MBSDPTI 2013
8th Workshop on Model Based Software, Data, Process and Tool Integration

In conjunction with
ECMFA 2013, ECOOP 2103 and ECSA 2013, Montpellier, France
July 1 - 5, 2012
http://www.lirmm.fr/ec-montpellier-2013/


Duration of the workshop MBSDPTI 2013: one full day

Date: July 1 or 2, 2013 (to be scheduled)

Organizers
Christian Hein, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin/Germany (Christian.Hein@fokus.fraunhofer.de)
Ralf-Detlef Kutsche, TU Berlin & Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin/Germany
(Ralf-Detlef.Kutsche@tu-berlin.de & Ralf-Detlef.Kutsche@fokus.fraunhofer.de)
Tom Ritter, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin/Germany (Tom.Ritter@fokus.fraunhofer.de)
Michael Wagner, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin/Germany (michael.wagner@fokus.fraunhofer.de)
Marc-Florian Wendland, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin/Germany (marc-florian.wendland@fokus.fraunhofer.de)
Andreas Keis, EADS IW, Cardiff/UK (Andreas.Keis@eads.net)
Eric Armengaud, AVL, Graz/Austria (eric.armengaud@avl.com)

Workshop homepage: http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/en/fokus_events/motion/mbsdpti_2013/index.html

Important Dates
Submission deadline: April 20, 2013
Notification of acceptance for participation/presentation: May 12, 2013
Final papers: May 31, 2013
Workshop: July 1 or 2, 2013 (to be scheduled)

Workshop Description

Integration of data from heterogeneous and distributed sources, and, at the same time, integration of software components, subsystems and systems, in order to achieve full interoperability, is one of the major challenges and research areas in software industry since decades, as well as the most significant IT cost driving factor. Methodologies, techniques and tools managing the growing heterogeneity and complexity under the pressure to reduce time-to-market and cost of integration solutions are asked all over the software market. As business (and technical) processes are the steering factor for all these integration issues, a joint perspective on data, software components, processes and the corresponding tools must be taken.

The modelling community addresses this topic since years by developing dedicated modelling languages, methodologies and tools: Model Driven Engineering (MDE) is on the advance everywhere. The reason for this success story 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 to import and export models. But still, out of different reasons some tool vendors do not respond to this trend. In this case 3rd party vendors provide adapters. All that shows, that MDE has made good progress, with regard to the information representation. Now that 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 MDE environment.

The workshop in general addresses the area of software and application lifecycle management. Its main concern is the integration of tools and efficient distribution of information in development environments underlying with process based on MDE techniques such as model transformation, in order to have consistent and manageable solutions for the software & data integration challenges. The aim of the workshop is to join researchers and practitioners in the field of software and data integration, in conjunction with development tool and process integration.


Topics include, but are not limited to
* Models and Metamodels in Software and Data Integration
* Domain Specific Modeling Languages
* Integration/Composition of Software Components, Systems & Services
* Adaptation between meta modelling frameworks
* Patterns in Models and Metamodels
* Model and model element identification
* Distributed Modelling technologies (e.g. model querying)
* Data & Information Integration (Matching, Merging, Federation)
* Semantic Integration using Ontologies
* Standards for Software & Information Modeling
* Model-Based Software Evolution & Migration
* Domain Ontologies in Integration Scenarios
* Application Lifecycle Management - ALM
* Tool integration frameworks (e.g. Repositories, Interfaces, Adapters, Transport layer)
* Management of tool chains / Distributed tool chains
* Security and Access Control of models and tools
* Model Driven process integration
* Development process formalisation and automation
* Change and Requirements Management in development processes
* Model Based System Management
* Model Driven Enterprise Service Bus
* Business Processes and Software Integration in Concrete Applications
* Cross-Enterprise Business Integration/ Collaboration
* Problem scenarios, User requirements, Practice reports & Success stories
* Model-Based Testing Approaches / Test Generation
* Integrated Testing Platforms and Tools.

This year?s edition of the workshop encourages in particular the submission of papers addressing the model-based approaches towards complex domains like embedded systems engineering as a key domain in European industry, towards complex business application like in health care, production, logistics, and in the financial market. Furthermore, the workshop also addresses Model-based Testing solutions for integrated development environments. However, the scope of the workshop is not limited to this domain and all submission will be evaluated based on their general contribution to theory and practice of software, data, tool and process integration.

The workshop is open to anybody interested in increasing the efficiency in model-driven software engineering. Based on the experiences gained from earlier versions of the workshop (see below) a high number of participants especially from industry is expected.


Earlier versions of the Workshop
The 8th workshop on MBSDPTI follows the previous successful editions of the workshops on
Model-Driven Tool & Process Integration MDTPI 1-4 MDTPI in 2008 thru 2011
and Model-Based Software & Data Integration 1-3 in 2008, 2009 and 2011 :

1st MBSDI, April 2008, Berlin:
http://www.bizycle.de/index6863.html?id=17&L=1
Proceedings of the First Int. Workshop on Model-Based Software and Data Integration, Springer-Verlag, CCIS #8, 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-78998-7

1st MDTPI @ ECMDA, June 2008, Berlin:
http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/en/fokus_events/motion/mdtpi_2008/index.html /
Proceedings of the ECMDA Workshop on Model Driven Tool and Process Integration, Fraunhofer IRB Verlag, 2008, ISBN 978-3-8167-7645-1

2nd MBSDI 2009 @ UNISCON, April 2009, Sydney, Australia:
http://www.bizycle.de/index1715.html?id=16&L=1
Proceedings of the Second Int. Workshop on Model-Based Software and Data Integration, part of: Information Systems: Modeling, Development, and Integration, Third International United Information Systems Conference, UNISCON 2009, Springer-Verlag, LNBIP #20, 2009, ISBN 978-3-642-01111-5

2nd MDTPI 2009:
http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/en/fokus_events/motion/mdtpi_2009/index.html
Second European Workshop on Model Driven Tool and Process Integration (MDTPI), CTIT Workshop Proceedings, 2009, ISSN 0929-0672

3rd MDTPI 2010 @ ECMFA, June 2010, Paris:
http://www.fokus.fraunhofer.de/en/fokus_events/motion/mdtpi_2010/index.html
Third European Workshop on Model Driven Tool and Process Integration (MDTPI), Fraunhofer IRB Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-8396-0175-4

3rd MBSDI 2011 / 4th MDTPI 2011 @ ECMFA, June 2011, Birmingham :
http://www.bizware.tu-berlin.de/MDE-Symposion-2011/
At ECMFA 2011, there was an excellent collaboration of the three well-established workshops
* The 1st Workshop on Process-Centered Approaches for Model-Driven
Engineering (PMDE)
* The 3rd Workshop on Model-Based Software and Data Integration (MBSDI)
* The 4th Workshop on Model-Driven Tool and Process Integration (MDTPI)
forming the joint Symposium on Model Driven Engineering. Proceedings are published in ?Symposium on Model Driven Engineering: Software & Data Integration, Process Based Approaches and Tools?, Fraunhofer IRB Verlag, 2012, ISBN 978-3-8396-0430-4

Format of the Workshop
The workshop will comprise presentations of accepted papers, tool presentations, and a keynote from industry. 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 with ISBN. At least one author for each accepted paper must register for the workshop at the conference and present the paper. For each accepted paper a second reader will guide a discussion slot containing questions and critiques. This shall facilitate exchange of ideas and stimulate discussions among the workshop participant.

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 6 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. Submission must be done with the easy-chair conference system: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mbsdpti2013.

Registration
Workshop participants must register with ECMFA 2013 registration system.

Background
The organizers participate in the BIZWARE project (www.bizware.org/) and the VARIES project (http://www.varies.eu/) which are European funded projects from ARTEMIS JOINT UNDERTAKING (JU). Furthermore, the organizers take part in the FP7 European projects SPRINT (http://www.sprint-iot.eu) and REMICS (http://www.remics.eu/). All these projects focus among other things on many of the items addressed by the workshop.

Program Committee (to be confirmed)
Eric Armengaud, AVL, Graz/Austria
Thomas Baar, HTW Berlin, Germany
Terry Bailey, Vicinary Cadenas, Spain
Roberto Baldoni, Rome, Italy
Susanne Busse, FH Brandenburg, Germany
Tru Hoang Cao, HCMUT, Vietnam
Fabio Casati, Univ. Trento, Italy
Rainer Ersch, Siemens, Germany
Michael Goedicke, Univ. Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Gerhard Griessnig, AVL, Austria
Martin Gro?e-Rhode, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany
Willi Hasselbring, Univ. Kiel, Germany
Maritta Heisel, Univ. Duisburg-Essen, Germany
Andreas Keis, EADS IW, Cardiff/UK
J?r?me Le Noir, Thales, France
Ralf-D. Kutsche, TU Berlin, Germany, PC co-chair
Andreas Leicher, Carmeq GmbH, Berlin, Germany
Michael L?we, FHDW, Hannover, Germany
Roland Mader, TU Graz, AVL, Austria
Fabien Paganelli, Sagem, France
Kurt Sandkuhl, Univ. Rostock, Germany
Tom Ritter, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Germany
Andrey Sadovykh, Softeam, France
Alexander Smirnov, SPIIRAS, St. Petersburg, Russia
Stefan Tai, Univ. Karlsruhe, Germany
Daniel Varro, Univ. Budapest, Hungary
Michael Wagner, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin/Germany
Marc-Florian Wendland, Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin/Germany