Guest editorial to the special issue on MODELS 2009

摘要

The pioneering organizers of the first "UML" '98 workshop in Mulhouse, France in the summer of 1998 could hardly have anticipated that, in little over a decade, their initiative would blossom into today's highly successful MODELS conference series. MODELS is unquestionably the premier annual gathering of researchers and practitioners working on what is starting to emerge as a bona fide new technical discipline: model-based engineering of systems and software-a discipline distinguished by the fact that it fundamentally relies on the development and exploitation of models and supporting technologies.