Software and Systems Modeling

Software and Systems Modeling is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering the development and application of software and systems modeling languages and techniques. This includes modeling foundations, semantics, analysis and synthesis techniques, model transformations, language definition and language engineering issues. SoSyM publishes regular papers, special and theme sections and expert voices.

SoSyM was established in 2002 and is published by Springer Science+Business Media.

The editors-in-chief are Jeff Gray (University of Alabama) and Bernhard Rumpe (RWTH Aachen University). Marsha Chechik (University of Toronto), Martin Gogolla (University of Bremen), and Jean-Marc Jezequel (IRISA/INRIA and University of Rennes 1) act as associate editors.

According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2013 impact factor of 0.820.

History

In the late 90ties it was clear that modeling is an important activitiy in developing software and softwrae intensive systems. The UML emerged as unified, potential standard with lots of open issues. It was necessary to create a venue, where scientists and practitioners could convene and improve the standard. The UML conference series emerged in 1999 (and was generalized to Models in 2005).

As an offspring SoSyM was established in 2002 to publish high quality and long lasting results about any modeling related research. The concept of the journal goes back on ideas of Jean Bezivin, Robert France, Pierre-Alain Muller and Bernhard Rumpe. Robert and Bernhard started the journal as Editors-In-Chief. Robert was active Editor-In-Chief until 2015, when Jeff Gray took over.

Due to the steady increase of published papers, in 2013 three additional associate editors, namely Marsha Chechik, Martin Gogolla, and Jean-Marc Jezequel where appointed.

External links

• Official website
• Journal page at publisher's website
• [1] the conference series where SoSyM emerged.