[Om-announce] Science of Computer Programming: Special Issue on Application-Oriented Aspects of Graph Transformation

[Timo Kehrer]

SCIENCE OF COMPUTER PROGRAMMING Special Issue on
APPLICATION-ORIENTED ASPECTS OF GRAPH TRANSFORMATION


Important Dates:
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* Deadline for Submissions: December 20, 2020:
* First Review Notification: March 31, 2021


Scope and Topics:
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The use of graphs and graph-like structures as a formalism for 
specification and modelling is widespread in all areas of computer 
science as well as in many fields of computational research and 
engineering. Relevant examples include software architectures, pointer 
structures, state space graphs, control/data flow graphs, UML and other 
domain-specific models, network layouts, topologies of cyber-physical 
environments, and molecular structures. Often, these graphs undergo 
dynamic change, ranging from reconfiguration and evolution to various 
kinds of behaviour, all of which may be captured by rule-based graph 
manipulation. Thus, graphs and graph transformation form a fundamental 
universal modelling paradigm that serves as a means for formal reasoning 
and analysis, ranging from the verification of certain properties of 
interest to the discovery of fundamentally new insights.

This special issue focuses on application-oriented aspects of graphs and 
graph transformation. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
* Analysis and verification of graph transformation systems
* Automata on graphs and parsing of graph languages
* Structuring and modularization of graph transformation
* Hierarchical graphs and decomposition of graphs
* Parallel, concurrent, and distributed graph transformation
* Term graph and string diagram rewriting
* Petri nets and other models of concurrency
* Business process models and notations
* Graph databases and graph queries
* Model-driven development and model transformation
* Model checking, program analysis and verification, simulation and 
animation
* Syntax, semantics and implementation of programming languages, 
including domain-specific and visual languages
* Graph transformation languages and tool support
* Efficient algorithms (e.g. pattern matching, graph traversal, network 
analysis)
* Applications and case studies in software engineering (e.g. software 
architectures, refactoring, access control, and service-orientation)
* Applications to computing paradigms (e.g. bio-inspired, quantum, 
ubiquitous, and visual)


Guest Editors:
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* Timo Kehrer, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany), 
timo.kehrer at informatik.hu-berlin.de
* Fabio Gadducci, University of Pisa (Italy), fabio.gadducci at unipi.it


Paper Submission:
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Manuscripts should be submitted through the Editorial Manager: 
https://ees.elsevier.com/scico/default.asp
When submitting the manuscript for this special issue, please select 
"SI: ICGT 2020" as the article type.
Formatting of the manuscripts should adhere to Elsevier's article class: 
https://ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/elsarticle


Further information on the special issue is available online at
http://icgt2020.di.unipi.it/special-issue/