Workshops and Symposia at MODELS 2007

摘要

Following the tradition of previous instances of the MODELS conference series, Valso in 2007 a number of workshops and symposia were hosted. 11 workshops and two symposia complemented the main conference by providing room for important subject areas and enabling a high degree of interactivity. The selection of the workshops has been organized like in former instances of the MODELS conference series by a workshop selection committee. The following well known experts agreed to serve on this committee: 1. Gabor Karsai, Vanderbilt University, USA 2. Thomas Kiihne, Darmstadt University of Technology, DE 3. Jochen Kiister, IBM Research Zurich, CH 4. Henry Muccini, University of L'Aquila, IT 5. Sebastian Uchitel, Imperial College London, UK The workshops provided collaborative forums for particular topics. They enabled a group of participants to exchange recent and/or preliminary results, to conduct intensive discussions, or to coordinate efforts between representatives of a technical community. They served as forums for lively discussion of innovative ideas, recent progress, or practical experience on model-driven engineering for specific aspects, specific problems, or domain-specific needs. In addition, like in previous editions there have been a Doctoral Symposium and an Educators' Symposium. The Doctoral Symposium provided specific support for Ph.D. students to discuss their work and receive useful guidance for the completion of the dissertation research. The Educators' Symposium addressed how to educate students as well as practitioners to move from the traditional thinking to an engineering approach based on models. A more detailed description of the workshops and symposia is provided in the following two sections. A corresponding satellite-event proceeding will be published in the LNCS series by Springer after the conference, featuring summaries as well as revised selected papers from the workshops, the Doctoral Symposium, and the Educators' Symposium.