Second International Workshop on Bidirectional Transformations (BX 2013)

Sunday March 17th, 2013
Rome, Italy
colocated with ETAPS 2013

Bidirectional transformations (bx) are a mechanism for maintaining the consistency of at least two related sources of information. Such sources can be databases, software models, documents, graphs, and trees. BX are an emerging topic in a wide range of research areas with prominent presence at top conferences in different fields. Following the success of BX'12, BX'13 is a dedicated venue for bx in all relevant areas. The methodologies used for bx range from classical program transformation to graph transformation techniques, from ad-hoc techniques for data synchronization to the development of domain-specific languages and their integration. We also solicit papers on model/metamodel co-evolution, which is a different yet closely related subject.

Aims and Topics

The aim of the workshop is to bring together researchers, established and new, interested in bidirectional transformations from different perspectives, such as: language-based approaches, software/model transformations, and data/schema co-evolution.

Topics of interest for BX'13 include, but are not limited to:

  • software-model synchronization
  • data-schema co-evolution and data synchronization
  • consistency analysis
  • (coupled) software/model transformations
  • language-based approaches
  • analysis/classification of requirements for bx technologies
  • case studies and tool support
  • efficiency of algorithms and benchmarks
  • comparison of bx technologies

Submissions can be:

  • research papers providing new concepts and results
  • position papers and research perspectives
  • papers that apply bx in new domains
  • papers closing gaps between formal concepts and application scenarios

Submitted papers must be 6-15 pages in length, otherwise they will be rejected without review. Preliminary proceedings, including all the papers selected for the workshop, will be available electronically at the workshop. Post-proceedings of the workshop will appear as a volume of EC-EASST. Workshop papers that were shorter than 11 pages will require extension and a second round of reviewing, if their authors wish them to appear in the post-proceedings. We specifically welcome short papers that may be extended to full papers, perhaps with extra authors, following discussion at the workshop.

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