The development of complex mechatronic systems requires the close collaboration of different disciplines on models of the system under development. During such a model-based development, inconsistencies between the different disciplinespecific models are likely to occur, which could lead to increased development time and costs if they remain unresolved. Model transformation and synchronization ...

In this paper we explore how the total effort spent on software development projects is distributed over different development disciplines over time. In particular, we focus on projects that employ modelbased development practises. We present empirical data that was collected from 20 industrial software development projects. We discuss how the pattern that emerges from these industrial data set...

A method for the synthesis of large Multi-Valued Logic Networks (MVLNs) using Multi-Valued Decision Diagrams (MDDs) is presented. The size of the resulting circuit is linear in the size of the original MDD. In contrast to previously presented approaches to circuit design using MDDs, here the nodes are not substituted by multiplexers. Instead, a small circuit is created representing the function...

In model-driven engineering (MDE), models constitute the central artifacts in the development process, and thus, are often built by teams of developers. As a consequence, adequate version control for models is crucial to the success of MDE-based projects. Several model versioning systems have been proposed recently. Most of them are generic in the sense that they are agnostic to modeling langua...

Large-scale software projects are often faced with the challenge of enabling the high degree of collaborative and concurrent development required to meet the aggressive delivery schedules while still maintaining a high standard of system correctness and safety. While Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) can be e ective in accelerating development, traditional approaches to addressing the above challe...

This first edition of the workshop Model-driven Software Adaptation (M-ADAPT’07) took place in the Technische Universität Berlin with the International Conference ECOOP’07 in the beautiful and buzzing city of Berlin, on the 30th of July, 2007. The workshop was organized by Gordon Blair, Nelly Bencomo, and Robert France. Participants explored how to develop appropriate model-driven approaches to...

Despite ever increasing computational power, the history of computing is characterized also by a constant battle with complexity. We will briefly review these trends and argue that, due to its focus on abstraction, automation, and analysis, the modeling community is ideally positioned to facilitate the development of future computing systems. More concretely, a few, select, technological and so...

IN THIS ISSUE, we report on two talks from the First International Workshop on Collaborative Modeling in MDE (model-driven engineering) and three papers from the 23rd International Conference on Software Analysis, Evolution, and Reengineering. Feedback and suggestions are welcome. In addition, if you try or adopt any of the practices mentioned in the column, please send Jeffrey Carver and the p...

PERSONAL WORK RELEVANT TO THE WORKSHOP My goal is to develop concepts and techniques that allow users to control and understand the ambient interactive spaces in which they live. With ambient computing, we are shifting from the control (and understanding) of systems and applications confined to a single computer to that of a dynamic computational aura where the boundaries between the physical a...

Driven Engineering Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, Frédéric Jouault, Jordi Cabot, Jesús García Molina Department of Computers and Systems, Facultad de Informática, University of Murcia, Murcia 30071, Spain. {jlcanovas, jmolina}@um.es Atlanmod, INRIA & École des Mines de Nantes. La Chantrerie 4, rue Alfred Kastler B.P. 20722 F-44307 Nantes, France. {javier.canovas, frederic.jouault, jordi.cabot}@...