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                     Call for Papers
                       GraBaTs 2006 
      Third International Workshop on Graph Based Tools
            September 21-22, 2006, Natal, Brazil
            http://www.inf.mit.bme.hu/GRABATS2006
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Aims and scope
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GraBaTs 2006 is the third workshop of a series that serves as a forum for
researchers and practitioners interested in the development and application
of graph-based tools. Based upon mathematically solid underlying concepts,
graph-based tools are frequently used in various application areas in
software and systems engineering.

GraBaTs 2006 is seeking for papers reporting on tools that store, retrieve,
manipulate and display graphs. It is the purpose of this workshop to
summarize the state of the art of graph-based tool development, bring
together developers of graph-based tools in different application fields and
to encourage new tool development co-operations.

Topics relevant to the scope of the workshop include (but are not restricted
to) the following
* Tools for Model-driven systems development
* Meta CASE tools or generators
* Tools for Visual languages: UML, Domain-specific languages, etc.
* Model transformation tools
* Animation and simulation tools
* Analysis tools (incl. verification & validation, static analysis
  techniques, testing)
* Tool integration techniques
* Efficient algorithms (e.g. pattern matching, manipulation of large
  graph models)
* Case studies, empirical and experimental results on tool scalability
* Novel application areas

Research papers with well-founded results (up to 12 pages) and position
papers presenting novel ideas (up to 8 pages) are both welcome in these
topics. A printed preliminary proceedings will be available for the
workshop. Final versions of accepted papers will be published in a new
electronic journal "Electronic Communications of EASST".

Furthermore, this year's workshop will have a special focus on tool
presentations organized as a separate session on the first day of the
workshop. Thus authors are also encouraged to submit tool papers (up to 12
pages, also to be included in the proceedings) which report on new features 
of existing tools or completely novel tools having graph-based foundations. 
The presentations of tools papers should contain a mandatory live demonstration 
part during the workshop.

Submissions should be sent to grabats [AT] finwe.inf.mit.bme.hu

Important dates:
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Paper submission: 		June 19th, 2006
Notification of acceptance: 	July 24th, 2006
Camera-ready version:  		August 21st, 2006

Program Committee:
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Luciano Baresi		(Politecnico di Milano, IT) 
David Deharbe		(Federal Univ. of Rio Grande, Natal, BR)
Holger Giese		(Univ. of Paderborn, DE)
Gabor Karsai		(Vanderbilt University, USA)
Mark Minas	     	(Univ. Bundeswehr Munich, DE)
Arend Rensink		(Univ. Twente, NL)
Andy Schuerr		(TU Darmstadt, DE)
Gabi Taentzer	    	(TU Berlin, DE)
Hans Vangheluwe 	(Mc Gill University, CA) 
Pieter Van Gorp	    	(Univ. Antwerpen, BE)
Daniel Varro		(TU Budapest, HU)
Andreas Winter		(Univ. of Koblenz-Landau, DE)
Albert Zuendorf		(Univ. Kassel, DE)

Organizers:
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Albert Zuendorf 	(Univ. Kassel, DE)
Daniel Varro 		(TU Budapest, HU)

Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers if you have any questions:
grabats [AT] finwe.inf.mit.bme.hu

Location:
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GraBaTs 2006 will be held in Natal, Brazil in September 21-22, 2006. 
It is a satellite workshop of ICGT 2006, Third International Conference 
on Graph Transformation. For venue, registration and suggested 
accommodation see the ICGT 2006 web page: 
http://www.dimap.ufrn.br/icgt2006/

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