Preface




The goal of the Doctoral Symposium at STAF 2014 was to provide a forum in
which PhD students could present their work in progress. The symposium sup-
ported students by providing independent and constructive feedback about their
already completed and, more importantly, planned research work. The sympo-
sium was accompanied by prominent experts who were actively participating in
critical discussions.

Relevant fields within Software Engineering included:
 – Models: reasoning, execution, management, testing and validation
 – Model transformations: paradigms, development, applications, tools
 – Graph theories and applications
 – Domain-Specific Languages
 – Proofs and Testing: debugging, frameworks, experiments, case studies
 – Model-Driven Engineering

Any topic of interest for one of the conferences that took place within STAF 2015
was highly welcomed.

Program Committee:
 – Reiko Heckel, University of Leicester, United Kingdom
 – Jordi Cabot, ICREA, Spain / INRIA-Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
 – Manuel Wimmer, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
 – Antonio Vallecillo, Universidad de Malaga, Spain
 – Luciano Baresi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy
 – Dimitris Kolovos, University of York, United Kingdom
 – Massimiliano Di Penta, Dept. of Engineering, University of Sannio, Italy
 – Gerti Kappel, Vienna University of Technology, Austria

The organizers would like to thank the PC members who actively participated
in the discussion. The participating students also asked questions and gave con-
structive feedback to the other PhD candidates, which is also acknowledged. An
organization award goes to Alfonso Pierantonio for arranging all our special re-
quests including the three pinboards in the lecture hall for expert comments on
student papers.



Martin Gogolla, Henry Muccini, Dániel Varró