The Fifth Workshop "From code centric to model centric: Evaluating the effectiveness of MDD (C2M:EEMDD)"

1. Overview
2. Program Committee
3. Program
4. Organization
5. Call for Papers
6. Accepted Papers

Overview

This workshop the fifth in a series on "From code centric to model centric: Evaluating the effectiveness of MDD (C2M:EEMDD)":

C2M2005 http://www.enabler.com/en/skills/ecmda/enabler-ws.html
Took place in collaboration with the European Conference on Model Driven Architecture – Foundation and Application on 8^th of November 2005. 15 participants attended the 1^st Workshop. 5 papers were chosen for presentation.

C2M2006 http://www.esi.es/modelware/c2m/index.php
Once again took place in collaboration with the European Conference on Model Driven Architecture – Foundation and Application. Held in Bilbao on 11^th of July 2006, the second workshop built on the success of the first one and attracted 7 papers and over 40 participants. The workshop managed to attract industry and academics and ended with a very successful round table discussion in which a wide range of topics relevant to MDA and its adoption were discussed.

C2M2008 http://www.esi.es/modelplex/c2m/2008/index.php
After a year break we presented the third workshop in conjunction with the 2008 edition of the European Conference on Model Driven Architecture – Foundation and Applications. The workshop was held on 12 June and had the pleasure of presenting 5 papers on differing aspects of the adoption, use, and misuse of the MDA paradigm.

C2M2009 http://www.esi.es/modelplex/c2m/2009/index.php
We decided to reduce the workshop to a half day in which we had three presentations and spent more time focusing on the discussion and round table aspects in which several key issues were raised as to how precisely to determine the success of MDD projects.

Workshop overview:

Model Driven Engineering (MDD) has the potential, by raising the level of abstraction, to provide a powerful toolset to the software development process. The change of paradigm, from code centric to model centric engineering, implies an evolution in the processes, tools and methods used by IT providers and IT divisions. This evolution is strategic and needs to be defined and planned carefully to achieve a successful adoption.

Despite many purported benefits of MDD, some companies succeed with MDD whereas others fail. There are many anecdotes of massive success of MDD but also stories of companies trying MDD who ultimately fail to adopt it.

This workshop will bring together companies and researchers to understand why some companies fail and some succeed. The workshop is interested in both technical factors that may affect MDD adoption but also organizational or social factors. The workshop will be heavily focused on industry participation and will give both academia and industry a chance to share experiences, to investigate evaluation methods, and to work towards the definition of a roadmap for research in this area.

The workshop is interested in contributions that offer insights into the following factors affecting MDD adoption: how the evolution from code centric to model centric development can be managed; the main challenges facing the adoption of MDD; how to measure success and ROI; what tools are currently available and used by the industry, methodology and best practices; what are the technical and organization factors affecting MDD uptake.

The following is a (non-exhaustive) list of topics of interest:

• Organizational impacts of evolving from code centric to model centric
• Challenges for the successful adoption of MDD: how to address them
• Measurement of successful introduction of MDD
• Tools: what tools are currently available and used by the industry?
• Similarities and differences of the use of MDD methodology in different industries
• Best practices for MDD introduction
• Current and envisaged barriers to adopting MDD
• Empirical methods for measuring issues related to MDD adoption
• Social factors affecting MDD uptake
• Frameworks for evaluating whether or not MDD is appropriate

We are particularly interested in experiences where MDD was not ultimately adopted.