[ecoop-info] [Extended deadlines] CFP: Flexible MDE Workshop at MODELS 2017

[Davide Di Ruscio]

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CALL FOR PAPERS

FlexMDE 2017 - 3nd Flexible MDE Workshop
(previously Extreme Modeling Workshop (XM))
http://www.di.univaq.it/flexmde/

Co-located with MODELS 2017
September, 2017 - Austin (Texas)
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Important dates
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Abstract Submission Deadline: July 7, 2017 [extended]
Paper Submission Deadline: July 14, 2017 [extended]
Paper Notification to Authors: July 28, 2017
Workshop Dates: September, 2017


Overview
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Increasingly, models are starting to become commonplace and Model Driven
Engineering (MDE) is gaining acceptance in many domains including
automotive, aerospace, railways, telecommunications, business, and
financial organizations.

Over the last years, several modelling platforms have been developed to
simplify and automate many steps of MDE processes. However, still several
challenges have to be solved in order to enable a wider adoption of MDE
technologies. One of the most important impediments in adopting MDE tools
is related to the reduced flexibility of existing modelling platforms that
do not permit applied development process. For instance, EMF does not
permit to enter models which are not conforming to a metamodel: on one hand
it allows only valid models to be defined, on the other hand it makes the
corresponding pragmatics more difficult. In this respect, there is a wide
range of equally useful artefacts between the following extremes:

- diagrams informally sketched on paper with a pencil
- models entered in a given format into a generic modeling platform, e.g.,
Ecore/EMF

At the moment, modelling platforms encompasses only the latter possibility.
However, while depending on the stage of the process it makes sense to
start with something closer to the former (to promote communication among
stakeholders) to eventually end up with the latter (to allow automatic
model processing and code generation). Thus, we are interested in exploring
the possible forms of flexibility that are required when applying MDE
processes, ranging from agile ways to develop modelling artefacts and
languages to their flexible in concrete application domains.

Flexibility is also needed to enable wider possibilities for reusing MDE
artefacts, like model transformations and code generators. In particular,
to deal with the growing complexity of software systems, it is necessary to
enforce consistent reuse and leverage the interconnection of the modelling
artefacts that are produced and consumed during the different phases of the
applied development processes. In such contexts, modularization mechanisms
have to be devised in order to enable the development of complex modelling
artefacts from smaller ones, which are easier to process and reuse.


Topics
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There is an increasing need for more disciplined techniques and engineering
tools to support flexibility in several forms in a wide range of modeling
activities, including metamodel, model, and model transformation definition
processes. The workshop aims at:

- better identifying the difficulties in the current practice of MDE
related to the lack of flexibility, and
- soliciting contributions of ideas, concepts, and techniques also from
other areas of software development.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to enhancing flexibility in
some aspect of MDE:

*Techniques for flexible meta-modelling and flexible typing
-Flexible metamodelling techniques: less static, more flexible
-Model typing
-Metamodelling by example, bottom-up metamodeling
-Support for generic programming techniques in MDE
-Dynamic typing techniques in MDE
-Multilevel metamodeling
-Typing inconsistency management
-Partial typing, multiple typings
-Constructive (top-down) and exploratory (bottom-up) modes for model typing
-Metamodelling paradigms: multilevel, two-level, archetype-based, ...

*Techniques for flexible modelling
-Model sketching
-Model abstraction
-Techniques for embedding domain specific languages in a combined language
-Modelling using mobile devices

*Flexible reutilization of MDE artefacts
-Reuse techniques for transformations and code generators.
-Reuse techniques for models and metamodels
-Definition of reusable (meta-)model patterns and transformation patterns
-Componentization techniques for MDE artefacts

*Techniques for increasing the agility of the MDE process
-Experience reports regarding lack of flexibility in using modeling and MDE
-Agility and MDE, agile modelling
-Techniques for reducing the gap between modelling and programming


Submission guidelines
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Two kinds of papers are solicited: regular papers (max 10 pages), and short
papers (max 5 pages), adhering to the Springer LNCS style. Contributions
should address novel or preliminary research ideas, challenging problems,
and practical contributions to the domain. Industrial feedback are welcome:
experience or case studies about applying MDE in an industrial setting
showing the lack of flexibility, or ways to overcome it, are solicited as
well.

All papers must be written in English. Accepted papers will be published as
CEUR workshop proceedings, and indexed in DBLP. We aim to arrange for
extended versions of the best papers to be published in a journal.

Paper can be submitted via Easy Chair using the following link:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=flexmde17


Organizers
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Juan De Lara, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid (Spain)
Davide Di Ruscio, University of L'Aquila (Italy)
Alfonso Pierantonio, University of L'Aquila (Italy)


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Davide Di Ruscio, PhD in Computer Science
Assistant Professor
Department of Information Engineering Computer Science and Mathematics
University of L'Aquila
Via Vetoio, Coppito I-67010 L'Aquila (Italy)
Email: davide.diruscio at univaq.it
WWW:   http://www.di.univaq.it/diruscio
Skype: davidediruscio
Twitter: DDiRuscio
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