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Preface
Executable models have the potential of bringing major benefits to the development of complex sys-
tems, as they provide abstractions of complex system behaviors and allow for the performance of
early analyses of that behavior. Despite the potential benefits of executable models, there are still
many challenges to solve, such as the lack of maturity in the definition of and tooling for executable
modeling languages, and the limited experience with executable modeling in much of the software
development industry.
    The International Workshop on Executable Modeling (EXE) was founded as a forum for re-
searchers and practitioners to discuss challenges of executable modeling, propose potential solutions,
and assess and advance the state of the art in executable modeling. This second edition was held
as a full-day event of the ACM/IEEE 19th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering
Languages and Systems (MODELS) on October 3, 2016 in Saint-Malo, France. Out of fifteen sub-
missions, nine contributions were accepted after a rigorous review process in which each paper was
reviewed by three members of the program committee. Four of the accepted contributions are re-
search papers presenting novel and innovative approaches in executable modeling, two are experience
reports discussing experiences and lessons learned in the application of executable modeling, one is
a tool demonstration, and two are position papers presenting new ideas and early research results on
executable modeling. The accepted contributions cover many different aspects of executable modeling
including the following:
    – engineering methods for executable modeling languages,
    – automation techniques for the development of model execution tools,
    – customization of executable modeling languages and model execution tools,
    – composition, extension, and reuse of executable modeling languages and tools,
    – scalability of model execution and execution-based model analysis,
    – model execution in the presence of non-determinism and concurrency,
    – model execution tools, and
    – case studies and experience reports on the adoption of executable modeling.
The workshop’s program comprised a keynote by Stephen Mellor on "Executable Modeling: Retro-
spective and Prospective", the presentations of the accepted papers, and a plenary discussion. The
slides of all presentations, as well as the results of the plenary discussion are available at the workshop
website: http://www.modelexecution.org/exe2016.
    We thank the organizers of MODELS 2016 for giving us the opportunity to organize EXE 2016 as
part of MODELS 2016 and for their support in the workshop organization. Our special thanks go to the
general chairs of MODELS 2016, Benoit Baudry and Benoit Combemale, as well as to the workshop
chairs Houari Sahraoui and Manuel Wimmer, whose support was extraordinary. Furthermore, we
thank all the presenters and the 35 participants who contributed to the open discussions and made
the workshop a lively and successful event. We also want to express our sincere gratitude to Stephen
Mellor, who gave us deep insights into his extensive experiences with executable modeling. Lastly,
we thank the reviewers and the members of the program committee for their timely and high-quality
reviews, and for their inputs to the workshop program.


December 2016                             Tanja Mayerhofer, Philip Langer, Ed Seidewitz and Jeff Gray
                                                                              Workshop Organizers
Program Committee
Colin Atkinson           University of Mannheim, Germany
Francis Bordeleau        Ericsson, Canada
Jordi Cabot              ICREA – UOC, Spain
Tony Clark               Sheffield Hallam University, United Kingdom
Peter Clarke             Florida International University, United States
Benoit Combemale         IRISA and University of Rennes, France
Julien Deantoni          University Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS, I3S, Inria, France
Jürgen Dingel            Queen’s University, Canada
Martin Gogolla           University of Bremen, Germany
Timothy Lethbridge       University of Ottawa, Canada
Nicholas Matragkas       University of Hull, United Kingdom
Marjan Mernik            University of Maribor, Slovenia
Zoltan Micskei           Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary
Richard Paige            University of York, United Kingdom
Alessandro Romero        Brazilian National Institute for Space Research, Brazil
Bernhard Rumpe           RWTH Aachen University, Germany
Jesús Sánchez Cuadrado   Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Spain
Markus Scheidgen         Humboldt University Berlin, Germany
Bran Selic               Malina Software Corporation, Canada
Cortland Starrett        One Fact Inc, United States
Eugene Syriani           University of Montreal, Canada
Jérémie Tatibouët        CEA, France
Massimo Tisi             Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France
Mark van den Brand       Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
Hans Vangheluwe          University of Antwerp, Belgium and McGill University, Canada