MISE 18 - Gothenberg, Sweden

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

Please submit your papers via Easychair by the extended MiSE'18 deadline of 11 February 2018 (AoE). Submissions do not need to be double-blinded.

Program

Sunday 27 May

0900-1030 Keynote - Mehrdad Sabetzadeh: "Integrating Artificial Intelligence into Model-based Development"

1030-1100 Coffee

1100-1230 Session: UML and Applications

Manar Mazkatli, Erik Burger, Anne Koziolek and Jochen Quante, Integrating semantically-related Legacy Models in Vitruvius

Guillaume Dupont, Sadaf Mustafiz, Ferhat Khendek and Maria Toeroe, Building Domain-Specific Modelling Environments with Papyrus: An Experience Report

Michele Guerriero, Alessandro Nesta and Elisabetta Di Nitto, StreamGen: A UML-Based Tool For Developing Streaming Applications

1230-1400 Lunch

1400-1530 Session: Synthesis and Extraction

Lucio Mauro Duarte, Paulo Henrique Maia and Ana Carolina Sanchotene Silva, Extraction of Probabilistic Behaviour Models based on Contexts

Damiano Torre, Yvan Labiche, Marcela Genero, Maria Teresa Baldassarre and Maged Elaasar, UML diagram synthesis techniques: a systematic mapping study

1530-1600 Coffee

1600-1700 Discussion and follow-up

Monday 28 May

0900-1030 Keynote: Jan Soderberg

1030-1100 Coffee

1100-1230 Session: Requirements

Sahil Luthra, Aprajita Aprajita and Gunter Mussbacher, Visualizing Evolving Requirements Models with TimedURN

Gianna Reggio, A UML-based Proposal for IoT System Requirements Specification

Kan Qi and Barry Boehm, Detailed Use Case Points (DUCPs) : A Size Metric Automatically Countable from Sequence and Class Diagrams

1230-1400 Lunch

1400-1530 Session: Evaluation

Lidiane Damasceno Monteiro, Marcelo Schots and Vera Werneck, Metric-Based Evaluation of Multiagent Systems Models

Harald Störrle, Improving Model Usability by Layered Diagrams

1530-1600 Coffee

1600-1700 Discussion and close

Organizing Committee (for 2018)

• Richard Paige, University of York (UK)
• Jennifer Horkoff, Chalmers and the University of Gothenberg (Sweden)
• Sahar Kokaly, McMaster University (Canada)
• Jocelyn Simmonds, University of Chile (Chile)

Program Committee

• Michalis Famelis, University of Montreal
• Marsha Chechik, University of Toronto
• Dimitris Kolovos, University of York
• Davide Di Ruscio, Università degli Studi dell'Aquila
• Alfonso Pierantonio, University of L'Aquila
• Steffen Zschaler, King's College London
• Alessandra Bagnato, Softeam
• Robert Baillargeon, Sodius
• Rick Salay, University of Toronto
• Gunter Mussbacher, McGill University
• Mats Heimdahl, University of Minnesota
• Juergen Dingel, Queen's University
• Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University
• Benoit Combemale, IRIT, University of Toulouse
• Fabiano Dalpiaz, Utrecht University
• Michel Chaudron, Gothenburg University and Chalmers, Sweden
• Jeff Gray, University of Alabama, USA
• Cecilia Bastarrica, University of Chile, Chile
• Esther Guerra, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
• Juan de Lara, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain
• Silvia Abrahao, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain

Further MiSE Information

• MISE Main Page
• MISE Steering Committee
• The call for papers is available for download here