Call-For-Papers
Special Issue on
Software Modelling
In the
International Journal of Software and Informatics
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1. The theme
Software modelling is to represent software systems at a high level of abstraction in the form of models, which are often in graphic or formal notations and sometimes a combination of them. In a model, the implementation details are omitted or hidden in order to facilitate reasoning about the system being modelled, and to support human comprehension and communication between stakeholders. A large number of modelling languages and/or notations have been proposed in the past decades as a core part of software development methodologies, such as dataflow diagrams in the structured analysis and design, UML in object-oriented development, and Petri-net, finite state machine, and statechart, etc. in formal methods. With the rapid development of model-driven software development methodology, modelling plays an increasingly important role in software development. The past few years have seen a rapid growth in the research on software modelling.
Meta-modelling, which models software models, has emerged as one of the key techniques that formalise the definitions of modelling languages and the specification of various processes and transformations of models. It has also been an active research topic in the past a few years.
The theme of the journal special issue is software modelling. It aims at publishing papers that (a) reflect the current frontier in the research on the scientific and technology principles of software modelling and meta-modelling, and (b) report empirical studies and case studies of the current state of practice.
2. The topics
The following lists some typical topics covered by the special issue (but not limited to).
3.
Requirements of submissions
All submissions must meet the following requirements.
(a) The paper must be written in English.
(b) All submissions must be typeset in the journal¡¯s format. A format template can be downloaded from the journal¡¯s website at the following URL: http://www.ijsi.org
(c) The length of a submission should be in the range of 25 to 35 pages in the journal¡¯s format. If the length of a submission is outside this range (either longer or shorter), consent should be obtained from the guest editor.
(d) The submission must be the authors' own original work and it must have not been formally published or submitted for the consideration of publication anywhere else.
(e) If a submission is an extension of a workshop/conference paper, it must contain a substantial amount of new material. As a guideline, it should contain at least 30% of new material. In that case, the author must state the differences of the submission from existing publications in a cover letter, and include the workshop/conference paper(s) together with the submission for the editor to check if the extension and revision is satisfactory.
4. How to submit
All submissions must be in pdf format and uploaded to the special issue¡¯s online submission website.
The online submission website will now open. The URL is:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ijsism2011
5.
Review of the papers
All the submissions will be peer reviewed by at least two experienced active researchers in the related subject area. The review process and quality criteria will follow the journal¡¯s review process protocol and standard. The decisions on acceptance of the papers will be based on the reviewers' report on the submission.
6. Important dates
7. Contact details of the guest editor
Please send all enquiries on the special issue to the guest editor of the special issue at the following address:
Prof. Hong Zhu,
Department of Computing and Electronics
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford OX33 1HX, UK
Tel.: +44 (1865) 484580, fax: ++44 (1865) 484545
email: hzhu@brookes.ac.uk