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OOPSLA WorkshopBest Practicesfor Model Driven Software Development |
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This
workshop is a continuation of a highly successful series of workshops
at OOPSLA04,
at OOPSLA03,
and at OOPSLA02.
Object-oriented technology
indisputably provided us
with a better handle on complexity than previous technologies.
Nevertheless, the growing size of applications and the demands for
shorter time-to-market mean that many issues remain, and model-driven
techniques can help us address them.
Model-Driven Software
Development
(MDSD) is a new software development paradigm for distributed project
teams involving 20+ people, with roots in software product line
engineering, which is the discipline of designing and building families
of applications for a specific purpose or market segment.
What sets MDSD apart from classical software product line engineering
is the emphasis on a highly agile software development process. The
relationship between MDSD and software product line engineering can be
compared to the relationship between Component Based Development and
Object Technology: One builds on the other.
In recent years model driven approaches have been embraced by the
Object Management Group (OMG) in the form of the Model Driven
Architecture® (MDA®) initiative, Microsoft has started
to work
on software development tools that fully embrace the concepts of
software factories and domain specific languages, and a whole number of
Open Source projects are now focused on building open tool platforms
for MDSD.
The model driven Open Source initiatives in particular may turn out to
be critical in establishing MDSD as a mainstream software development
paradigm.
The workshop aims to bring together practitioners, researchers,
academics, and students to discuss best practices for the development
of model-driven software - and beyond the methodological aspect also to
discuss the state-of-the-art Open Source tool support for MDSD.
This workshop is a continuation of a highly successful series of
workshops at OOPSLA04, OOPSLA03, and OOPSLA02, which each had over 30
participants.
Topics of interest include:
The goal is to share experience,
assess the
state-of-the-art and the state-of-the-practice, consolidate successful
techniques, and identify the most promising application areas and open
issues for future work.
Potential participants are asked to submit a two-page (or longer)
position paper detailing their experience with model-driven software
development, their perspective on one or more of the above topics, and
their planned contribution to the workshop. We seek concrete case
studies and potential topics of discussion in order to ground the
workshop in real-world issues. Please
mail your submission (in PDF or Word) to Jorn Bettin (jorn
. bettin at softmetaware . com).
Model-Driven Software Development is closely related to the OMG's Model-Driven Architecture. MDSD and MDA tools will improve the quality of object oriented systems, enable increases in productivity, and will allow us to:
Abstract modeling techniques and
visual modeling
notations have been in practical use for decades in various forms.
However their impact this far has been limited by a lack of integration
with sufficiently robust and affordable code generation/transformation
engines.
MDSD is intended to provide a process framework that can be used in
conjunction with today's MDA tools and that provides organizations with
a set of best practices for the adoption of model-driven techniques.
Best practices for developing model-driven software and high quality
Open Source tools are urgently required to reduce the (real and
perceived) risks of using such techniques in commercial software
development projects.
Jorn Bettin,
the founder of SoftMetaWare,
is a software consultant with a special interest large-scale component
systems and techniques to optimize the productivity of software
development teams. SoftMetaWare provides CTO services and product line
engineering expertise to software development organizations. Over the
last decade Jorn has implemented automated, model-driven development in
a number of software organizations. He has worked in methodology
leadership roles in an IBM product development lab, and has written a
range of articles and book chapters on various aspects of managing
software development in the large. Together with Ghica van Emde Boas he
started the Generative Model Transformer
(GMT) Open Source initiative to develop an MDA tool platform in close
collaboration with several universities (www.eclipse.org/gmt).
Ghica van Emde Boas is an independent IT-Architect (www.bronstee.com),
after a 30-year career at IBM. She specializes in large Java frameworks
and in PHP/MySQL frameworks for small projects. Together with Jorn
Bettin she started the Generative Model Transformer
(GMT) Open Source initiative to develop an MDA tool platform in close
collaboration with several universities (www.eclipse.org/gmt). She
developed a model-driven generative tool, FUUT-je (now on the GMT site).
Jean Bézivin is professor of Computer
Science at the
University of Nantes, France and a member of the new ATLAS research
group created in Nantes (INRIA and IRIN). He has been very active in
Europe in the Object-Oriented community, starting the ECOOP series of
conference (with P. Cointe), the TOOLS series of conferences (with B.
Meyer), the OCM meetings (with S. Caussarieu and Y. Gallison) and more
recently the <<UML>> series of conferences
(with P.-A.
Muller). He created at the University of Nantes in 1988, one of the
first European Master Programs in Software Engineering completely based
on object-technology. His present research interests include
object-oriented analysis and design, product and process modeling,
transitioning from pure object technology to general model engineering,
and assessing the new emerging paradigm of model transformation.
Markus Völter works as an independent
consultant and coach
for software technology and engineering. He focuses on software
architecture, middleware as well as model-driven software development.
Markus is the author of several magazine articles, patterns and books.
He is a regular speaker at various conferences world wide. Markus can
be reached at voelter at acm dot org via or www.voelter.de.
William Cook is an Assistant Professor in the
Department of
Computer Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. His research is
focused on object-oriented programming, programming languages, modeling
languages, and the interface between programming languages and
databases. Prior to joining UT, Dr. Cook was Chief Technology Officer
and co-founder of Allegis Corporation, which made extensive use of
model-driven software development. He was chief architect for several
award-winning products, including the eBusiness Suite at Allegis, the
Writer's Solution for Prentice Hall, and the AppleScript language at
Apple Computer. At HP Labs his research focused on the foundations of
object-oriented languages, including formal models of mixins,
inheritance, and typed models of object-oriented languages.
Expected number of participants:
20-45
Cut-off point: 15 position papers, multiple authors per paper allowed.
If more high quality submissions are received, the organizers may
encourage submitters of papers on closely related topics to collaborate
on a joint position paper.
Potential participants will be
asked to submit a
two-page (or longer) position paper detailing their experience with
model-driven and/or generative techniques, their perspective on one or
more of the workshop themes, and their planned contribution to the
workshop. We encourage submitters to submit concrete software
development problems and/or other challenging issues from the practice.
We will interact with the potential participants via e-mail to select a
set of problems and issues to be discussed in focus groups during
workshop.
All accepted position papers will be published on this workshop page
prior to the workshop, and the participants are encouraged to read the
papers prior to the workshop.
All position papers in a zip file (2.4 MB)
The workshop will aim to foster discussion and interaction rather than presentations. Presentations will serve to introduce a case study, provide triggers for discussion in the second part of the workshop by presenting a controversial point of view, or by introducing a new point of view. All participants will be given a chance to make a short presentation (5-10 min).