MISE 15 - Firenze (Florence, Florenz), Italy

Theme and Goals

Models have long been used in the development of complex systems. Their use is becoming more prevalent in the software development domain as modeling techniques and tools mature. Despite this, there are many challenging issues that the modeling research community must address if software modeling practices are to become mainstream. Furthermore software and systems become more intertwined and the modeling techniques used for systems engineering need to be harmonized with software models.

The primary goal of this workshop is to foster exchange of innovative ideas on the use of models in software engineering. Another goal of this workshop is to further promote cross-fertilization between the model-driven engineering (MDE) communities (e.g., MODELS) and software-engineering communities. Previous versions of the workshop showed that while there is great interest in collaborations and discussions across these communities, there are differences in terminologies and concepts that need to be harmonized for effective communication to take place. To ensure that discussions at the 2015 workshop progress beyond the basic alignment of concepts, potential workshop participants will be encouraged to familiarize themselves with the papers presented at the previous and current MiSE workshop in the calls for papers and for participation.

The workshop provides a forum for discussing and critically analyzing modeling techniques with respect to their purposes in software engineering processes. Participants engage in the exchange of innovative technical ideas and experiences related to modeling, including modeling notations, abstraction techniques, modeling strategies, and use of models in development activities, including system configuration, system simulation, testing, and product line variability management.

The purpose of a model and the domain it describes determine the types of abstractions that are useful and the degree of formality and precision needed. We identify the following major purposes of software modeling:

Exploration: Models are used to explore and learn about the problem to be solved, where the “problem” can be, for example, requirements identification, system specification, system or component design, complex protocol or algorithm design. Of particular interest is the use of models to enable “what-if?” analysis and prognostics (e.g., prediction), such as via models of ‘big data’.

Communication: Communication models are used to document software decisions (e.g., requirements, designs, and deployment decisions), or to enable discussion, conversation and negotiation between different stakeholder groups with different perspectives, vocabularies and needs.. Support for downstream activities: We use software models to answer questions or check properties (e.g., correctness, fitness of use) of the modeled artifact, to generate other artifacts, or to configure existing systems.

Configurability and adaptation: We use models at runtime to configure the system and adapt it to changed needs of the users. A model of the environment also allows a system to capture its knowledge about the context it controls or communicates with.

Call for papers

The purpose of this 2-day workshop is to promote the use of models in the engineering of software systems. In particular, we are interested in the exchange of innovative technical ideas and experiences related to modeling. Engineers have used models to effectively manage complexity for centuries, and there is a growing body of work on the use of models to manage inherent problem and solution complexity in software development. The use of software models will become more prevalent as methodologies and tools that manipulate models at various levels of abstraction become available.

Workshop activities will focus on analyzing successful applications of software-modeling techniques to gain insights into challenging modeling problems, including: (1) identifying, describing, and using appropriate abstractions, (2) supporting incremental, iterative development through the use of appropriate model composition, transformation and other model manipulation operators, and (3) automated analysis of possibly large, possibly incomplete models to determine the presence or absence of desired and undesired properties. Topics of interest include:

• Modeling notations and tools
• Metamodeling
• Abstractions and modeling methodologies
• Model-based analysis and synthesis
• Model transformation and composition
• Model evaluation
• Model management
• Extracting models from software artifacts (e.g., program system or program understanding)
• Use of models for downstream activities (e.g., generating test cases)
• Modeling the system environment
• Models at runtime (e.g., for software adaptation)
• Models for “what-if?” analysis and prognostics
• Empirical studies
• Domain-specific modeling
• Variability management using models
• Model reuse
• Further uses of modeling

Prospective participants are invited to submit a 4-6 page position or technical paper. Workshop papers must follow the ICSE 2015 Format and Submission Guideline. All submissions will be reviewed by members of the program committee and the organizing committee for quality and relevance. Accepted papers will become part of the workshop proceedings. Papers can be submitted via Easychair

Important Next Dates

• New paper submission deadline: UPDATED January 30, 2015
• Author notifications: February 18, 2015

• Camera-ready copies: February 27, 2015

Organizing Committee

• Jeff Gray(primary contact), University of Alabama, USA
• Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto, Canada
• Vinay Kulkarni, Tata Consultancy Services Innovation Labs, Pune, India
• Richard Paige, University of York, UK

Program

16 May 2015

Proceedings for MiSE (and the rest of ICSE!) can be found here.

0900-0905 Welcome from the organisers (Jeff Gray, Marsha Chechik, Vinay Kulkarni, Richard Paige)

0905-1030 Keynote: Sebastian Uchitel (chair: Marsha Chechik)

1030-1100 Coffee Break

Session: Model Quality (chair: Richard Paige)

1100-1125 Matthew Stephan and James R. Cordy, Identifying Instances of Model Design Patterns and Antipatterns Using Model Clone Detection

1125-1150 Juri Di Rocco, Davide Di Ruscio, Ludovico Iovino and Alfonso Pierantonio, Mining Correlations of ATL Model Transformation and Metamodel Metrics

1150-1215 Kai Niklas, Joel Greenyer and Kurt Schneider, Towards Application and Evolution of Model-Based Heuristics for Improving SOA Service Design

1215-1230 Group discussion

1230-1400 Lunch

Session: Composition and Modularity (chair: Shiva Nejati)

1400-1425 Maria Spichkova and Heinz Schmidt, Reconciling a Component and Process View

1425-1450 Takuya Fukamachi, Naoyasu Ubayashi, Shintaro Hosoai and Yasutaka Kamei, Modularity for Uncertainty

1450-1515 Sandy Beidu, Jo Atlee and Pourya Shaker, Incremental and Commutative Composition of State-machine Models of Features

1515-1530 Group discussion

1530-1600 Coffee

Session: Composition and Field Studies (chair: Vinay Kulkarni)

1600-1625 Pedro Rodrigues, Emil Lupu and Jeff Kramer, Compositional Reliability Analysis for Probabilistic Component Automata

1625-1650 Eirini Kalliamvakou, Marc Palyart, Gail C. Murphy and Daniela Damian, A Field Study of Modellers at Work

1650-1715 Group discussion and preparation for Day 2

17 May 2015

0900-0905 Organisational remarks

Session: Position and Problem Statements (chair: Matthew Stephan)

0905-0930 Alicia Grubb, Adding Temporal Intention Dynamics to Goal-modeling: A Position Paper

0930-0955 Brian Henderson-Sellers, Cesar Gonzalez-Perez, Owen Eriksson, Par Agerfalk and Greg Walkerden, Software Modelling Languages: A Wish List

0955-1020 Giuliano Casale, Danilo Ardagna, Matej Artac, Franck Barbier, Elisabetta Di Nitto, Alexis Henry, Gabriel Iuhasz, Christophe Joubert, Jose Merseguer, Victor Ion Monteanu, Juan Fernando Perez, Dana Petcu, Matteo Rossi, Craig Sheridan, Ilias Spais and Daniel Vladusic, DICE: Quality-Driven Development of Data-Intensive Cloud Applications

1020-1030 Group discussion

1030-1100 Coffee

Session: Applications of Modeling (chair: Davide di Ruscio)

1100-1125 Darko Durisic, Miroslaw Staron and Matthias Tichy, ARCA - Automated Analysis of AUTOSAR Meta-Model Changes

1125-1150 Laurens Sion, Koen Yskout, Alexander van den Berghe, Riccardo Scandariato and Wouter Joosen, MASC: Modelling Architectural Security Concerns

1150-1215 Valerio Panzica La Manna, Joel Greenyer, Donato Clun and Carlo Ghezzi, Towards Executing Dynamically Updating Finite-State Controllers on a Robot System

1215-1230 Group discussion

1230-1400 Lunch

1400-1530 Panel discussion: how do we measure model quality, the quality of modeling research and the quality of modeling languages? (Chair: Jeff Gray; Panelists: Bernhard Rumpe, Marsha Chechik, Jennifer Horkoff, Alfonso Pierantonio)

1530-1600 Coffee

1600-1700 Group discussion and wrap-up

Program Committee

• Alessandra Bagnato, Softeam, France
• Lionel Briand, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
• Manfred Broy, TU Munich, Germany
• Benoit Combemale, University of Rennes, France
• Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, Netherlands
• Juergen Dingel, Queen’s University, Canada
• Davide Di Ruscio, University of L’Aquila, Italy
• Geri Georg, Colorado State University, USA
• Krzysztof Czarnecki, U. of Waterloo, Canada
• Michalis Famelis, University of Toronto, Canada
• Mats Heimdahl, University of Minnesota, USA
• Michael Jackson, The Open University, UK
• Dimitris Kolovos, University of York, UK
• Jeff Kramer, Imperial College London, UK
• Gunter Mussbacher, McGill University
• Shiva Nejati, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
• Alfonso Pierantonio, University of L’Aquila, Italy
• Rick Salay, University of Toronto, Canada
• Yu Sun, Cal Poly Pomona, USA
• Steffen Zschaler, King’s College London, UK

Further MiSE Information

• MISE Main Page
• MISE Steering Committee