MISE 17 - Buenos Aires, Argentina

Theme and Goals

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

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
• Models for learning machines
• Models of big and smart data
• Use of models for downstream activities
• Modeling the system environment
• Modeling cyber-physical systems
• Models at runtime (e.g., for software adaptation)
• Models for what-if? analysis and prognostics
• Empirical studies
• Domain-specific modeling
• management using models
• Model reuse
• Further uses of modeling

Submission guidelines

Although the workshop is open to all, prospective participants are invited to submit a 5-7 page position or technical paper. Workshop papers must follow the ICSE 2017 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. EasyChair will be used to manage the submission review process. Paper can be submitted via Easy Chair using the following link:

• https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mise17

Important dates

• Workshop paper submissions due: January 20th, 2017
• Notification to authors: February 17th, 2017
• Camera-ready copies due: February 27th, 2017

Organizing Committee (for 2017)

• Davide Di Ruscio (primary contact), DISIM - University of L’Aquila, Italy
• Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto (Canada)
• Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University, Germany

Program Committee

(preliminary, invitations pending)

• Joanne M. Atlee, University of Waterloo, Canada
• Alessandra Bagnato, Softeam, France
• Manfred Broy, TU Munich, Germany
• Benoit Combemale, University of Rennes, France
• Krzysztof Czarnecki, U. of Waterloo, Canada
• Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University, Netherlands
• Juergen Dingel, Queen's University, Canada
• Geri Georg, Colorado State University, USA
• Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA
• Michalis Famelis, University of Toronto, Canada
• Mats Heimdahl, University of Minnesota, USA
• Dimitris Kolovos, University of York, UK
• Vinay Kulkarni, Tata Consultancy Services Innovation Labs, Pune, India
• Gunter Mussbacher, McGill University
• Richard Paige, University of York, UK
• 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