[Apologies for multiple copies of this announcement] LAST CALL FOR PAPERS ICGT 2004 2nd International Conference on Graph Transformation Roma (Italy), September 28 - October 2, 2004 The second International Conference on Graph Transformation ICGT 2004, along with several satellite events, will be held in Roma at the end of September 2004. It follows the first ICGT 2002 (Barcelona, October 2002) and a series of six international workshops on graph transformation with applications in computer science held from 1978 to 1998 in Europe and the USA. The conference takes place under the auspices of EATCS, EASST, and IFIP WG 1.3. The proceedings will appear in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series by Springer-Verlag. The conference is co-located with IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human Centric Computing (VL/HCC) September 26-29, 2004. Scope. Graphical structures of various kinds (like graphs, diagrams, visual sentences and others) are very useful to describe complex structures and systems in a direct and intuitive way. These structures are often augmented by formalisms which add to the static description a further dimension modelling the evolution of systems via any kind of transformation of such graphical structures. The field of Graph Transformation is concerned with the theory, applications and implementation issues of all these formalisms. The theory is strongly related to areas such as graph theory and graph algorithms, formal language and parsing theory, theory of concurrency and distributed systems, formal specification and verification, logic and semantics. The application areas include all those fields of Computer Science, Information Processing, Engineering and Natural Sciences where static and dynamic modeling by graphical structures and graph transformations, respectively, play an important role. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following. On the more theoretical side: - General models of graph transformation - Node-, edge-, and hyperedge replacement graph grammars - Concurrency, distribution, and formal semantics - Term graph rewriting - Network computing - High-level replacement systems - Hierarchical graphs and decompositions of graphs - Logic expression of graph transformation properties - Graph theoretical properties of graph languages - Geometrical and topological aspects of graph transformation - Automata on graphs and parsing of graph languages - Analysis of graph transformation systems - Structuring and modularization concepts - Semantics of UML and other visual modelling techniques On the more applied side: - Specification languages - Implementation of programming languages - Design of visual programming environments - Massively parallel computing - Bioinformatics - Software engineering and modular systems - Development of meta CASE tools - Software architecture - Information security - Visual languages - Bio-computing - Actor systems and Petri nets - Rule- and knowledge-based systems - Pattern generation and picture processing - Pattern matching - Tool support - Graph exchange formats - Layout algorithms Invited speakers. Andy Evans (York, UK) Margaret-Anne Storey (Victoria, BC Canada) (joint speaker with VL/HCC) Program committee. M.Bauderon (FR), D.Blostein (CA), A.Corradini (IT), H.Ehrig (DE), G.Engels (co-chair; DE), R.Heckel (DE), D.Janssens (BE), H.-J.Kreowski (DE), B.Koenig (DE), B.Meyer (AU), U.Montanari (IT), M.Nagl (DE), F.Orejas (ES), F.Parisi-Presicce (co-chair; USA/IT), M.Pezze` (IT), J.Pfaltz (USA), R.Plasmeijer (NL), D.Plump (UK), L.Ribeiro (BR), G.Rozenberg (NL), A.Schuerr (DE), G.Taentzer (DE), G.Tortora (IT), G.Valiente (ES) Important dates. Submission of title and abstract: April 19, 2004 Submission of complete paper: April 26, 2004 Notification of acceptance: June 15, 2004 Final version due: June 30, 2004 Main conference: September 29 -- October 1, 2004 Conference including satellite events: September 28 -- October 2, 2004 General organizing committee. Paolo Bottoni (Roma, Italy), Hartmut Ehrig (chair; Berlin, Germany), Gregor Engels (Paderborn, Germany), Francesco Parisi-Presicce (Roma, Italy), Grzegorz Rozenberg (Leiden, The Netherlands) Local organizing committee. Paolo Bottoni (chair), Francesco Parisi-Presicce, Marta Simeoni (publicity chair) More details concerning ICGT 2004 including the main conference, satellite events, the procedure for the submission of papers, local information on the conference site, and travel information can be found on the website of ICGT 2004, http://icgt2004.dsi.uniroma1.it For further information, you may also contact Paolo Bottoni (bottoni@dsi.uniroma1.it), Gregor Engels (engels@uni-paderborn.de) or Francesco Parisi-Presicce (parisi@dsi.uniroma1.it / fparisip@gmu.edu) Conference address. ICGT 2004 Francesco Parisi-Presicce / Paolo Bottoni Universit� degli Studi di Roma La Sapienza Dipartimento di Informatica Via Salaria 113 (III piano), I-00198 Roma, Italy Tel: +39 06 4991-8426, Fax: +39 06 8541842 Satellite events. GRA-TRA TUTORIAL Tutorial on Foundations and Applications of Graph Transformation Date: Sept. 28 (afternoon) Organizers, contact and further information: Luciano Baresi (Milano, Italy, baresi@elet.polimi.it), Reiko Heckel (Paderborn, Germany, reiko@upb.de) http://www.upb.de/cs/ag-engels/Conferences/ICGT04/Tutorial DNA & GRA-TRA 2004 Tutorial on DNA Computing and Graph Transformation Date: Sept. 28 (all day) Organizers: Tero Harju (Turku, Finland), Ion Petre (Turku, Findland), Grzegorz Rozenberg (Leiden, The Netherlands) Contact and further information: rozenber@liacs.nl PNGT 2004 Workshop on Petri Nets and Graph Transformations Date: Oct. 1 (afternoon) -2 (morning) Organizers: Grzegorz Rozenberg (Leiden, The Netherlands), Hartmut Ehrig (Berlin, Germany), Julia Padberg (Berlin, Germany) Contact and further information: padberg@cs.tu-berlin.de TERMGRAPH 2004 International Workshop on Term Graph Rewriting Date: Oct. 2 Organizers, contact and further information: Maribel Fernandez (London, UK, maribel@dcs.kcl.ac.uk), Andrea Corradini (Pisa, Italy, andrea@di.unipi.it) http://www.dcs.kcl.ac.uk/staff/maribel/TERMGRAPH.html GraBaTs 2004 International Workshop on Graph-Based Tools Date: Oct. 1 (afternoon) - Oct. 2 Organizers: Tom Mens (Mons, Belgium), Andy Schuerr (Darmstadt, Germany), Gabriele Taentzer (Berlin, Germany) Contact and further information: gabi@cs.tu-berlin.de http://tfs.cs.tu-berlin.de/grabats LOGIC, GRAPH TRANSFORMATIONS, FINITE AND INFINITE STRUCTURES Workshop with invited lectures and short contributions Date: Oct. 1 (afternoon) - Oct. 2 Organizers: Bruno Courcelle (Bordeaux, France), David Janin (Bordeaux, France) Contact and further information: courcell@labri.fr, http://www.labri.fr/Perso/~courcell/LogicIcgt.html SETra 2004 2nd Workshop on Software Evolution through Transformations: Model-based vs. Implementation-level Solutions Date: Oct. 2 Organizers: Reiko Heckel (Paderborn, Germany), Dirk Janssens (Antwerp, Belgium), Tom Mens (Brussels, Belgium), Michel Wermelinger (Lisboa, Portugal) Contact and further information: reiko@upb.de http://www.upb.de/cs/ag-engels/Conferences/ICGT04/SET04/