Objective

The NFPinDSML 2008 workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from communities dedicated to non-functional properties of software systems and researches from language engineering to study the principles of integration of various non-functional system properties and language engineering in order to further expand principles of reasoning about non-functional properties of software systems in Domain Specific Modeling Languages, and model-driven engineering in general

Relevance 

For the engineering of systems of a particular domain, Domain Specific Modeling Languages (DSML) − domain-oriented modeling languages developed for solving specific classes of problems related to such a domain − are becoming a common-place in software and system engineering. While DSML are mostly dedicated to functional requirements, often they do not address non-functional system properties (e.g. availability, reliability, security, performance, timeliness, efficiency…). Non-functional system properties are recognized as at least as important as functional properties and have to be addressed during the design of systems. Non-functional  properties of interest vary from domain to domain. Furthermore, there is different understanding of what are non-functional, and functional properties from domain to domain (e.g. timing and reliability properties are considered functional in the domain of embedded systems, and that is not the case in information systems). Finally, because of different relations, intrinsic-when one non-functional attribute affects another, or extrinsic-when a value of a non-functional property is behaving in opposing way to value of another, analysis of non-functional properties can be single and multi-dimensional.

As till now, the study of engineering DSMLs and analysis of non-functional properties of software systems lack common principles. For this reason the  workshop tries to gather a forum discussing issues of integration of non-functional system properties estimation and evaluation in the context of software system engineering with DSMLs. Because of the significant variety of languages and their application, the synergic use is a complex task that requires join efforts of different communities.

Scope 

The central question this workshop is the study of common principles of Domain Specific Language Engineering, and analysis of non-functional properties. The typical NFPinDSML 2008 paper studies Domain Specific Modeling Language concepts, non-functional system properties and annotation, computation and evaluation of non-functional properties of the final software product as a characteristic of a language. The topics of interest are, but are not restricted to:
 

• Model annotations and computation of non-functional properties in domain specific modeling languages

• Platform models, platform non-functional properties and domain specific modeling languages
  

• Non-functional properties and traceability in domain specific modeling languages

• Aspect-oriented modeling and non-functional properties in domain specific modeling languages
• Estimation and evaluation of non-functional properties in domain specific modeling languages with aspects
• Domain-specific aspects for estimation, evaluation and measurement
• Assessment of non-functional properties in domain specific modeling languages
• Estimation of non functional properties in domain specific modeling languages with simulation and mathematical formalisms
• Measurement and empirical evaluation of non-functional properties in domain specific languages
• Transformation and non-functional properties
•   Transformation as non-functional properties influencing design choice
•    Non-functional properties of transformations
• Ontologies for formalizing shared knowledge about non-functional system properties

• Legal policies of non-functional properties:
• Legal policies and non-functional system properties
• Integration of legal policies in domain specific languages
• Non-functional properties and domain specific languages of particular domains (Service Oriented Architectures, Event Based Architectures, Embedded Systems, Health-care Systems, GUI’s, Insurance, …)
  

Papers Submission

We solicit position papers (4 to 8 pages) and full technical papers (up to 15 pages) formatted by using the Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) style. Short papers will be expected to discuss controversial issues in the field or describe interesting or thought-provoking ideas that are not yet fully developed. Full papers will be expected to describe new research results and have a higher degree of technical rigor than short papers. All papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere. All papers should be submitted via the NFPinDSML 2008 EasyChair online submission system. All papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (published by CEUR online proceedings system). Improved versions of the best NFPinDSML 2008 papers, (subject to a second round of rigorous review) will be published in the Software and Systems Modeling journal.

Important Dates

• Deadline for paper submissions: July 31, 2008 Submission closed
  
• Notification of authors: August 29, 2008 September 3, 2008
• Camera ready papers: September 16, 2008 September 23, 2008
  

Workshop Supporters

• TrustSoft Research Training Group (TrustSoft Graduiertkolleg), Unversity of Oldenburg
• German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschunggemeinschaft-DFG)

 

Workshop Organizers:

• Marko Bošković, University of Oldenburg, Germany
• Dragan Gašević, Athabasca University, Canada
• Claus Pahl, Dublin City University, Ireland
• Bernhard Schätz, Technische Universität München, Germany

Program Committee:

Guglielmo De Angelis, Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie dell'Informazione "Alessandro Faedo" Pisa, Italy
Jean Bézivin, Université de Nantes, France
Jörg Dörr, IESE Franhofer, Germany
Martin Glinz, Universität Zürich, Switzerland
Giancarlo Guizzardi, Laboratorio di Ontologia Applicata, Italy
Anirüddhā Gokhālé, Vanderbilt University, USA
Wilhelm Hasselbring, Universität Oldenburg, Germany
Jan Jürjens, Open University Milton Keynes, Great Britain
Dorina Petriu, Charleton University, Canada
Ivan Porres, Åbo Akademi, Finland
Matthias Riebisch, Technische Universität Ilmenau, Germany
Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, MetaCase, Finland
Antonio Vallecillo, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Andreas Winter, Johannes Gutenberg Universität Mainz, Germany
Steffen Zschaler, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany