ESSAIM, Fr
Colin ATKINSON, Univ. of Mannheim, D
Bran SELIC, IBM Rational Software Canada
Outlines
The latest OMG initiative (already three years old), called MDA – for "Model Driven Architecture" – puts forward the idea that future process development will be centered around the models, thus keeping independent development from underlying platform technology. The first significant result of the MDA paradigm for engineers is the possibility to build application models that can be conveniently ported to new, emerging technologies - implementation languages, middleware, etc.- with minimal effort and risk.
In the real-time area, this model-oriented trend is also very active and promising. But real-time systems are different from general-purpose systems at last because of their behavior aspects. Indeed, it is one of the main issues in their development.
This workshop aims to bring together members of the various communities concerned by the behavior across a wide range of domains. The workshop will provide them with a central forum where to debate the place of behavior in specification, design, implementation, verification and maintenance of software and systems in the context of the distributed, real-time and embedded areas.
This workshop seeks contributions from researchers and practitioners interested on all behavior aspects of system development. We are especially interested in papers outlining how behavior is addressed in the different communities and how these communities see the balance between structure and behavior in software and systems.
To achieve this purpose, SIVOES-Behavior solicits then abstract papers (about 4 pages) related to, but not limited to, the following principal topics:
* Models and meta-models.
* Simulation.
* Verification and validation.
* Code generation.
* Real-time and reactive systems.
* Hybrid systems
* …
SELECTION PROCESS
To participate to this workshop, send a position paper via email to Sébastien Gérard (Sebastien.Gerard@cea.fr). Submissions should not exceed 4 pages (10 pt., single space) and should be in one of the following formats: plain text, postscript, pdf or word.
Submissions will be evaluated based on their relevance to the workshop theme, originality, and on ability to reveal issues that may animate discussions during the workshop. The accepted papers will be placed on the workshop web site before the date of the workshop.

IMPORTANT DATES 

Submission deadline: August 23th, 2004
Notification of acceptance: September 3rd, 2004
Workshop date : Sunday, October 10th, 2004