FOURTH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON COLLABORATIVE MODELLING IN MDE (COMMitMDE 2019)
15-20 September 2019 – Munich, Germany
Co-located with MoDELS 2019: http://www.modelsconference.org/
EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=commitmde2019
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Paper submission deadline: June 28, 2019 July 05, 2019
Notification of acceptance: July 26, 2019
Camera ready submission: August 5, 2019
Workshop: September 16, 2019
THEME AND TOPICS OF INTEREST
Collaborative software engineering deals with methods, processes and tools for enhancing collaboration, communication, and coordination (3C) among team members. Artifacts subject to collaborative software engineering are not only code or documentation, but models as well.
In the context of MDSE, a collaborative MDE approach is a method or technique in which:
- models are the first-class elements that drive both the software development activities and the other model-based tasks in the context of a software engineering process
- at least one repository exists for managing the persistence of the models
- at least a modelling tool exists for allowing each stakeholder involved in the modelling activities to create, edit, and delete models
- at least a communication means exists for allowing involved stakeholders to be aware of what the other stakeholders collaborating with them are doing (e.g., chat, social network, wiki, asynchronous messaging system, issue tracker)
- at least a collaboration means exists for allowing involved stakeholders to work on the modelling artifacts collaboratively (e.g., model versioning systems, model merging mechanisms, systems for model conflicts management and visualization).
The objective of this workshop is to bring together experts in model driven software engineering and collaborative software engineering in order to give evidence on the research and development going on on this topic.
The importance of collaborative MDE is evidenced in a number of sources and recently empowered by the prominence of agile methods, open source software projects, and global software development. Modelling tools, embracing new collaborative means and features are being released, such us GenMyModel, WebGME, or FlexiSketch.
This workshop has the dual role of investigating the potential impact of collaborative software engineering activities and principles into MDE practices, as well as MDE support to collaborative SE.
The main objectives we want to achieve by running this workshop are:
- Check the state of the research and practice on Collaborative MDE
- Create links between tool vendors, researchers, and practitioners
- Inform the community about the new means for collaborative MDE
- Identify needs and gaps in the Collaborative MDE community
CONTRIBUTIONS
We consider COMMitMDE topics to be foundational to the MODELS community, and orthogonal to most of the methods and techniques developed by the MODELS community. As briefly reported above, COMMitMDE will look at model editing, model merging, conflict management, repositories, multi-view, modeling and metamodeling from a collaborative perspective. A non-exhaustive list of topics includes:
- Collaborative MDE design
- Requirements engineering with collaborative MDE
- Metamodel-level collaboration
- Multi-view collaborative MDE
- The role of off-the-shelf VCS/forges in MDE
- Web-based model editing
- Collaborative MDE practices
- Academic and industrial needs in collaborative MDE
- Case studies and experience reports
- Scalable repositories for collaborative modeling
- Multi-user modeling environments
- Synchronization mechanisms like model migration and merging
- Conflict management
- Model versioning and model comparison support
- New collaborative modeling means like social networks, bots, mobile devices
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission deadline: June 28, 2019 July 05, 2019
Notification of acceptance: July 26, 2019
Camera ready submission: August 5, 2019
Workshop: September 16, 2019
SUBMISSION
Papers can be submitted via EasyChair:
https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=commitmde2019
Each paper must be submitted in PDF and be formatted according to the
IEEE formatting instructions: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html
Submitted papers must describe novel work and not be published elsewhere. All papers will be peer-reviewed and assessed for relevance to the workshop topics, technical soundness, innovation, scientific and presentation quality.
Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE online proceedings (IEEE Satellite Event Proceedings) and indexed by IEEE Xplore Digital Library, DBLP and Scopus.
Papers must be submitted in PDF format and strictly adhere to the IEEE format. Contributions should represent original and previously unpublished ideas that are currently not under review in any conference or journal; the workshop’s language is English. Each submitted paper undergoes a formal peer review process by a minimum of 3 Program Committee members. Submitted papers should include authors’ names, affiliations and contact information.
We accept two types of submissions:
- Regular research papers (minimum 6 pages, maximum 10 pages, including figures, appendices AND references): full papers clearly describe the situation or the problem tackled, the relevant state of the art, the position or solution suggested and the potential benefits of the contribution. Systematic and empirical reports are welcome too.
- Short papers (of maximum 6 pages, including figures, appendices AND references): short papers include tool demonstrations, position papers, industrial experiences and case-studies, well-pondered and sufficiently documented visionary papers.
Accepted papers must be presented by (one of) the author(s).
Contact:
If you have questions, contact us by email at: commitmde2019@easychair.org.