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).

News:

Colin Atkinson, Ruth Breu, Jordi Cabot, Juan De Lara, Alexander Egyed, Zhenjiang Hu, Gerti Kappel, Hong Mei, Dragan Milicev, Gabrielle Taentzer, and Wil van der Aalst joined the Editorial Board of SoSyM (January 2013)
SoSyM 10 year anniversary issue has been published:
Volume 11, Issue 4, October 2012
which can be accessed for free until the end of December 2012
Status Report (September 2012):
- impact factor: 1.061
- online access (Springer) (Jan - Dec 2011):
  Full-Text Article Requests: 24,048
- average duration from submission to decision (regular papers): 91 days (first decision), 136 days (final decision)
- acceptance rate (regular papers): 14%
- published papers (since 2002): 240
10th year of publication finished! (April 2012)

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

Advisory Board

Egidio Astesiano (Italy)
Grady Booch (USA)
Manfred Broy (Germany)
David Harel (Israel)

Michael Jackson (UK)
Tom Maibaum (Canada)
Bran Selic (Canada)

Editorial Board

Perry Alexander (USA)
Daniel Amyot (Canada)
Colin Atkinson (Germany)
Joanne Atlee (Canada)
Franck Barbier (France)
Benoit Baudry (France)
Jean Bezivin (France)
Jim Bieman (USA)
Gordon Blair (UK)
Ruth Breu (Austria)
Lionel Briand (Norway)
Jean-Michel Bruel (France)
Jordi Cabot (France)
Alessandra Cavarra (UK)
Marsha Chechik (Canada)
Betty Cheng (USA)
Tony Clark (United Kingdom)
Krzysztof Czarnecki (Canada)
Juan De Lara (Spain)
Jürgen Dingel (Canada)
Heiko Dörr (Germany)
Alexander Egyed (Austria)
Gregor Engels (Germany)
Ulrich Frank (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)
Zhenjiang Hu (Japan)

Heinrich Hussmann (Germany)
Jean-Marc Jezequel (France)
Gerti Kappel (Austria)
Gabor Karsai (USA)
Jörg Kienzle (Canada)
Ingolf Krüger (USA)
Thomas Kühne (New Zealand)
Kevin Lano (UK)
Gary Leavens (USA)
Robyn Lutz (USA)
Hong Mei (China)
Dragan Milicev (Serbia)
Ana Moreira (Portugal)
Pierre-Alain Muller (France)
Jeff Offutt (USA)
Richard Paige (UK)
Dorina Petriu (Canada)
Alfonso Pierantonio (Italy)
Alexander Pretschner (Switzerland)
Wolfgang Reisig (Germany)
Bernhard Schätz (Germany)
Andy Schürr (Germany)
Jim Steel (Australia)
Perdita Stevens (UK)
Ketil Stølen (Norway)
Gabrielle Taentzer (Germany)
Juha-Pekka Tolvanen (Finland)
Antonio Vallecillo (Spain)
Wil van der Aalst (Netherlands)
Hans Vangheluwe (Belgium)
Dániel Varró (Hungary)
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/