Model-Driven Robot Software Engineering
                 (MORSE) 2014
                    Preface


                              December 19, 2014


    Software engineering is the discipline of creating software with high quality
and good reusability. Since several years, more and more standard platforms for
service robots have appeared, and these platforms demand for high-quality, ver-
satile, and reusable software. Operating systems, such as Embedded Linux, and
distribution technologies, such as Web Services, have successfully been ported
to these standard robotic platforms enabling the transfer of a large amount of
the standard software engineering body of knowledge to robots. In particular,
there is a need for Model-Driven Software Development (MDSD) for robots,
because models can capture certain quality aspects of robotic software better
than code, enabling simpler testing, easier verification, and finally, certification
of safety-critical applications. Though code written in a classical programming
language can often not be verified for relevant features, models can, because
they abstract from unnecessary detail. And this highlights their potential for
robotic software engineering: If robot software is ever going to be certified on
the large scale, it must consist of models.
    Therefore, the objective of the first international workshop on “Model-Driven
Robot Software Engineering (MORSE) 2014” has been to assemble researchers
from both fields, Model-Driven Software Development and Robotics, to discuss
the interaction of their areas, to investigate fruitful research directions, and to
identify challenges for further research. The call for papers mentioned, among
others, the following research topics arising in the overlap of Software Engineer-
ing and Robotics:
   • Model-Driven Software Development for Robotic Systems

   • Robotic Software Platforms: Models, Processes and Tools
   • Software and App Reuse for Robotics, Robot Ecosystems
   • Model-Driven Quality Assurance of Robotic Systems
The workshop ran at the STAF multi-conference in York (GB), on July 21, 2014.
STAF already hosts two conferences for Model-Driven Software Development,


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International Conference on Model Transformation (ICMT) and International
Conference on Graph Transformation (ICGT). In consequence, the workshop
welcomed 20 participants, indicating a broad interest in the topic.
    On its call for papers, MORSE received 9 submissions. Each paper was as-
signed to three reviewers who read and corrected them in two reviewing rounds,
one before and one after the workshop. The idea was to give hints to the authors
to achieve a high-quality publication for a post-proceedings, and not to filter
out papers, because the community is young and people need to learn of each
other. We thank the reviewers for their effort to investigate the papers several
times and hope that this volume is interesting enough to justify a repetition of
the workshop at STAF 2015 in L’Aquila/Italy.

                      Uwe Aßmann, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
                       Gerd Wagner, Brandenburgische Technische Universität
                                            Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany
                                                 PC chairs of MORSE 2014

Reviewer List
Colin Atkinson, University of Mannheim, Germany
Frank Bahrmann, University of Applied Sciences Dresden, Germany
Hans Böhme, University of Applied Sciences Dresden, Germany
Birgit Demuth, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Ion-Mircea Diaconescu, Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus-Senf-
tenberg, Germany
Marc Donner, University of Applied Sciences Dresden, Germany
Kerstin Eder, University of Bristol and Bristol Robotics Laboratory, UK
Frank Furrer, Information Systems Architect, Switzerland
Sebastian Götz, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Sven Hellbach, University of Applied Sciences Dresden, Germany
Bernhard Jung, Technische Universität Bergakademie Freiberg, Germany
Alexander Jungmann, University of Paderborn, Germany
Jens Knoop, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Sebastian Richly, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Florian Niebling, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Christian Piechnick, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
Ina Schaefer, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
Richard Schmidt, University of Applied Sciences Dresden, Germany
Dietmar Schreiner, Criminal Intelligence Service. Austria
Piotr Trojanek, University of Bristol and Bristol Robotics Laboratory, UK

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