AGTIVE 2003 Call for Participation

                 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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                  AGTIVE 2003 Workshop
  Applied Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance

                September 27 - October 1
                       Omni Hotel
                Charlottesville, VA, USA

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Please register at   www.cs.virginia.edu/agtive2003
Early registration before September 5th.

This workshop continues the tradition of AGTIVE '99 held in
Kerkrade, The Netherlands of exploring the properties of
graph transformations and then applying them to real-life
applications.

The proceedings will be published by Springer Verlag in the
Lecture Notes of CS series.

Invited Speakers:
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  Hawley Rising, SONY Corp.
  "MPEG-7 Semandic Descriptions:  Graph Transformations, Graph 
  Grammars, and the Description of Multimedia"

  Gabor Karsai, Vanderbilt Univ. 
  "Graph Transformations in OMG's Model-Driven Architecture"

Tutorial:
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  Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano
  Reiko Heckel, Univ. of Paderborn
  "Foundations and Applications of Graph Transformation"

Session Topics:
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  Web Applications
  Data Structures and Data Bases
  Engineering Applications
  Agent-Oriented and Functional Programs, Distribution
  Object and Aspect-oriented Systems
  Natural Languages Processing and Structuring
  Reengineering
  Reuse and Integration
  Modelling Languages
  Bioinformatics
  Management of Development Processes
  Picture and Visual Languages

System Demonstrations:
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  12 working systems exhibiting graph and graph transformation
  capabilities will be demonstrated.

Social Function:
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  Visit and tour Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, then go
  on to Ash Lawn, home of James Monroe, for tour and dinner.
  Cost: included in registration fee, $50 for extra guests

Registration:
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  $300 ($350 after September 12) includes Proceedings and the
  social function ($50 for extra guests).
  Registration at the door, $150 per day.

  RESERVATIONS AT THE OMNI HOTEL MUST BE MADE INDEPENDENTLY.
  Use web page:   http://www.omnihotels.com 
  or telephone:   1-800-THE-OMNI
                  (434) 971-5500
  Mention AGTIVE 2003 to get reduced rate $119/day plus tax
  BEFORE September 5.    Reserve your room early!
  This is a football weekend in Charlottesville.

Detailed Program:
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  Saturday, September 27,
  18.00 -- 21.00        WELCOMING PARTY
  
  Sunday, September 28
  9.30  OPENING
        John L. Pfaltz,
        Maurice Cox, Mayor of Charlottesville
  
  10.00 -- 12.30  GRAPH TRANSFORMATION TUTORIAL
                  GRAPH TRANSFORMATION TOOLS DEMO
  
  14.00 -- 15.00 WEB APPLICATIONS
  
  Mario Michele Gala, Elisa Quintarelli, Letizia Tanca,
  Politecnico de Milano, Italy
  Graph Transformation for Merging User Navigation Histories
  
  Anilda Qemali, Gabriele Taentzer,
  Technical University of Berlin, Germany
  Towards Validation of Session Management in Web
  Applications based on Graph Transformation
  
  15.15 -- 16.15 DATA STRUCTURES AND DATA BASES
  
  Adam Bakewell, Detlef Plump, Colin Runciman,
  University of York, UK
  Specifying Pointer Structures by Graph Reduction
  
  Boris Böhlen,
  RWTH Aachen, Germany
  Specific Graph Models and Their Mapping to a Common Model
  
  Evening:    GRAPH TRANSFORMATION TOOLS DEMONSTRATION
  
  Monday, September 29
  
  8.30 -- 9.15  INVITED TALK   
  Hawley Rising, Sony US Research Lab, San Jose, USA
  MPEG-7 Semantic Descriptions: Graph Transformations, 
  Graph Grammars, and the Description of Multimedia.
  
  9.15 -- 11.00 ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS
  
  Leif Geiger, Albert Zündorf,
  University of Kassel, Germany
  Transforming Graph Based Scenarios into
  Graph Transformation Based Junit Tests
  
  Janusz Szuba, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland;
  Agnieszka Ozimek, Cracow Technical University, Poland;
  Andy Schürr, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany
  On Graphs in Conceptual Engineering Design
  
  Bodo Kraft, Manfred Nagl,
  RWTH Aachen, Germany
  Parameterizable Specification of Conceptual
  Design Tools in Civil Engineering
  
  11.15 -- 12.30 AGENT-ORIENTED AND FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMS,
                DISTRIBUTION
  
  Ralph Depke, Jan Hendrik Hausmann, Reiko Heckel,
  University of Paderborn, Germany
  A Graph-Based Semantics for Elements of an Agent-Oriented
  Modeling Language
  
  Fernando Luis Dotti, Osmar Marchi dos Santos,
  Universidade Católica do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil;
  Leila Ribeiro,
  Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil;
  Specification and Analysis of Fault Behaviours
  using Graph Grammars
  
  Arjen van Weelden, Rinus Plasmeijer,
  University of Nijmegen, The Netherlands
  Type Safe Interactive Composition of Compiled Graphs
  
  14.00 -- 15.00  OBJECT AND ASPECT-ORIENTED SYSTEMS
  
  Uwe Aßmann, Johan Lövdahl;
  Linköpings Universitet, Sweden
  Integrating Graph Rewrite Tooling with the Standard
  Software Process
  
  Alon Amsel, Dirk Janssens,
  University of Antwerp, Belgium
  Expressing Component-Relating Aspects with Graph
  Transformations
  
  15.15 -- 16.00  NATURAL LANGUAGES: PROCESSING AND STRUCTURING
  Ingrid Fischer,
  Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany
  German Syntax with Hypergraph Grammars
  
  Felix H. Gatzemeier,
  RWTH Aachen, Germany
  Authoring support based on user-serviceable graph
  rewriting
  
  Evening:    GRAPH TRANSFORMATION TOOLS DEMONSTRATION
  
  Tuesday, September 30
  
  8.30 -- 9.15   INVITED TALK   
  Gabor Karsai,
  Institute for Software-Integrated Services,
  Vanderbilt University, Nashville, USA
  Graph Transformations in OMG's Model-Driven Architecture
  
  9.15 -- 10.15   REENGINEERING
  
  Tobias Rötschke,
  TU Darmstadt, Germany
  Reengineering a Medical Imaging System Using Graph Grammars
  
  André Marburger, Bernhard Westfechtel,
  RWTH Aachen, Germany
  Behavioral Analysis of Telecommunication Systems by
  Graph Transformations
  
  10.30 -- 11.15   REUSE AND INTEGRATION
  
  Paolo Bottoni, Franceso Parisi-Presicce,
  University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy;
  Gabriele Taentzer,
  Technical University of Berlin, Germany
  Specifying Integrated Refactoring with Distributed Graph Transformations
  
  Thomas Haase, Oliver Meyer, Boris Böhlen, Felix Gatzemeier,
  RWTH Aachen, Germany
  A Special Purpose Architecture Tool:
  Rapid Prototyping with Graph Grammars
  
  11.30 -- 12.45   MODELLING LANGUAGES
  
  Andrew Fish, John Howse,
  University of Brighton, UK
  Computing Reading Trees for Constraint Diagrams
  
  Björn Cordes, Karsten Hölscher, Hans-Jörg Kreowski,
  University of Bremen, Germany
  UML Interaction Diagrams: Correct Translation of Sequence
  Diagrams into Collaboration Diagrams
  
  Juan de Lara, Esther Guerra,
  Universidad Autónoma de Madrid ;
  Hans Vangheluwe, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
  Meta-Modelling, Graph Gransformation and Model
  Checking for the Analysis of Hybrid Systems
  
  14.30 -- 21.00  SOCIAL EVENT
  
  We tour Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, the 3rd
  president of  the United States. Jefferson was deeply involved with
  the technology of the day and would clearly have developed many
  computer applications had he lived today.
  We then bus to Ash Lawn, home of James Monroe, our 5th president.
  This is a beautifully landscaped, but smaller, less pretentious home.
  Here we will have a traditional southern outdoor barbeque dinner.
  
  Wednesday, October 1
  
  8.30 -- 9.45   BIOINFORMATICS
  
  Geir Agnarsson, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA; Ágúst
  S. Egilsson, University of California, Berkeley, USA; Magnús
  M. Halldórsson, University of Iceland
  Proper down-coloring simple acyclic digraphs
  
  Colin Smith, Przemyslaw Prusinkiewicz, Faramarz Samavati,
  University of Calgary, Canada
  Local Specification of Surface Subdivision Algorithms
  
  Peter H. Sellers,
  The Rockefeller University, New York,
  Biochemical Reaction Networks: Theory and Algorithms
  
  Robert E. Jamison,
  Clemson University, Clemson, SC
  Transforming Toric Digraphs
  
  10.15 -- 11.15 MANAGEMENT OF DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES
  
  Markus Heller, Dirk Jäger,
  RWTH Aachen, Germany
  Graph-Based Tools for Distributed Cooperation in Dynamic
  Development Processes
  
  Markus Heller, Bernhard Westfechtel,
  RWTH Aachen, Germany;
  Ansgar Schleicher, DSA, Aachen, Germany;
  Graph-Based Specification of a Management System for
  Evolving Development Processes
  
  11.30 - 12.30   PICTURE AND VISUAL LANGUAGES
  
  Renate Klempien-Hinrichs, Thomas Meyer, Carolina von Totth,
  University of Bremen, Germany
  Collage Grammars for Collision-free Growing of Objects in 3D Scenes
  
  Mark Minas,
  University of the Federal Armed Forces, Munich, Germany
  Bootstrapping a DiaGen Specification Tool with DiaGen
  
  13.30 -- 15.30   PANEL DISCUSSION
  
  Key Problems in Applying Graph Transformation
  Technology in Industry
  Panelists to be announced
  
  15.30 -- 16.00   BEST PRESENTATION AWARDS
  Bernhard Westfechtel
         Best Paper Award
         Best Demo Award
  
  16.00  CONCLUDING REMARKS 
         Manfred Nagl
  
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