Software and Systems Modeling

See also the Springer site for this journal containing an index of published articles as well as free sample articles. Additionally, SoSyM is indexed by SCI (Science Citation Index).

Latest News:

Marsha Chechik, Richard Paige, and Antonio Vallecillo joined the Editorial Board of SoSyM (October 2009)
Status Report (September 2009):
- online access (Springer) (Jan - Dec 2008):
  Page visits: 53,474
  Full-Text Article Requests: 22,002
- average duration from submission to decision: 116 days
- acceptance rate (regular papers): 20.4%
- published papers: 149
- number of authors of published papers: 414
Seventh year of publication finished! (April 2009)
SoSyM is included in the Science Citation Index Expanded, starting with volume 6/1, 2007.
It will receive an Impact Factor for 2009, which will be published in July 2010.

Other Information:

Aims And Scope

Software and System Modeling (SoSyM) is an English language quarterly international journal that focuses on theoretical and practical issues pertaining to the development and application of software and system modeling languages and techniques. The aim of the journal is to publish high-quality works that further understanding of the theoretical underpinnings of modeling languages and techniques, present rigorous analyses of modeling experiences, and present scalable modeling techniques and processes that facilitate rigorous and economical development of software.

The journal is unique in its emphasis on theoretical foundations of modeling languages and techniques and on rigorous analyses of "real-world" modeling experiences. The balance of theoretical works and works based on in-depth analyses of experiences provides researchers with insights that can lead to better modeling languages and techniques, and provides modeling practitioners with a deeper understanding of modeling languages and techniques that can lead to more effective application.

The journal targets researchers, practitioners and students that have a vested interest in results generated by high-quality modeling research and by rigorously analyzing modeling experiences.

We invite authors to submit papers that discuss and analyze concerns and experiences pertaining to software and system modeling languages, techniques, tools, practices and other facets. The following are some of the topic areas that are of special interest:

Methodological issues
Model-based testing techniques
Development of modeling standards
Formal syntax and semantics of modeling languages such as the UML
Rigorous model-based analysis
Model composition and transformation
Metamodeling techniques
Measuring quality of models
Modeling support for aspect-oriented development
Ontological approaches to model engineering
Generating test and code artifacts from models
Model development tool environments
Case studies and experience reports with significant modeling lessons learned
Comparative analyses of modeling languages and techniques
Scientific assessment of modeling practices

Co-Founders and Editors-in-chief

Robert France
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

Bernhard Rumpe
RWTH Aachen University
Aachen, Germany

Assistant Editor

Geri Georg
Colorado State University
Fort Collins, Colorado, USA

Martin Schindler
RWTH Aachen University
Aachen, Germany

Editorial Board

Perry Alexander (USA)
Egidio Astesiano (Italy)
Joanne Atlee (Canada)
Franck Barbier (France)
Jean Bezivin (France)
Jim Bieman (USA)
Gordon Blair (UK)
Grady Booch (USA)
Lionel Briand (Norway)
Manfred Broy (Germany)
Jean-Michel Bruel (France)
Alessandra Cavarra (UK)
Marsha Chechik (Canada)
Betty Cheng (USA)
Krzysztof Czarnecki (Canada)
Jürgen Dingel (Canada)
Heiko Dörr (Germany)
Gregor Engels (Germany)
Sebastien Gerard (France)
Martin Glinz (Switzerland)
Martin Gogolla (Germany)
Hassan Gomaa (USA)
Jeff Gray (USA)
Alan Hartman (Israel)
Oystein Haugen (Norway)
Constance Heitmeyer (USA)

Brian Henderson-Sellers (Australia)
Heinrich Hussmann (Germany)
Michael Jackson (UK)
Jean-Marc Jezequel (France)
Gabor Karsai (USA)
Ingolf Krüger (USA)
Thomas Kühne (New Zealand)
Kevin Lano (UK)
Gary Leavens (USA)
Robyn Lutz (USA)
Tom Maibaum (Canada)
Ana Moreira (Portugal)
Pierre-Alain Muller (France)
Jeff Offutt (USA)
Richard Paige (UK)
Dorina Petriu (Canada)
Alexander Pretschner (Switzerland)
Wolfgang Reisig (Germany)
Bernhard Schätz (Germany)
Andy Schürr (Germany)
Bran Selic (Canada)
Perdita Stevens (UK)
Ketil Stølen (Norway)
Antonio Vallecillo (Spain)
Jon Whittle (USA)
Roel Wieringa (Netherlands)

A complete list of all Reviewers, Special Section Editors, and Theme Issue Editors can be found here.

This information is available under http://www.sosym.org/