GraBaTs 2010
        4th International Workshop on Graph Based Tools
                     September 28th  2010, 
           University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands


Aims and Scope
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The International Workshop on Graph Based Tools aims at continuing the GRABATS
series of workshops that serve as a forum for researchers and practitioners 
interested in the development and application of graph-based tools. Based upon 
mathematically solid underlying concepts, graphs are at the core of tools and 
techniques in various application areas, and dealing with practical concerns, 
like:
    * Tools for model-driven development,
    * Meta CASE tools or generators,
    * Tools for Visual languages: UML, Domain-specific languages, etc.
    * Model transformation and model management tools,
    * Visualization, animation and simulation tools,
    * Analysis of models, transformations and programs 
      (incl. verification & validation, static analysis, testing),
    * Data Analysis and Pattern Recognition Techniques,
    * Tool integration techniques,
    * Software Engineering Tools,
    * Software Evolution,
    * Efficient algorithms (pattern matching, handling of large graph models).

In all these areas tools are developed that store, retrieve, transform 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 cooperations. We solicit papers on the aforementioned topics, 
as well as case studies, empirical and experimental results on tool 
scalability and uses of graph-based tools on novel application areas.

This year's workshop will have a special emphasis on applications of 
graph-based tools to Model-Driven Engineering. Different tools, built 
around industry-driven frameworks (like Eclipse), are based on the 
notion of graph to perform different activities, most notably different 
model transformations, like animations, simulations, refactorings and 
model-to-model transformations.

History
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This workshop is the 4th in the series of GraBaTs workshops, which 
traditional have been co-located with ICGT:

    * GraBaTs 2002 at ICGT'02 in Barcelona (Spain).
    * GraBaTs 2004 at ICGT'04 in Rome (Italy).
    * GraBaTs 2006 at ICGT'06 in Natal (Brasil). 

Then, the workshop took the shape of a tool contest in the editions of 
ICGT'08 (Leicester), and ICMT'09(Zurich). In 2010, GraBaTs retained 
the workshop format, while the tool contest is now organized separately, 
as a Transformation Tool Contest 2010 together with TOOLS'10.

Important Dates
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June 14, 2010 	  	Abstract Submission
June 18, 2010 	  	Paper Submission
July 19, 2010 	  	Notification of Acceptance
July 26, 2010 	  	Camera ready version
September 28, 2010 	Workshop

Programme Committee
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    * Artur Boronat, University of Leicester (UK)
    * Claudia Ermel, Technical University of Berlin (Germany)
    * Esther Guerra, University Carlos III (Spain)
    * Ethan Jackson, Microsoft Research (USA)
    * Frederic Jouault, University of Nantes (France)
    * Dimitris Kolovos, University of York (UK)
    * Barbara König, Universität Duisburg-Essen (Germany)
    * Tihamer Levendovszky, Vanderbilt University (USA)
    * Mark Minas, Universitat der Bundeswehr Munchen (Germany)
    * Gabriele Taentzer, Philipps-Universität Marburg (Germany)
    * Pieter Van Gorp, Eindhoven University of Technology (the Netherlands)
    * Hans Vangheluwe, Universiteit Antwerpen (Belgium)
    * Gergely Varró TU Budapest (Hungary) & TU Darmstadt (Germany)     
    * Andreas Winter, Universität Koblenz-Landau (Germany)
    * Albert Zündorf, University of Kassel (Germany) 

Submissions
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The proceedings of this workshop will be published in the journal Electronic 
Communications of the EASST. Two kinds of papers are solicited: technical 
presentations and tool demos. The former should not exceed 12 pages, while 
the latter should include a description of the tool features and the expected 
demonstration.

Please submit your abstract and paper using 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=grabats2010.

Location
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GraBaTs 2010 will be held at the University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands 
on September 28th, 2010. It is a satellite workshop of ICGT 2010, the 
International Conference on Graph Transformation, which is also co-located with 
SPIN 2010. For venue, registration and suggested accommodation see the 
ICGT/SPIN2010 web page: http://www.utwente.nl/icgt-spin/

Contact Info
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Please do not hesitate to contact the organizers if you have any questions:

Juan de Lara (Juan.deLara [at] uam.es). Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
Daniel Varró (varro [at] mit.bme.hu). Budapest Univ. of Techn. and Econ. (Hungary)