4th International Workshop on Domain-Specific Languages and models for ROBotic systems DSLRob-13


Website: http://www.doesnotunderstand.org/public/DSLRob2013
November 8th 2013 at Tokyo (Japan), after the IROS 2013 conference.


The Fourth International Workshop on Domain-Specific Languages and
Models for Robotic Systems (DSLRob'13) will be held November 8th 2013
at Tokyo (Japan), just after the IROS 2013 conference.

Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) and Model-driven Software Development
(MDSD) are emerging areas of interest in the robotics research
community. Both have been instrumental for resolving complex issues in
a wide range of domains, including e.g. distributed and modular
robotics, control, and vision. The goal of this workshop is to bring
together robotics researchers working with DSLs and models in
different aspects of robotics.

# Description

A domain-specific language (DSL) is a programming language dedicated
to a particular problem domain that offers specific notations and
abstractions that increase programmer productivity within that domain.
Models offer a high-level way for domain users to specify the
functionality of their system at the right level of abstraction. DSLs
and models have historically been used for programming complex
systems. However recently they have garnered interest as a separate
field of study. Robotic systems blend hardware and software in a
holistic way that intrinsically raises many crosscutting concerns
(concurrency, uncertainty, time constraints, ...), for which reason,
traditional general-purpose languages often lead to a poor fit between
the language features and the implementation requirements. DSLs and
models offer a powerful, systematic way to overcome this problem,
enabling the programmer to quickly and precisely implement novel
software solutions to complex problems within the robotics domain.

The main objective of this workshop is a cross-pollination of ideas
between robotics researchers in DSLs and models from different
domains. DSLs and models are key elements in many robotic systems
presented at leading conferences such as IROS and ICRA, but the
domain-centric structure of the typical robotics conference does not
offer a natural venue for exchange of ideas regarding DSLs and models.

This workshop will focus on the use of Domain-Specific Languages and
Models for Robotic Systems. Topics that are of special interest
include:

- domain-specific languages to express reactive behaviors, composition
of behaviors, motion description languages (MDL),
- domain-specific languages to express uncertainty, modelling of
physical system, real-time constraints,
- domain-specific languages to describe cooperative robotics and
modular robotics systems,
- tools support and frameworks for describing and manipulating DSLs,
models and meta-models for robotic systems,
- code generation and code transformation for robotics systems,
variability in robotic systems,
- meta-models to express robotic specific structures and best practices,
- frameworks to combine DSLs in an uniform manner,
- benchmarks to compare use of DSL vs general-purpose programming, and
programming languages in the context of robotic systems, visual
languages for robots, languages to teach robotics.

The intended audience is those robotics researchers throughout the
entire robotics community who use DSLs and models as a key component
of their robotics software infrastructure. In addition, robotics
researchers with an interest in modern approaches to solving complex
software-related issues will find the workshop inspirational.

# Relation to previous workshops organized

This is the fourth installment of this workshop: the first edition
DSLRob 2010 was held at IROS 2010, the second edition DSLRob 2011
collocated with IROS 2011 and third edition DSLRob 2012 was organized
during SIMPAR 2012.

The proceedings of the previous editions are freely available on arXiv:
- DSLRob 2010 proceedings: http://arxiv.org/abs/1102.4563
- DSLRob 2011 proceedings: http://arxiv.org/abs/1212.3308
- DSLRob 2012 proceedings: http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.5082

# Submissions guidelines

All submitted papers will be reviewed on the basis of technical
quality, relevance, significance, and clarity. At least two reviews
for each paper will be conducted. All workshop papers should be
submitted electronically in PDF format through the EasyChair website
and should use the IEEE US letter format.

We are looking for submission of full research papers and experiences
reports (up to 8 pages) and work in progress submissions (up to 4
pages). Please create your account on Easy Chair website as soon as
possible if you intend to submit a paper:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dslrob2013

# Journal Special Issue

After the workshop, authors of the last previous DSLROB editions since
2010 will be asked to submit an extended version of their papers to
the following journal special issue: Special issue of Journal of
Software Engineering for Robotics http://www.joser.org/

# Important dates

- Sept 1, 2013 Due date for workshop papers submission
- Sept 20, 2013 Final acceptance
- Nov 8, 2013 Workshop date

# Organization committee

- Christian Schlegel, Fakult?t Informatik, Hochschule Ulm, Germany
- Ulrik P. Schultz, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark
- Serge Stinckwich, UMI UMMISCO (IRD/UPMC), France

# Program committee

- Alexandre Bergel, University of Chile, Chile
- Geoffrey Biggs, AIST, Japan
- Mirko Bordignon, Digipack Industrial Automation, Sanovo Technology Group
- Herman Bruyninckx, University of Leuven, Belgium
- Saadia Dhouib, CEA LIST, France
- Hugo A. Garcia, University of Leuven, Belgium
- Issa Nesnas, JPL Robotics, USA
- Cyril Novales, PRISME, France
- Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA
- Henrik Nilsson, University of Nottingham, UK
- Patrick Martin, York College of Pennsylvania, USA
- Walid Taha, Halmstad University, Sweden
- Cristina Vicente-Chicote, University of Cartagena, Spain
- Mikal Ziane, LIP6, France

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Serge Stinckwich
UMI UMMISCO 209 (IRD/UPMC)
Every DSL ends up being Smalltalk
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