Toulouse, France           28 September - 3 October
ACM/IEEE 11th International Conference on Model Driven
Engineering Languages and Systems

Workshops

Workshop Title Schedule Room Summary Website
RuntimeModels@run.timeSept 30Seria (Mercure Hotel)gohttp://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~bencomo/MRT/
SecurityModeling SecuritySept 28Diamantgohttp://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/modsec/
ChaMDEChallenges in Model Driven Software EngineeringSept 28Spotgohttp://ssel.vub.ac.be/ChaMDE08
NFPinDSMLNon-Functional System Properties in Domain Specific Modeling LanguagesSept 28Argosgohttp://planet-mde.org/nfpindsml
TWOMDETransforming and Weaving Ontologies and Model Driven EngineeringSept 28Servantygohttp://isweb.uni-koblenz.de/events/TWOMDE2008
ESMDEEmpirical Studies of Model Driven EngineeringSept 29Servantygohttp://www.simula.no/~erika/ESMDE
ACES-MBModel Based Architecting and Construction of Embedded SystemsSept 29Spotgohttp://www.artist-embedded.org/artist/ACES-MB-08.html
MCCMModel co-evolution and consistency managementSept 30Spotgohttp://www.info.fundp.ac.be/mccm/
QiMQuality in ModelingSept 30Argosgohttp://www.ituniv.se/~miroslaw/qim08/
MOTHISModel-based Design of Trustworthy Health Information SystemsSept 30De Marmiergohttp://qe-informatik.uibk.ac.at/mothis2008/
MDWEModel-Driven Web EngineeringSept 30Servantygohttp://mdwe2008.pst.ifi.lmu.de
OCLOCL Tools: From Implementation to Evaluation and ComparisonSept 30Diamantgohttp://www.fots.ua.ac.be/events/ocl2008/

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Models@run.time

http://www.comp.lancs.ac.uk/~bencomo/MRT/

Contact: Nelly Bencomo

Date: Sept 30, 2008

Motivation

We are witnessing the emergence of new classes of application that are highly complex, inevitably distributed, and operate in heterogeneous and rapidly changing environments. These systems are required to be adaptable, flexible, reconfigurable and, increasingly, self-managing. Such characteristics make systems more prone to failure when executing and thus the development and study of appropriate mechanisms for runtime validation and monitoring is needed.

Goal

The goal of this workshop is to look at issues related to developing model-driven approaches to monitoring and managing the execution of systems. This theme and its treatment requires the bringing together of a variety of communities including researchers working on model-driven software development, software architectures, reflection (including for example architectural reflection), and autonomic and self healing systems. Discussions in the workshop will address questions such as: What should a runtime model look like? How can the models be maintained at runtime? What are the best approaches to follow when developing runtime models?

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Security Modeling

Contact: Jon Whittle

Date: Sept 28, 2008

Ensuring computer security is one of the key challenges in making modern systems safe, reliable and dependable. Sophisticated types of attacks require a holistic view of a system's vulnerabilities and necessitate security analysis techniques that take into account all phases of development. In other words, there is a pressing need for systematic methods for analysing and assessing the security of system models, where models here are interpreted broadly to include requirements, architecture and design, as well as organizational and business models.

Aims

This workshop aims to bring together practitioners and researchers in both software and system modeling and security to transfer ideas, foster new collaborations, and define a research agenda for secure modeling of software-intensive systems. Through technical presentations and directed discussions, the workshop will deliver a document outlining research challenges for the community, which will act to inspire future research and to summarize state-of-the-art work in this area.

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Challenges in Model Driven Software Engineering

http://ssel.vub.ac.be/ChaMDE08

Contact: Ragnhild vd Straeten

Date: Sept 28, 2008

The state of research and practice of model-driven engineering has significantly progressed over the last decade. Nevertheless, there are still many open problems and shortcomings of current-day model-driven software engineering. Therefore, during this workshop we raise the question of how to proceed next, and we want to identify the future challenges in the field of MDE. This workshop aims to be the place to disseminate new and revolutionary ideas, to discuss future challenges, and to encourage new ways of thinking in the field of MDE.

Consider to submit the challenges you feel are important, or to submit your revolutionary ideas or your new ways of thinking about MDE. The workshop seeks original research statements. Papers with a long term vision, providing revolutionary new ideas and "grand challenges" in model-driven software engineering are particularly welcomed.

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1st International Workshop on Non-Functional System Properties in Domain Specific Modeling Languages

http://planet-mde.org/nfpindsml

Contact: Marko Boskovic

Date: Sept 28, 2008

The NFPinDSML 2008 workshop brings together researchers and practitioners from communities dedicated to non-functional properties of software systems and researches from language engineering to study the principles of integration of various non-functional system properties and language engineering in order to further expand principles of reasoning about non-functional properties of software systems in Domain Specific Modeling Languages, and model-driven engineering in general

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Transforming and Weaving Ontologies and Model Driven Engineering

http://isweb.uni-koblenz.de/events/TWOMDE2008

Contact: Fernando Silva Parreiras

Date: Sept 28, 2008

The interest in integrating Ontologies and Software Engineering has gained more attention with commercial and scientific initiatives. The Semantic Web Best Practice and Deployment Working Group (SWBPD) in W3C included a Software Engineering Task Force (SETF) to explore how Semantic Web and Software Engineering can cooperate. The Object Management Group (OMG) has an Ontology Platform Special Interest Group (PSIG) aiming at formalizing semantics in software by knowledge representation and related technologies. The concrete results of such initiatives are the specification of the OMG Ontology Definition Metamodel, the OWL 1.1 Metamodel, the introduction to Ontology Driven Architectures and a Semantic Web Primer for Object-Oriented Software Developers.

Nevertheless, many questions come to light, as Model Driven Engineering (MDE) or Model Driven Architecture (MDA) spreads. Disciplines like model transformation and domain specific languages become essential in order to support different kinds of models in a model driven environment. Understanding the role of OWL/RDFS ontologies in these fields is crucial to leverage the development of such disciplines. Thus, we highlight the following open questions: How can the scientific and technical results around OWL/RDFS ontologies, ontology languages and their corresponding reasoning technologies be used fruitfully in Model Driven Engineering (MDE) or Model Driven Architecture (MDA)? What is the role of OWL/RDFS ontologies in supporting model transformation? How can OWL/RDFS ontologies improve designing domain specific languages? Are current query languages able to query both kinds of models?

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Empirical Studies of Model Driven Engineering

http://www.simula.no/~erika/ESMDE

Contact: Erik Arisholm

Date: Sept 29, 2008

Motivation

It is often difficult to rigorously evaluate Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) technologies. In particular, the challenges associated with the involvement of human subjects and organizations in empirical studies of MDE need to be tacked. The choice of research method (experiments/case studies/action research) also entails important tradeoffs with regards to the applicability and validity of results and needs careful consideration. The aim of this workshop is to discuss ways in which proposed model-driven engineering (MDE) technologies should be evaluated, with a specific emphasis on how to plan, conduct, analyze and report the results of empirical studies. The emphasis will be on empirical studies involving human users, since MDE technologies are typically expected to be used by software engineers to improve various quality aspects of software systems and the productivity of software development.

Goals

Research challenges that are of particular importance in the context of MDE evaluations will be discussed. Topics include: What are the main obstacles and potential remedies when performing empirical studies of MDE? What are the relative strengths and weaknesses of controlled experiments in laboratory and field settings, industrial case studies and action research in the context of MDE evaluation? How should we deal with the unavoidable tradeoffs between realism (to ensure that the results are applicable to "real" development contexts) and control (to ensure trustworthiness in the cause/effect-relationships being claimed on the basis of the empirical data)? The goal of the workshop is to pave the way for the development of a MDE-specific framework for empirical evaluation of MDE technologies, or at least provide a minimum standard for evaluation that published work in the MDE community should abide by.

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Model Based Architecting and Construction of Embedded Systems

http://www.artist-embedded.org/artist/ACES-MB-08.html

Contact: Iulian Ober

Date: Sept 29, 2008

The development of embedded systems with real-time and other types of critical constraints raises distinctive problems. In particular, the development teams have to handle very specific architectural choices, as well as various types of critical non-functional constraints (related to real-time deadlines and to platform parameters like energy consumption, memory footprint, etc.). In this context, the last few years have seen an increased interest in using model-driven engineering (MDE) techniques. Such techniques are interesting for two main reasons: (1) they allow for capturing dedicated architectural and non-functional information in precise (preferably formal) domain-specific models, and (2) they provide the premise for a layered construction of systems, in which the (platform independent) functional aspects can be kept separated from architectural and non-functional (platform specific) aspects, after which they can be combined more or less automatically via model transformations to obtain the final system.

The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in modelbased software engineering for real-time embedded systems. We are seeking contributions relating to this subject at different levels, from modelling languages and semantics to concrete application experiments, from model analysis techniques to model-based implementation and deployment. Given the criticality of the application domain, we particularly focus on model-based approaches yielding efficient and provably correct designs. Concerning models and languages, we welcome contributions presenting novel modelling approaches as well as contributions evaluating existing ones. We target in particular Architecture description languages (ADLs), Domain specific design and implementation languages, Languages for capturing non-functional constraints, and Component languages and system description languages.

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Model co-evolution and consistency management

http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/mccm/

Contact: Alfonso Pierantonio

Date: Sept 30, 2008

A core task in MDE is the manipulation and transformation of models. Thus, model co-evolution and consistency management become crucial activities to cope with the natural changes of any software system. In fact, there is an increasing need for more disciplined techniques and engineering tools to support a wide range of model evolution activities, including model differencing, model comparison, model refactoring, model inconsistency management, model versioning and merging, and co-evolution of models.

Recently, a number of works devoted to the detection of differences between models has emerged to foster enhanced model management practices. The exploitation of differences is an appropriate solution for version management, because in general the complete system model is far larger than the modifications that occur from one version to another. Apart from these works, further research is required to address the rest of the model evolution activities (refactoring, inconsistency management, versioning, etc.). Moreover, the different dimensions of evolution make the problem intrinsically difficult because modifications can reflect coherent adaptations of correlated artifacts at several layers of the metamodeling architecture. For example, some well-formed rules can be invalidated when a metamodel evolves. The same happens with the associated model transformations. Furthermore, model adaptations should be propagated to artifacts interconnected by means of model transformations. Finally, evolution of model transformations should be reflected in both source and target models.

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Quality in Modeling

http://www.ituniv.se/~miroslaw/qim08/

Contact: Jean-Louis Sourrouille

Date: Sept 30, 2008

The goal of this workshop is to gather researchers and practitioners interested in the emerging issues of quality in the context of Model Driven Development. In the long run, the aim of this workshop is to raise knowledge about Quality in Modeling to a similar level than knowledge about quality in usual development contexts. In the short run, the objective is to continue discussions on various aspects of model quality as well as to draw conclusions about a common quality model.

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Model-based Design of Trustworthy Health Information Systems

http://qe-informatik.uibk.ac.at/mothis2008/

Contact: Ruth Breu

Date: Sept 30, 2008

The objective of the workshop is to discuss model-based methods for the design of Health Information Systems (HIS) offering a revolutionary new way for the interaction between medical patients and Health Care Providers. While other information-intensive industries have developed and deployed standards-based, secure information infrastructures, healthcare has been characterized as a ''trillion dollar cottage industry'' that is still dependent upon paper records and fragmented, error-prone approaches to service delivery. The primary concern is security and privacy that needs to be organically integrated into HIS architectures.

The workshop intends to bring computer scientists, medical experts, and legal policy experts together to discuss research results in the development and application of model-based methods for representing, analyzing and integrating, architectures, privacy and security policies, computer security mechanisms, web authentication, and human factors engineering. A central focus of the discussions will be a Design Platform, which will provide a suite of modeling languages, modeling tools, model verification tools and model-based generators for building HIS, integrating HIS with Electronic Medical Record systems and the business processes of providers.

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Model-Driven Web Engineering

http://mdwe2008.pst.ifi.lmu.de

Contact: Nora Koch

Date: Sept 30, 2008

The MDWE'2008 workshop aims at providing a discussion forum where researchers and practitioners on model-driven development of Web applications can meet, disseminate and exchange ideas and problems, identify some of the key issues related to these topics, and explore together possible solutions and future works.

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OCL Tools: From Implementation to Evaluation and Comparison

http://www.fots.ua.ac.be/events/ocl2008/

Contact: Jordi Cabot

Date: Sept 30, 2008

In recent years, MDA and associated MDE methodologies, approaches and languages (like QVT) emphasized the role that OCL has to play in MDE development. Moreover, the modeling community is continuously pushing forward the OCL, far beyond its initial requirements as a precise modeling language complementing UML specifications. Now, OCL is used in quite different applications domains (e.g., domain-specific languages, web semantics) and for various purposes (e.g., model verification and validation, code-generation, test-driven development, transformations). To be successful, all these new OCL applications, extensions and usages require new OCL tools that support them.

This workshop aims to look specifically at how to develop, apply, evaluate and compare all kinds of OCL-related tools. The workshop will bring together OCL practitioners and OCL tool builders (from both academy and industry) in order to evaluate today's state-of-the-practice. In particular, the workshop will focus the discussion on how to evaluate, compare and select the right OCL tools for a given purpose, how to deal with the expressiveness and complexity of the language and how to tackle its ambiguous or underdefined issues from a practical point of view.

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