The 2019 Transformation Tool Contest (TTC) seeks your own spins of a simple and well known transformation from the ATL Zoo, which models a common problem in circuit synthesis. The deadline for solution descriptions is 21st June 2019 (extended), immediately followed by a round of open peer reviewing. As in previous editions, solution descriptions will be published in a post-proceedings volume, and potentially lead to continued collaboration for producing a per-case journal article.
The aim of this event is to compare the expressiveness, the usability and the performance of graph, model and program transformation tools along a number of selected case studies. A deeper understanding of the relative merits of different tool features will help to further improve transformation tools and to indicate open problems.
This contest is the twelfth of its kind (after an AGTiVE 2007 session, as GraBaTs 2008 and 2009 contests, and the TTC 2010, 2011, 2013--2018 contests). For the sixth time, the contest is co-located with several leading software engineering conferences as part of the Software Technologies: Applications and Foundations (STAF) federation. Teams from the major international research groups in the development and use of transformation tools are expected to participate in the TTC again.
The following case study has been selected:
The case description, supporting resources, and discussion between solution developers are hosted at the source code repositories linked to above.
If you would like to participate in the contest, you are now asked to take your favourite transformation tool and submit your solutions. A submission should consist of a paper and the actual solution (i.e., programs, models, etc.). The paper should include a description of the chosen case study variant (if any) and a presentation of the chosen solution, including a discussion of design decisions. Examples can be explored at the TTC 2018 website.
Solutions should be submitted via Easychair by 21st June 2019 (extended: no more extensions will be given). Before the same deadline, each case study solution (tool, project files, documentation) should be made available for review and demonstration via a public version control repository (e.g. on Github or Bitbucket). Docker Hub images would be highly appreciated as well.
Immediately after the submission deadline, please note solution developers will be asked to participate in a round of open review of other solutions. Therefore, we ask that all solution developers are available in the period 22nd June to 5th July 2019 to participate in these discussions.
Please note that solutions that are ultimately published in the post-proceedings will not exceed 5 pages and will be formatted using the CEUR-WS style. There are no such page limit or formatting restrictions on the initial descriptions of a solution (i.e., the solutions submitted on the 21st of June).
Besides the presentations of the submitted solutions, the contest held on the 19th July 2019 in Eindhoven (Netherlands) will comprise a live contest: an additional transformation case that will not be announced until a few days before the contest. There will be dedicated hackspace during the week of STAF for solution developers wishing to work on the live contest.
For TTC 2019 there will be several publication opportunities: