ECMFA 2010 - Workshops

June 15-16, 2010, Paris, France

(* MDA4ServiceCloud and C2M:EEMDD are half-day workshops. Due to technical convergence between the two workshops, we strongly encourage participants of one workshop to attend the other workshop. On the registration page, just select one workshop or the other. You will implicitly get an access to the two workshops.)

Traceability is an important theoretical and practical challenge in model driven development.
Traceability mechanisms are needed in processes involving automatic model to model transformations, in text/code generation, and in manual modelling activities, as well as end-to-end traceability. We are facing challenges of keeping models consistently synchronised, models and text/code in consistent states, and mixing manual updates with automatic processes.
We invite technical and theoretical papers that address traceability issues and papers that address practical application of traceability.

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Despite many purported benefits of Model-Driven Development (MDD), some companies succeed with use of MDD whereas others fail. There are many anecdotes of massive success of MDD but also stories of companies trying MDD who ultimately fail to adopt it. This workshop will bring together companies and researchers to understand why some companies fail and some succeed, and to attempt to understand what factors lead to each outcome. The workshop is interested in both the technical factors that affect MDD adoption and also the organizational or social factors. The workshop will be heavily focused on industry participation and will give both academia and industry a chance to share experiences, to investigate evaluation methods, and to work towards the definition of a roadmap for research in this area.

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To date, the fully automatic generation of the code from models is still a dream and, if it works at all, restricted to specific application areas. One of the main obstacles is the lack of adequate models for system behaviour and model integration mechanisms. Modelling a complex system generally involves representing a combination of different types of behaviour including internal system behaviour, interaction with the environment, and collaboration between systems. Generally, different forms of model are needed for these different types of behaviour.
The purpose of the second workshop on Behavioural Modelling – Foundations and Applications (BM-FA) is to better understand the problem with behavioural models, what is needed to adequately model behaviour, and what is still lacking for modelling the behaviour in such a way that the code can automatically be generated from them.

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The first HoPES workshop aims to motivate industrial practitioners and their academic partners to express needs and give feedback on the applicability of current research results and state of the art tools for Model-Based Engineering (MBE) for Distributed Real-Time Embedded Systems (DRTES). The main goal of the workshop is to provide participants with a global view of current trends in research, requirements and needs from industry practitioners as well as hands-on experiences in which MBE tool platforms are used in industrial projects.
The focus is mostly on technical chains, dealing with tool interoperability issues, possibly using heterogeneous formalisms along the whole development process. Interoperability issues can be considered either from a "vertical standpoint" during refinement of the system description (e.g., code-generation or hardware synthesis) or from a "horizontal standpoint" when information is exchanged between composed objects, design views and modelling artefacts, possibly belonging to different development stages (e.g., from design to timing analysis or for requirement traceability).

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A new paradigm – service-orientation – is currently emerging for distributed computing and e-business processing. This new paradigm utilizes services as fundamental elements for developing applications/solutions; services will be important for customers and not the specific software or hardware component that is used to implement the services. In this context, services become the next level of abstraction in the process of creating systems that would enable automation of e-businesses. This paradigm shift is changing the way the computer software is developed and used (designed, architected, delivered, consumed, and analysed), and this way of reorganizing software applications into a set of interacting services is usually referred to as Service-oriented Architectures (SOA). The underlying infrastructure that allows such efficient service provisioning is referred to as the Service Cloud. Cloud services are accessed over the Internet via user-friendly web interfaces, are location agnostic, can be hosted through third party service providers and can be quick to improve based on real-time customer feedback.
In this context, this workshop aims to tackle the research problems using a Model Driven Engineering approach (as well as practical experiences) around methods, concepts, models, languages and technology that enable computing in the service cloud.

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Model Driven Engineering (MDE) is on the advance. The reason for this advance is the promise of handling the increase of complexity within the software and its development process by raising the level of abstraction using models as information storage. In the past years tool vendors adapted the approach of using models as information storage of their applications utilizing the advantages of these technologies (e.g. model querying, model consistency, implicit interface, notification mechanisms). Other vendors now provide the possibility to import and export models. But still, out of different reasons some tool vendors do not respond to this trend. In this case 3rd party vendors provide adapters. All that shows, that MDE has made good progress, with regard to the information representation. Now that tool internal information becomes available as models, the problem of integration and distribution still exists, and is one of the next barriers to tackle on the way to an efficient and productive MDE environment.
The workshop in general addresses the area of application lifecycle management. Its main concern is the integration of tools and efficient distribution of information in development environments underlying with and underlying process based on MDE techniques such as model transformation. The aim of the workshop is to join researchers and practitioners in the field of development tool and process integration.

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Model-based approaches are applicable for quality assurance in order to help evaluating and managing the coverage, costs, and risks related to the testing efforts. Both – the effectiveness and the efficiency of testing – can be handled by model-based approaches within integrated system and test development for software-intense systems.
The objective of the workshop is to bring together industry and academy by providing a platform for interchange, discussion and collaboration about Model-based Testing in practice. The workshop invites industrial contributions either describing challenges of system or software testing that could be addressed by model-based testing or presenting their approach to apply model-based testing in practice. In addition research papers are invited to present promising ideas or possible solutions in the field of model-based testing that have the potential to be utilized in industrial testing scenarios.

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The workshop would like to discuss how software security can be improved through the MDA approach. The main discussion topics will be:
– How security specialists can capture their security expertise in form of reusable models, in particular threat and vulnerability models
– How the security requirements and goals can be traced all along the development process
– How security models and profiles can be merged with system models in different abstraction levels
– How security models can be shared and reused
– How developers can benefit from these reusable models for specification and design (e.g. through sharing tool artifacts such as security design patterns)
– How security testing can be improved through security models.
– Which are the requirements on tools to support the creation, transformation and use of security models
The workshop will try to bring together people from both academia and industry, from all the different areas that want to/might play an active role in domain of security solutions and issue in MDA, to discuss problems, highlight possible solutions, disseminate success stories and also draft a possible research agenda.

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Workshops Chair : Arnaud Cuccuru ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ).