STAF 2023
Tue 18 - Fri 21 July 2023 Leicester, United Kingdom

Transformations of structured data such as relational data, abstract syntax trees and high-level graph-based models are cross-disciplinary at the heart of a wide range of applications. The success of transformation approaches heavily depends on the availability of expressive and efficient tools. Currently, a large variety of tools exist for different transformation approaches. However, for potential users, working in application domains where transformation techniques may be useful, it is difficult to select the right tool for their purpose. Moreover, even for most of the tool experts it is true that they know about one or two tools but little about others. Finally, the tool developers themselves can also be inspired by a more detailed understanding of related approaches.

The aim of this event is to evaluate and compare the expressiveness, the usability and the performance of transformation tools for structured data along a number of selected challenging case studies. That is, we want to learn about the pros and cons of each tool considering different applications. A deeper understanding of the relative merits of different tool features will help to further improve the existing tools, to indicate open problems, and to integrate and standardize transformation tools.

There is a wide range of application domains of transformation tools, including software engineering, business intelligence, logistics, healthcare and bioinformatics, as well as semantic web and social network analysis. Specific areas of transformations relevant for the TTC include (among others):

  • model synchronisation and merging,
  • program manipulation and translation,
  • interoperability and migration,
  • model execution and simulation,
  • verification of models and transformations,
  • knowledge extraction and semantic search

If you are working in one of these areas or a different domain where structured data transformations are relevant, please consider submitting a case.

Cases and solutions, including those of previous years, are/will be published at the Transformation Tool Contest website.

If you have questions, contact us by email at: ttc23@easychair.org

Plenary
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09:00 - 10:30
TTC Session 1: Opening & Containers to MiniYAMLTTC at Chestnut
Chair(s): Artur Boronat University of Leicester

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09:00
10m
Day opening
TTC Welcome
TTC

09:10
15m
Talk
Case introduction - Program abstraction by transformation: Abstraction of Visual Basic to UML
TTC
P: Dr Kevin Lano King's College London, Shekoufeh Rahimi University of Roehampton
Pre-print
09:25
15m
Talk
Case introduction - Asymmetric and Directed Bidirectional Transformation for Container Orchestrations
TTC
P: Antonio Garcia-Dominguez University of York
Pre-print
09:40
15m
Talk
Case solution - BXtenDSL
TTC
P: Thomas Buchmann Technische Hochschule Deggendorf
Pre-print Media Attached
09:55
15m
Talk
Case solution - NMF
TTC
Pre-print Media Attached
10:10
20m
Talk
Case solution - YAMTL and EMF-Syncer
TTC
P: Artur Boronat University of Leicester
Pre-print Media Attached
10:30 - 11:00
Morning CoffeeSocial at The Bar
10:30
30m
Coffee break
Coffee Break
Social

12:30 - 13:30
12:30
60m
Lunch
Lunch
Social

13:30 - 15:00
TTC Session 3: Incremental Class to RelationalTTC at Chestnut
Chair(s): Antonio Garcia-Dominguez University of York

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13:30
15m
Talk
Case introduction - Incremental MTL vs. GPLs: Class into Relational Database Schema
TTC
P: Sandra Greiner University of Bern, Switzerland, Stefan Höppner Ulm University, Frédéric Jouault ERIS Team, ESEO , France, Théo Le Calvar IMT Atlantique, LS2N (UMR CNRS 6004), Mickael Clavreul
Pre-print
13:45
15m
Talk
Case solution - BXtenDSL
TTC
P: Thomas Buchmann Technische Hochschule Deggendorf
Pre-print Media Attached
14:00
15m
Talk
Case solution - NMF
TTC
Pre-print Media Attached
14:15
15m
Talk
Case solution - Cheptre
TTC
P: Frédéric Jouault ERIS Team, ESEO , France, Nicolas Pouillard
Pre-print Media Attached
14:30
30m
Meeting
Deliberation - Incremental MTLs vs. GPLs
TTC

15:00 - 15:30
Afternoon CoffeeSocial at The Bar
15:00
30m
Coffee break
Coffee Break
Social

15:30 - 17:00
TTC Session 4: Deliberation, Awards, & ClosingTTC at Chestnut
Chair(s): Antonio Garcia-Dominguez University of York

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15:30
30m
Meeting
Final round of deliberation and award preparation
TTC

16:00
30m
Awards
Awards
TTC

16:30
30m
Live Q&A
Reflection and open discussion
TTC

Call for Cases/Solutions

  • Call for cases is available here
  • Call for solutions is available here - to be updated on the 28th of April