2nd ECMDA Workshop on Model-Driven Tool & Process Integration

Workshop Description

Model Based Engineering (MBE) 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 of model import and export, some tool vendors do not respond to this trend out of different reasons so that adapters are provided by 3rd party vendors. All that shows, that MBE has made good progress, concerning the information representation. Now that the 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 MBE approach.

The main concern of this workshop is the integration and distribution of these information and tools and the underlying techniques which are required. The first ECMDA Model-Driven Tool & Process Integration Workshop was very well attended and focused on integration problems in complex software development processes. During the workshop the discussions were mostly driven by practical questions due to a high number of participants from industry.

Topics include, but are not limited to

• Tool integration frameworks (e.g. Repositories, Interfaces, Adapters, Transport layer)
• Distributed tool chains
• Management of tool chains
• Granularity of access
• Security and Access Control of models and tools
• Adaptation between meta modelling frameworks (e.g. MOF 1.4 , CMOF, EMF, EMOF)
• Model and model element identification
• Model Driven Enterprise Service Bus
• Model Driven process integration
• Model Based System Management
• Distributed Modelling technologies (e.g. model querying)
• Problem scenarios, User requirements, Practice reports & Success stories

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Program

09.00 Workshop Opening and Introduction
Christian Hein, Tom Ritter, Michael Wagner

09.10 Model-based Integration, Execution and Certification of Development Tool-chains
B.Polgár, I.Ráth, Z.Szatmári, Á.Horváth, and I.Majzik

09:35 Integration by Model-driven Virtual Tool
Frédéric Jouault and Thierry Guéguen

10:00 Morning Coffee Break

10:30 Difference-based Model Synchronization in an Industrial MDD Process
Patrick Könemann, Ekkart Kindler, and Ludger Unland

10:55 Mining of Model Repositories for Decision Support in Model Versioning
Petra Brosch, Martina Seidl, and Manuel Wimmer

11:20 Integration of Microsoft Visio and Eclipse Modeling Framework Using M3-Level-Based Bridges
Heiko Kern and Stefan Kühne

11:45 MDE Project Execution Support via SPEM Process Enactment
Andrey Sadovykh and Antonin Abherve

12:10 Discussion, Conclusion and End of Workshop

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Important Dates

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Organizer

Tom Ritter, Fraunhofer Fokus, Berlin/Germany (tom [dot] ritter [at] fokus [dot] fraunhofer [dot] de)
Christian Hein, Fraunhofer Fokus, Berlin/Germany (christian [dot] hein [at] fokus [dot] fraunhofer [dot] de)
Michael Wagner, Fraunhofer Fokus, Berlin/Germany (michael [dot] wagner [at] fokus [dot] fraunhofer [dot] de)

Workshop e-mail address: to be provided
Workshop homepage: http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/go/mdtpi09

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Format of the Workshop

The workshop will comprise presentations of accepted papers, tool presentations, and keynotes. Papers should be submitted in advance and will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee. All accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings. It is planned to publish bounded proceedings by the Fraunhofer Verlag (Publisher) with ISBN. At least one author for each accepted paper should register for the workshop at the conference and present the paper. For every accepted paper a second reader will make a second presentation containing questions and critiques. This shall facilitate exchange of ideas and stimulate discussions among the workshop participant.

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Paper Submission

Prospective authors are invited to submit papers for presentation in any of the areas listed above. Scientific papers, position papers and experience reports are welcome equally. Only papers in English will be accepted. Length of papers should be 5 pages minimum and must not exceed 12 pages formatted in LNCS format (http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html). Papers have to present original contributions not concurrently submitted elsewhere.

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Registration

Workshop participants should register with ECMDA 2009 registration system.

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Background

The organizers participate in the MODELPLEX project (http://www.modelplex-ist.org/) co-funded by the European Commission under the IST Sixth Framework Programme which focuses among other things on many of the items listed above.

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Program Committee

Andreas Keis, EADS IW, UK
Thomas Peikenkamp, Offis e.V., Germany
Nikola Milanovic, Technical University Berlin, Germany
Andrey Sadovykh, Softeam, France
Maria Agustina Cibran, Thales, Belgium
Terry Bailey, Vicinay Cadenas, Spain