9 May
2016
9 May
'16
11:08 a.m.
[Apologies for multiple postings]
International Workshop on "Models and Evolution"
Co-located with ACM/IEEE 19th International Conference on
Model Driven Engineering Languages & Systems (MODELS 2016)
Saint-Malo, France, October 2-7, 2016
http://www.models-and-evolution.com/
Important Dates:
Submissions of papers: July 17, 2016
Notification: August 14, 2016
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The Models and Evolution (ME) 2016 workshop is a satellite event at
ACM/IEEE MoDELS 2016 and the continuance of the following events: ME
2014, ME 2013, ME 2012, ME 2011, ME 2010, MoDSE-MCCM 2009, MCCM 2008
(all at MoDELS), MoDSE 2008, MoDSE 2007 (both at CSMR).
This workshop addresses the evolution of artefacts of the modelling
process, as inspired by analogous evolution required by software
artefacts, with input from academic as well as industrial practice. As
Model-Based Development grows in popularity, the models used throughout
a system’s lifecycle are now core artefacts of modern software
engineering processes.
With the increasing use of Model-Based Development in many domains
(e.g., Automotive Software Engineering, Business Process Engineering),
models are starting to become core artefacts of modern software
engineering processes. By raising the level of abstraction and using
concepts closer to the problem and application domain rather than the
solution and technical domain, models become core assets and reusable
intellectual property, being worth the effort of maintaining and
evolving them. Therefore, increasingly models experience the same issues
as traditional software artefacts, i.e., being subject to many kinds of
changes, which range from rapidly evolving platforms to the evolution of
the functionality provided by the applications developed. These
modifications include changes at all levels, from requirements through
architecture and design, to executable models, documentation and test
suites. They typically affect various kinds of models including data
models, behavioural models, domain models, source code models, goal
models, etc. Coping with and managing the changes that accompany the
evolution of software assets is therefore an essential aspect of
Software Engineering as a discipline.
Important dates:
- Submission deadline: July 17, 2016
- Notification to authors: August 14, 2016
- Workshop date: one full-day between October 2-4, 2016.
Scope:
ME 2016 will bring together researchers and practitioners to share
experiences in dealing with the various forms of evolution in modelling.
ME 2016 combines a strong practical focus with theoretical approaches
required in any discipline that supports engineering practices. In
particular, ME 2016 targets researchers and practitioners on
model-driven engineering to meet, disseminate and exchange ideas,
identify the key issues related to the problem of model (co-)evolution
and consistency management, and explore possible solutions and future
work. We target, in particular, the cross-fertilisation of both the MDE
and software evolution communities. Therefore we consider models in a
very broad sense which is essential to allow researchers from different
communities to identify and discuss commonalities/differences among
their specific (co-)evolution and consistency management problems. ME
2016 will be held in Saint-Malo (France) and will host invited talks,
technical sessions, and panels. Especially, ME 2016 will foster the
interactions between the participants, stimulating lively debates and
discussions around the topics of interest of the workshop.
Topics:
Contributions are solicited on all aspects of models and evolution, its
foundations, practices and technologies. In particular, we encourage
submissions from both academia and industry about the following
(non-exhaustive) list of topics:
- Formalisms, theories, formal approaches, methods and languages for
expressing and understanding model-driven software evolution.
- (Co-)evolution and (co-)adaptation of models, meta-models and modeling
languages; classification of (co-)evolution scenarios, transformation,
and artefacts w.r.t. meta-models
- Coordination of models, meta-models.
- Transformation techniques for evolving models: restructuring,
refactoring, migration, translation, composition…
- Traceability, verification/validation of evolving models and
transformations, runtime models and consistency validation;
(in)consistency management
- Evolution and domain-specific languages
- Evolution issues in new paradigms (Open architectures, product-line
architectures, software ecosystems, Cloud computing and its SPI model,
SOA, Enterprise architectures, Internet of things, Big data, Systems of
systems…)
- Analysis of model maintainability.
- Development and maintenance processes for model consistency management.
- Conformance checking, inconsistency management synchronization,
differencing, comparison, versioning, impact analysis of evolving models
- Supporting processes and tools for managing model-driven evolution
- Maintenance and evolution of model transformations
- Variability management using models
- Software Architecture Recovery and Reverse Architecting
- Software Reconstruction and Migration
- Software Release Engineering
- Traceability maintenance between requirements and models
- Reusable evolution solutions and patterns
- Software evolution regarding energy-awareness and sustainability
- Model-based and model-related techniques for legacy systems evolution
and systems integration
- Cultural, economic, business and managerial aspects impacting software
evolution
- Training, education, and certification around software evolution
- State-of-the-art and state-of-practice in software evolution
- Industrial needs, experiments and case studies
- Empirical studies and experience Reports
- Tools and Methods supporting all of the above topics
Workshop Chairs:
Dalila Tamzalit, University of Nantes, France,
Dalila.Tamzalit(a)univ-nantes.fr
Alfonso Pierantonio, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy,
alfonso.pierantonio(a)univaq.it
Bernhard Schätz, fortiss Gmbh, Germany, schaetz(a)fortiss.org
Tanja Mayerhofer, Business Informatics Group, Institute of Software
Technology and Interactive Systems, TU Wien, mayerhofer(a)big.tuwien.ac.at
Program committee (to complete):
Vasilios Andrikopoulos IAAS, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Alessandra Bagnato, Softeam, Paris, France
Mireille Blay-Fornarino Université Nice Sophia Antipolis, I3S, France
Antonio Cicchetti, Mälardalen University, Sweden
Davide Di Ruscio, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila, Italy
Anne Etien, LIFL - University of Lille 1, France
Jesus Garcia-Molina, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA
Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc, École Polytechnique de Montréal, Québec, Canada
Rich Hilliard, IEEE Computer Society, USA
Ludovico Iovino, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy
Udo Kelter, University of Siegen, Germany,
Olivier Le Goaer, LIUPPA, Université de Pau et des Pays de l'Adour, France
Tihamer Levendovszky, Vanderbilt University, USA
Shahar Maoz, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Tom Mens, University of Mons, Belgium
Richard Paige, University of York, UK
Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Martina Seidl, Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria
Massimo Tisi, AtlanMod team (Inria, Mines Nantes, LINA), Nantes, France
Antonio Vallecillo, Universidad de Málaga, Spain
Stefan Wagner, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Konrad Wieland, Sparx Systems, Austria
Manuel Wimmer, Business Informatics Group, Vienna University of
Technology, Austria
Submission:
Both research papers, experience papers, tool presentations and
industrial feedbacks are solicited. Papers describing novel applications
and making significant research contributions are of particular
interest. On top of that, we would encourage papers proposing visionary
and strategic ideas and/or looking for collaboration around
international projects. In addition, industrial papers reporting about
experiences in the area of models and evolution, industrial tools, and
positions from industry about experience and/or case studies about
managing or putting into practice model-driven software evolution
solutions are highly appreciated. Contributions must be written in
English, adhere to the ACM SIGS format, and be submitted through
EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=me2016). Expected
papers can be short papers (6 pages) or long papers (10 pages):
Long papers (max. 10 pages): These contributions should address novel
research ideas, challenging problems, or practical contributions in the
domain of model-driven software evolution.
Short papers (max. 6 pages):
Position papers: young researchers may submit extended abstracts about
their work in progress.
Visionary papers: these contributions take a visionary stance to the
field describing long term ambitions, visionary technological
advancements, paradigmatic changes and research agendas. Note that the
ideas presented must be clearly positioned, adequately thought through,
and sufficiently documented.
Tool presentations: these submissions present (experience with) tools
(which may be either research prototypes or commercial tools) that are
fully/partially dedicated to supporting the evolution issues encountered
in model-based development.
The submission process will consist of two phases: abstract submissions
and full paper submissions.
Workshop papers will be published on CEUR (see
http://ceur-ws.org/HOWTOSUBMIT.html#PRECONDS for preconditions for
publishing).
http://www.models-and-evolution.com
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Dalila Tamzalit
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