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Joint workshop ME + AMMoRe '20

(Models and Evolution + Analytics and Mining of Model Repositories) Workshops

List of accepted papers   Detailed Program

The 14th Workshop on Models and Evolution (ME) 2020 is a satellite event at ACM/IEEE 23rd International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems - MODELS

Software artefacts constantly increase in complexity, variety and novelty. Environment and business constraints, user requirements and new insights put additional pressure on their adaptability, availability, reliability and quality: they continuously need to be up to date. But evolution issues are critical, complex and costly to manage. They concern requirements, architecture, design, source code, documentation, integration or deployment. They also typically affect various kinds of models (data, behavioural, domain, source code or goal models). Addressing and managing these varieties of changes is essential. Models and meta-models, the cornerstone of complex software systems’ abstractions, represent a powerful mean for facing software evolution challenges by ensuring a more abstract and expressive modeling of software evolution. They can help and guide software evolution and can enforce and reduce critical risks and important involved resources. The workshop puts the focus on Models and Evolution by considering two main sides: (1) Managing software evolution needs by relying on the high-level abstraction power of models and meta-models. (2) Managing model and metamodel evolution needs and the co-evolution of all related software artefacts by putting attention to their increasing evolution issues as they become primary artefacts.

Organizers:
Ludovico Iovino
Gran Sasso Science Institute (Italy)
Alfonso Pierantonio
University of L'Aquila (Italy)
Dalila Tamzalit
LS2N, Université de Nantes (France)

Important Dates

  • Abstract submission: July 14, 2020
  • Paper submission: July 26, 2020
  • Notification to authors: August 21, 2020
  • Camera ready version: August 28, 2020
  • Workshop date: October 16, 2020

Program Committee

Ludovico IovinoGran Sasso Science Institute, L'Aquila
Francesco Basciani University of L'Aquila, Italy
Alessio BucaioniMälardalen University
Alfonso PierantonioUniversity of L'Aquila
Dalila TamzalitUniversity of Nantes, LS2N - CNRS UMR 6004
Federico CiccozziMälardalen University
Adrian RutleWestern Norway University of Applied Sciences
Davide Di RuscioUniversità degli Studi dell'Aquila
Mahmoud El HamlaouiENSIAS, Rabat IT Center, UM5R, Morocco
Jesús Sánchez CuadradoUniversidad de Murcia
Eugene SyrianiUniversity of Montreal
Andreas WortmannRWTH Aachen University
Man ZhangKristiania University College, Oslo, Norway
Leen LambersHasso-Plattner-Institut, Universität Potsdam
Arend RensinkUniversity of Twente
Massimo TisiIMT Atlantique, LS2N (UMR CNRS 6004)
Djamel Eddine KhelladiDIVERSE Team, IRISA-INRIA, CNRS, Université Rennes 1
Jeff GrayUniversity of Alabama
Anthony AnjorinPaderborn University
Antonio CicchettiMälardalen University
Udo KelterUniversity of Siegen, Germany
Saheed PopoolaUniversity of Alabama

Topics of Interest

  • Formalisms, theories, formal approaches, methods and languages for expressing and understanding model-driven software evolution
  • Supporting processes and tools for managing model-driven software evolution
  • (Co-)evolution and (co-)adaptation of models, meta-models and modeling languages; classification of (co-)evolution scenarios
  • Conformance checking, inconsistency management, synchronization, differencing, comparison, impact analysis of evolving models
  • Transformation techniques for evolving models: restructuring, refactoring, migration, translation, composition, versioning, etc.
  • Maintenance and evolution of domain-specific languages
  • Maintenance and evolution of model transformations
  • Traceability maintenance, verification, and validation of evolving models, evolving model transformations, and evolving modeling languages; runtime models
  • Analysis of model maintainability
  • Variability management using models
  • Model-driven software architecture recovery, reverse architecting, reconstruction, migration and software release engineering
  • Model-based and model-related techniques for legacy systems evolution and systems integration
  • Reusable evolution solutions and patterns
  • Evolution issues in new and emerging systems and paradigms (e.g., cyber-security, cyber-physical systems, systems of systems, systems engineering, Internet of Things, cloud computing and its Software, Platform, Infrastructure (SPI) model, data analytics, big data, social media, devices and services, mobile applications, open source software, sustainability and modeling for social good, open architectures, product-line architectures, software ecosystems, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), micro-services, enterprise architectures)
  • Model-driven software evolution regarding energy-awareness and sustainability
  • Training, education, and certification around software evolution
  • State-of-the-art and state-of-practice in software evolution
  • Empirical studies, industrial needs, experience reports and experiments in software evolution
  • Tools and methods supporting all of the above topics

Submission Guidelines

We solicit papers of three main types: research papers, position papers and tool presentations as follows:

  1. Research papers (max. 10 pages including references): These submissions provide novel contributions on topics of the workshop presenting novel ideas, addressing challenging problems, or making practical contributions.
  2. Position papers (max. 5 pages):
    • Work in progress papers by young researchers: These submissions present early work and preliminary research results of young researchers in topics related to the workshop.
    • Visionary papers: We encourage papers proposing visionary and strategic ideas and/or looking for collaborations around international projects. These submissions 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.
    • Industrial experience: Industrial papers reporting about experiences in the area of models and evolution, novel 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.
  3. Tool presentations (max. 5 pages): These submissions present (experience with) tools (which may be either research prototypes or commercial tools) that are fully/partially dedicated to supporting model-based software evolution and evolution issues encountered in model-based development.
Contributions: All papers submitted to the workshop should have at least 5 pages and 10 pages for full papers following the same style and format of the main tracks of the Conference. Formatting instructions are available at https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template for both LaTeX and Word users. LaTeX users must use the provided acmart.cls and ACM-Reference-Format.bst without modification, enable the conference format in the preamble of the document (i.e., \documentclass[sigconf,review]{acmart}), and use the ACM reference format for the bibliography (i.e., \bibliographystyle{ACM-Reference-Format}). 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 exibility, or ways to overcome it, are solicited as well. All submissions will be subjected to single-blind reviews, who are expert or have been experiencing in the related field for years. Accepted papers will be published as ACM proceedings, and indexed in DBLP and Scopus. Contributions must be submitted through the ME 2020 EasyChair submission page.

Program

Date-Time Talk/Event
07:00 - 08:00
 Opening Remarks + Keynote by Davide Di Ruscio
"On the way of listening to the crowd for supporting modeling activities"
08:00
Session: Models and Evolution (Session Chair: Dalila Tamzalit)
08:00 - 08:20
Lorenzo Bettini, Davide Di Ruscio, Ludovico Iovino and Alfonso Pierantonio "Edelta 2.0: Supporting Live Metamodel Evolutions"
08:30 - 09:00  Coffee Break
09:00 - 09:30
Session: Models and Evolution (Session Chair: Dimitris Kolovos)
Hugo Lourenço, Joana Tavares, Rui Eugénio, Miguel Lourenço and Tiago Simões "LUV is not the answer: Continuous delivery of a model-driven development platform"
09:30 - 10:00
Owen Reynolds, Nelly Bencomo and Antonio Garcia-Dominguez "Automated Provenance Graphs for models@run.time"
10:00
Session: Analytics and Mining of Model Repositories (Session Chair: Djamel Eddine Khelladi )
10:00 - 10:30
Angela Barriga, Davide Di Ruscio, Ludovico Iovino, Phuong Nguyen and Alfonso Pierantonio "An Extensible Tool-Chain for Analyzing Datasets of Metamodels"
10:30 - 11:00  Coffee Break
11:00 - 11:30
Ludovico Iovino, Davide Di Ruscio, Amleto Di Salle and Alfonso Pierantonio "Metamodel Deprecation to Manage Technical Debt in Model Co-evolution"
11:30 - 12:00
  Closing, discussion on the future of the workshops

THE VENUE

The Workshop on Models and Evolution is a satellite event of MODELS 2020. MODELS, the ACM/IEEE 23rd International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, is the premier conference series for model-driven software and systems engineering, and is organized with support of ACM SIGSOFT and IEEE TCSE. Since 1998, MODELS has covered all aspects of modeling, from languages and methods, to tools and applications. Attendees of MODELS come from diverse backgrounds, including researchers, academics, engineers and industrial professionals. MODELS 2019 is a forum for participants to exchange cutting-edge research results and innovative practical experiences around modeling and model-driven software and systems. This year’s edition will provide an opportunity for the modeling community to further advance the foundations of modeling, and come up with innovative applications of modeling in emerging areas of cyber-physical systems, embedded systems, socio-technical systems, cloud computing, big data, machine learning, security, open source, and sustainability.

Contact us

In case of questions, contact us via an email to me2020@easychair.org.