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Preface


The third workshop on Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) for and in the Cloud
was held on 29 September 2015 at the Delta Hotel, Ottawa, Canada, co-located
with the ACM/IEEE 18th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineer-
ing Languages and Systems. Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) elevates models
to the ’living’ artefacts that are used throughout the software development pro-
cess. MDE principles, practices and (sometimes) tools are now widely used in
industrial scenarios. Many of these scenarios are traditional IT development
and emphasis on novel or evolving deployment platforms has yet to be seen.
Cloud computing is a computational model in which applications, data, and IT
resources are provided as services to users over the Internet. Cloud computing
exploits distributed computers to provide on-demand resources and services over
a network (usually the Internet) with the scale and reliability of a data centre.
    Cloud computing is promising in terms of providing scalable and elastic in-
frastructure for applications; MDE is promising in terms of automating some of
the tedious or error prone parts of systems engineering. The CloudMDE work-
shop series aims at identifying synergies between MDE and cloud computing,
bringing together researchers and practitioners working in MDE or cloud com-
puting, who were interested in identifying, developing or building on existing
synergies. The workshop focused on identifying opportunities for using MDE to
support the development of cloud-based applications (MDE for the cloud), as
well as opportunities for using cloud infrastructure to enable MDE in new and
novel ways (MDE in the cloud). Attendees were also interested in novel results
of adoption of MDE in cloud-related domains that provided insight into early
adoption of MDE for building cloud-based applications, or in terms of deploying
MDE tools and infrastructure on the cloud.
    The workshop received 8 paper submissions (technical papers, position pa-
pers and work-in-progress papers), from which it accepted 7 for presentation at
the workshop; this included six technical papers and a shorter position paper.
Each paper was reviewed by 3 members of the program committee, and was
selected based on its suitability for the workshop, novelty, likelihood of sparking
discussion, and general quality.
    The organisers thank all authors for submitting papers, the workshop par-
ticipants, the MoDELS’15 local organisation team, the workshop chairs Wahab
Hamou-Lhadj and Emilio Insfran, and the program committee for their support.


September 2015                                                    Richard Paige
                                                                    Jordi Cabot
                                                               Marco Brambilla
                                                                  James H. Hill
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Program Committee


Danilo Ardagna                  Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Marco Brambilla                 Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Jordi Cabot                     ICREA - UOC, Spain
Radu Calinescu                  University of York, Italy
Javier Luis Canovas Izquierdo   IN3 - UOC, Spain
Marsha Chechik                  University of Toronto, Canada
Marcos Didonet Del Fabro        Universidade Federal do Paraná, Brazil
James Hill                      Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, USA
Philippe Merle                  INRIA, France
Sebastien Mosser                University Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France
Ileana Ober                     IRIT - Universite de Toulouse, France
Richard Paige                   University of York, UK
Juan F. Perez                   Imperial College London, UK
Istvan Rath                     Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Manuel Wimmer                   Vienna University of Technology, Austria