Call For Modeling Tool Presentations
Modeling tools play a critical role in the practice of enterprise modeling. The tools bring our modeling languages and techniques to life and provide the interface to modelers using our languages and techniques. As such, enterprise modeling research is historically interested in and engaged with the ideation and development of novel tools. Likewise, the tool vendors and the market are heavily interested in the newest scientific achievements and how to incorporate them into the tooling environments.
The aim of this track is thus to bridge the gap between modeling tool research and the practice of enterprise modeling tooling, experienced by practitioners and tool vendors. Within this track, we invite both parties to present innovative and/or recently developed modeling tools and tool development platforms. We hope that this track will foster knowledge exchange and initialize fruitful collaboration.
In the scientific realm, tools are often developed by Master’s or Ph.D. students who create artifacts to proof a hypothesis of their research or to show the feasibility of an innovative idea. In the industrial realm, tool vendors develop, maintain, and extend professional and mature tools, which are used by hundreds of thousands of customers. By bringing together the innovation coming from research with the experience from modeling practice on an industrial scale, the modeling tool track aims to foster networking and initiate collaborations.
Tool development concerns one or more of the following work areas:
- Implementation of new interfaces for modeling tools (e.g. tangible user interfaces, VR environments, web modeling tools, mobile interfaces)
- support of collaborative (inter-organizational) modeling
- development support for novel forms of modeling
- tool development with new technologies
- technical implementation of new modeling methods
- development of support for modeler-specific functionality
- support for tool use in university teaching for standards such as ArchiMate, BPMN, ER, and UML.
Submission Format
The modeling tool track at PoEM 2024 invites two forms of submissions which are offered to academic and industrial audiences, respectively. Papers of both categories should elaborate on the possibilities of the PoEM community to use the tool for practice, teaching, and research purposes.
All papers must employ the 1-column CEUR-WS formatting guidelines with paper lengths between 5 and 9 pages (including references and appendices).
Academic Paper Submissions
Academic paper submissions should contain a description of the tool and should have a length between five and nine pages (all-inclusive). Papers in this category should provide a short summary of the contribution that focuses on the innovative and novel aspects that advance the state of the art in existing tools.
The papers should further describe the development of the tool (e.g., technical architecture, development platforms used, etc.) and shall describe the core functionality offered by the tool. If applicable, evaluation results can also be included to show the maturity of the tool. The tool shall be made available to the reviewers/readers.
Each submission shall contain a link to a short video showcasing the tool in use. The academic tool papers can be submitted to a dedicated track of the PoEM EasyChair.
Tool Vendor Submissions
Tool vendor papers offer tool vendors a lightweight way to showcase their novel modeling tool developments to an academic community and to engage in interactive discussions. Tool vendors are invited to send an email to the track chairs with a brief description of their tool that focuses on the core functionality offered, the technology used, and the possibilities of using the tool in practice, teaching, and research.
The email shall be directed to: dominik.bork@tuwien.ac.at and john.krogstie@ntnu.no with the subject ’PoEM 2024 Tool Vendor Submission’.
| Submission deadline: | October 15th 2024 |
| Notification deadline: | October 22nd 2024 |
We will offer free registration for people (also authors) only attending the tools and demos sessions to be maximally inclusive.
The sessions are planned for Tuesday afternoon/evening (December 3).
Proceedings
Accepted academic papers will be published together with the workshop papers in a joint CEUR proceedings. Accepted tool vendors will be listed on the PoEM 2024 conference webpage and a link to the tool will be provided.
Presentation
The detailed concept for the tool presentation will be aligned with the PoEM organizers once the number of submissions is clear. However, we aim to provide a forum where both, academic as well as industrial tools are presented and discussed. Moreover, we aim to establish means to foster the initialization of collaboration between tool vendors on the one side and researchers on the other.