Workshop Maintenance and Evolution in Model-Based Software Engineering (MEMSE '08) September 20th, 2008 co-located with VL/HCC'08, Herrsching am Ammersee, Germany

The workshop was cancelled!

Outline

Successful application of model based development in domains like business information systems or embedded systems has demonstrated its practical relevance. However, with the shift to complex models with a long-term evolution, issues related to the reuse of models gain importance for practical application of model based development, including partitioning and maintaining models and managing their change. Adequate modeling techniques must

• support a modularization of models into different views and levels of abstractions
• provide mechanisms for defining and using libraries of models
• enable analyzing the impact of changes on the model as a whole
• facilitate versioning of (parts of) models maintaining the overall consistency
• integrate profiles supporting specific application domains (e.g., automation, business processes, web services)
• to provide a practical application of model based development.

This workshop focuses on the scientific and practical aspects of model based development (models, methods, and tools) with a focus on managing the longevity of models. Topics of the workshop include:

• Model evolution and maintenance
• Model versioning and product lines of models
• Model transformation and reengineering
• Model libraries and model reuse
• Understandability of models
• Case studies and application of model-based development
• Experiences of using models in the real-world development processes

Format of Workshop

The workshop takes places over a full day co-located with the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC) at the beautiful Herrsching am Ammersee in Germany. The workshop will contain presentations as well as working sessions. The latter has the aim to coordinate a magazine contribution about evolution and maintenance in model-based development.

Submissions

We encourage submissions in one of the following categories:

• Full papers as regular technical contributions (6 to max 10 pages)
• Industrial research and experience reports (4 to max 10 pages)
• Position papers as short problem statements, research questions, or experience reports may be 2 to 10 pages in the same format. They will be accepted if they contribute to the goals of the workshop, especially if they inspire the workshop discussions.

All accepted papers will be published as preproceedings in a technical report of Technische Universität München. Extended versions of selected papers will be published in the Journal Software and Systems Modeling. Selected participants will be invited to submit an extended version of their papers after the workshop. The initial submissions must conform to the LNCS formatting guidelines.

The submission must be sent via EasyChair.

The call for papers as text or PDF

Important Dates

• Submission: June, 23rd 2008 (Extended!)
• Notification: July, 14st 2008
• Workshop: September, 20th 2008

Organising and Program Committee

Organising Committee

• Bernhard Schätz, TU München
• Stefan Wagner, TU München

Program Committee

• Jean Bezivin, Université de Nantes, France
  
• Michel Chaudron, Universiteit Leiden, The Netherlands
• Mirko Conrad, The Mathworks, USA
• Florian Deissenboeck, TU München, Germany
• Jürgen Ebert, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany
• Robert France, Colorado State University, USA
• Jean-Francios Girard, MAN Nutzfahrzeuge, Germany
• Marcela Genero, Universidad de Castilla - La Mancha, Spain
• Udo Kelter, University of Siegen, Germany
• John Leaney, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
• Johan Lilius, Abo Akademi, Finnland
• Radu Marinescu, "Politehnica" University from Timisoara, Romania
• Ivan Porres, Abo Akademi, Finnland
• Alexander Pretschner, ETH Zürich, Switzerland
• Bernhard Rumpe, TU Braunschweig, Germany
• Jonathan Sprinkle, Tucson University of Arizona, USA
• Joost Visser, SIG, The Netherlands