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Preface
Models are an abstraction of a problem under scrutiny and have been crucial
components in diverse engineering disciplines and in particular, in software en-
gineering. Search-based software engineering (SBSE) is a software development
practice which focuses on couching software engineering problems as optimisa-
tion problems and utilising metaheuristic techniques to discover near optimal
solutions to those problems. Like many other domains of software engineering,
the modelling community is currently concerned with the use of examples, such
as traceability information and input/output model pairs of transformations, to
search for solutions that fall within a specified acceptance margin to solve specific
problems. We believe that SBSE approaches and example-based approaches to
software engineering offer innovate ways to better discover, manage, and evaluate
models in software engineering.
The International Workshop on Combining Modelling with Search- and Exam-
ple-Based Approaches (CMSEBA) is one of the most accurate venues to offer
researchers a dedicated forum to discover opportunities for different ways SBSE
and example-based techniques can be combined with modelling, and aims to
stimulate research in this area. This first edition has been held as a half-day event
of the 17th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages
and Systems (MODELS 2014) on September 28th , 2014 in Valencia, Spain.
The workshop was opened by a keynote speech given by Benoit Baudry
(University of Rennes, France) on searching models for proactive software di-
versification. Five contributions were accepted for presentation after a rigorous
review process, addressing various topics such as querying models by-example,
design-space exploration patterns in MDE, multi-objective model optimization,
and storing/retrieving SBSE experimental information in an open online repos-
itory.
We would like to thank the MODELS 2014 organization for giving us the op-
portunity to organize this workshop, especially to the workshops chairs, Gabriele
Taenzer (Philipps-Universität Marburg, Germany) and Alfonso Pierantonio (Uni-
versity of L’Aquila, Italy), who were always very helpful and supportive. Many
thanks to all those that submitted papers, and particularly to the presenters
of the accepted papers. We also warmly thank the many participants who con-
tributed to the open discussions with their remarks and experience. Last but
not least, our thanks go to the reviewers and the members of the Program Com-
mittee, for their timely and accurate reviews and for their help in choosing and
suggestions for improving the selected papers.
September 2014 Richard Paige
Marouane Kessentini
Philip Langer
Manuel Wimmer
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Program Committee
Slim Bechikh University of Michigan, USA
Lionel Briand University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Betty Cheng Michigan State University, USA
Iván Garcı́a-Magariño Universidad a Distancia de Madrid, Spain
Jeff Gray University of Alabama, USA
Mark Harman University College London, UK
Marianne Huchard Université Montpellier 2 et CNRS, France
Katsuro Inoue Osaka University, Japan
Gerti Kappel Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Horst Lichter RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Phil McMinn University of Sheffield, UK
Mel Ò Cinnéide University College Dublin, Ireland
Ali Ouni Université de Montréal, Canada
Simon Poulding Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Houari Sahraoui Université de Montréal, Canada
Daniel Varro Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Shin Yoo University College London, UK