About JOT
Mission
Editorial Team
Editor-in-Chief
Alfonso Pierantonio
Università degli Studi dell'Aquila
Sebastien Mosser
McMaster University
Önder Babur
Wageningen University & Research
Founder
Bertrand Meyer
ETH Zurich
Published since 2002, the Journal of Object Technology welcomes manuscripts describing theoretical, empirical, conceptual, and experimental results in the area of software and language engineering, including
- programming paradigms
- software language engineering
- model-based and model-driven engineering
- requirement engineering
- software architecture
- software validation & verification
- software maintenance and evolution
- software analytics
- software development process and methodology
Submitted works will be assessed primarily on originality, significance, technical soundness, and quality of presentation. Contributions should conform to generally accepted practices for scientific papers with respect to organization, clarity, and style.
JOT does not cover general applications of computing such as image processing, signal processing, mobile app development, IoT hardware systems, or machine learning applications, unless the paper makes a clear contribution to software or language engineering methods.
Besides technical contributions, JOT solicits papers about software tools and environments.
News
ECOOP Workshop Post-Proceedings
March 4, 2026The post-proceedings of the ECOOP workshops are now available in the Journal of Object Technology!
This special issue collects the best work presented at the co-located workshops of ECOOP, one of the most established venues in object-oriented and software language research. Guest editors Clément Aubert and Volker Stolz have done an outstanding job curating and shepherding the contributions through the editorial process.
ECOOP workshops have long been a breeding ground for fresh ideas, bold experiments, and emerging directions in programming languages, software engineering, and formal methods. We are proud that JOT continues to be the home of these post-proceedings.
Read the full issue freely accessible, no paywalls, no APCs.
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New Editorial Board Members
February 4, 2026We are delighted to welcome two new members to the Editorial Board of the Journal of Object Technology!
Dominik Bork and Antonio Cicchetti join JOT bringing deep expertise in software engineering, model-driven engineering, and related areas. Their experience will strengthen our reviewing capacity and help maintain the high scientific standards our community expects.
Building a strong, diverse editorial board is one of the cornerstones of a healthy journal.
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Indexing
JOT Journal is currently indexed by DBLP, Google Scholar, Microsoft Academic Search, SCIRUS, Scientific Commons, DOAJ, Index of IS Journals, and SCOPUS. JOT is registered under ISSN 1660-1769.
Continuous Publication Scheme
JOT uses a continuous publication scheme whereby regular papers, upon acceptance, are immediately added into a dynamic annual issue, with final DOI and other metadata.
Diamond Open Access
JOT is open-access and completely free to both readers and authors (“diamond” model). This model has been JOT’s model ever since the journal’s visionary creation in 2002 and applies to all contributions (available under the Creative Commons license).
Current Volume
Journal of Object Technology
Vol. 25 · No. 3 · 2026
ECMFA 2026 Journal First
28 articles
JOT
Volume 25, no. 3 ( 2026)
ECMFA 2026 Journal First
Articles
- Lars König, Tobias Stickling, Alexander Kocher, Hüseyin Kemâl Çakmak, Erik Burger, Veit Hagenmeyer, Anne Koziolek, Ralf Reussner, Language Design of the NeoJoin: View Definition Language, pp. 3:1-14, PDF, DOI.
- Bahareh Fatemi, Fazle Rabbi, Andreas Opdahl, Yngve Lamo, Adrian Rutle, Ontology-Grounded Modeling of Dynamic Processes: A Case Study in Conflict Analysis, pp. 3:15-28, PDF, DOI.
- Hugo Richard, Eric Cariou, Jean-Philippe Babau, Weaving executable models and code for software development, pp. 3:29-42, PDF, DOI.
- Attila Ficsor, Inez Anna Papp, Kristóf Marussy, Oszkár Semeráth, From Constraints to Commands: Graph Predicate Differentiation in 4-Valued First-Order Logic, pp. 3:43-56, PDF, DOI.
- Stéphanie Challita, Benoit Combemale, Sock: A Clock-Based Modeling Language to Specify Secure Periodic Real-Time Tasks, pp. 3:57-70, PDF, DOI.
- Shilpi Gupta, Mohammad Sadeghi, Monalisha Ojha, Colin Atkinson, Supporting OWL-Style Reasoning over UML-Style Models via Endogenous OWL Overlays, pp. 3:71-84, PDF, DOI.
- Faima Abbasi, Jean-Sébastien Sottet, Cedric Pruski, Semantic Drift Management in Digital Twins, pp. 3:85-98, PDF, DOI.
- Lissette Almonte, Jefferson Iván Rengifo, Esther Guerra, Juan de Lara, EMF-Kaizen: an intelligent assistant for domain-specific modelling and meta-modelling, pp. 3:99-112, PDF, DOI.
- Bowen Jiang, Miriam Boss, Thomas Weber, Weixing Zhang, Mattias Ulbrich, Anne Koziolek, CoCoPath: Concolic Exploration of Consistency-Preserving Paths, pp. 3:113-126, PDF, DOI.
- Nicolas Lacroix, Mireille Blay-Fornarino, Philippe Collet, Frédéric Precioso, Sébastien Mosser, A Model-Driven Approach To Support The Understanding Of Machine Learning Pipelines, pp. 3:127-140, PDF, DOI.
- Azam Mahdpipour, Vera Pantelic, Sébastien Mosser, Incremental Task-Driven Composition of Heterogeneous Software Models for Legacy System Maintenance, pp. 3:141-154, PDF, DOI.
- Karl Kegel, Kevin Feichtinger, Terru Stübinger, Romain Pascual, Bernhard Beckert, Ralf Reussner, Uwe Aßmann, Investigating Novice Modelers’ Intuitive Consistency Notions for the Case of Compositional Models, pp. 3:155-168, PDF, DOI.
- Weixing Zhang, Bowen Jiang, Rahul Sharma, Regina Hebig, Daniel Strüber, Leveraging LLMs for Grammar Adaptation: A Study on Metamodel-Grammar Co-Evolution, pp. 3:169-182, PDF, DOI.
- Sébastien Mosser, Shyam Ravichandran, Kalvin Thuan-Phong Khuu, Brian Detlor, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Anne-Marie Pinna-Déry, P.J. White, Capturing and Organizing Reusable Interaction Practices Using Justification and Feature Models, pp. 3:183-196, PDF, DOI.
- Antonios Naguib, Olga Kouchnarenko, Frédéric Lassabe, Module-based Modelling and Assessment of Modular Robots w.r.t. Energy Efficiency, pp. 3:197-210, PDF, DOI.
- Muhammad Asim Minhas, Erik Burger, Ralf Reussner, Tianhai Liu, A Unified Model-Driven Framework for Co-Designing System Architecture and Safety Analysis in Cyber-Physical Systems, pp. 3:211-224, PDF, DOI.
- Lina Bilal, Benoit Combemale, Jean-Marc Jézéquel, Quentin Perez, A Model-Based Framework for Developing DTs in Industry 4.0, pp. 3:225-238, PDF, DOI.
- Bianca Wiesmayr, Antonio Garmendia, Alois Zoitl, Manuel Wimmer, An Interpreter-Based Execution Framework for IEC 61499 Function Block Networks, pp. 3:239-252, PDF, DOI.
- Anish Bhobe, Dominique Blouin, Laurent Pautet, Policy-Driven Change Management in Model Based Systems Engineering, pp. 3:253-266, PDF, DOI.
- Quang-Duy Nguyen, Fatima Danash, Arnab Sinha, Chokri Mraidha, Product Digital Twin Ontology: A Pivot for Bridging Asset Administration Shell-based and Ontology-based Digital Product Passports, pp. 3:267-280, PDF, DOI.
- Bowen Jiang, Nathan Hagel, Haowei Cheng, Benedikt Jutz, Arne Lange, Weixing Zhang, Rahul Sharma, Ralf Reussner, Anne Koziolek, LLM4MTLs: Automated Generation and Empirical Evaluation of Model Transformation Languages, pp. 3:281-294, PDF, DOI.
- Dirk Friedenberger, Jonas Henschel, Lukas Pirl, Can André Dautel, Andreas Polze, Achieving Traceability and Reproducibility for Heterogeneous MBSE Processes using Ontology-Based Orchestration, pp. 3:295-308, PDF, DOI.
- Thi Dinh Tran, Maria Teresa Rossi, Davide Soldati, Mauro Sonzogni, Amleto Di Salle, Ludovico Iovino, Leonardo Mariani, Structural-Semantic Clustering for Architectural Models, pp. 3:309-322, PDF, DOI.
- María Belén Rodríguez, Petra van den Bos, PICKLES: a Natural Language Framework for Requirement Specification and Model-Based Testing, pp. 3:323-336, PDF, DOI.
- Tannaz Zameni, Petra van den Bos, Arend Rensink, Disjunction Composition of BDD Transition Systems for Model-Based Testing, pp. 3:337-350, PDF, DOI.
- Léo Olivier, Marcos Didonet Del Fabro, Sébastien Gérard, Hybrid Collaborative Modeling: Problem Analysis, Requirements, and Architectural Principles, pp. 3:351-364, PDF, DOI.
- Ankit Jha, Rosemary Monahan, Hao Wu, Automated Benchmark Generation for Object Constraint Language (OCL) with SMT-Based Verification, pp. 3:365-378, PDF, DOI.
- James Pontes Miranda, Ansgar Radermacher, Fabien Baligand, Julie Bonnail, Kunal Suri, Pascal Bannerot, Marcos Didonet Del Fabro, LLM-Powered Multi-Agent Systems: Exploring Documentation-Driven Metamodeling, pp. 3:379-392, PDF, DOI.