Motivations
Model artifacts are subject to constant evolution throughout the lifecycle of sys- tems. The evolutionary pressure emerges from various technical and business factors throughout the overall software/system engineering endeavor. Pertinent examples of such factors include changing requirements, changing environment, and changing user base, all of which give rise to unique evolutionary challenges in various system artifacts from architecture to implementation, and even in infor- mal artifacts, such as documentation. These challenges, if left unmanaged, may lead to deteriorating quality attributes, and in severe cases inconsistent artifacts or even incorrect artifacts, preventing the system from operating as intended. Therefore, proper support for efficient and effective evolution is required. The Models and Evolution workshop promotes novel theories, techniques, and tools to support evolution. To this end, the workshop brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss the latest developments on the topic.
Topic of Interest
The topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:
- Foundations
- Theories, methods, and tools for (meta-)model evolution
- Co-evolution across multiple meta-levels (incl. instance and data levels)
- Correctness and quality aspects
- Consistency and correctness of evolving models
- Verification and validation of evolving models
- Applications
- Software migration, reconstruction, reuse, and repurposing
- Evolution of heterogeneous systems, e.g., CPS and digital twins, including the (co-)evolution of virtual and physical artifacts and infrastructure
- Empirical works, industry reports, patterns and catalogs, training and education in the area of model evolution
