Dagstuhl seminar on bidirectional transformations (BX)
Zhenjiang Hu, Andy Schürr, Perdita Stevens, James F. Terwilliger · ACM SIGMOD Record · 2011
2011, brought together researchers from 13 countries across disciplines that study bidirectional transformations. It was a follow-up of the GRACE International Meeting on Bidirectional Transformations held in December 2008 near Tokyo, Japan [5]. This consisted of short introductions from each of the participants on their background and work, followed by presentations and demonstrations on representative technologies from each field, and some open discussion time. A major benefit of the GRACE meeting was the opportunity for the disciplines to get some initial exposure to each other. The Dagstuhl seminar intended to go a step further and begin to identify commonalities between the disciplines and start to set a cross-disciplinary research agenda. The first part of the seminar consisted of tutorials from each of the four represented disciplines. The second part consisted of cross-disciplinary working groups dedicated to investigating specific examples of commonality between solutions or identifying requirements, terminology, or scenarios that may reach across fields. There were also sessions in which participants gave position statements on their own work. Participants at both the Dagstuhl and GRACE seminars came from four disciplines: (1) Programming