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MODELS 2017 Doctoral Symposium Summary
Nelly Bencomo∗ , Julia Rubin† ,
∗ Aston University, UK, Email: nelly@acm.org
† TUniversity of British Columbia, Canada, Email: mjulia@ece.ubc.ca
Abstract—The Doctoral Symposium at MODELS 2017 brought Session: Features and Product Lines
together nine (9) doctoral students and at least eight (8) mentors - Xin Zhao. Feature-oriented Modeling for Collaborative
who volunteered to spend a day discussing student research pre- Virtual Environment Construction
sentations. A truly international representation among students
and mentors provided a diverse opportunity to offer suggestions - Sanaa Alwidian. Modeling Language Evolution for Model
and advice regarding the direction and vision of the student PhD Family Support
ideas. In this document, we summarised the activities and digest
the topics discussed during the Symposium. Session: Discussion Panel
Best and Worst of Doctoral Studies. Antonio Vallecillo,
I. I NTRODUCTION
Dimitris Kolovos, Eugene Syriani, Sahar Kokaly, Shahar
The Doctoral Symposium at the MODELS conference took Maoz.
place at the Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol in Austin on Closing Session
Tuesday, September 19th 2017. The Symposium provided an
international venue for PhD students to interact with academic The Symposium organisers worked hard to provide useful
mentors, other students and MODELS attendees. The Sympo- guidance for completion of the research and also initiation of a
sium brought together PhD students working in areas related research career. The mentors comprising the organising com-
to model-driven engineering applied on different domains. The mittee included the following: Betty Cheng, Michigan State
PhD students had the opportunity to present and to discuss University, USA (who was also our keynote speaker), Silvia
their research goals, techniques and preliminary results within Abraho, Antonio Vallecillo, Sahar Kokaly, Shahar Maoz, and
a constructive and internationally diverse atmosphere. The Eugene Syriani.
Symposium was intended for students who already settled on At the end of the day we continued our academic con-
a specific research proposal with some preliminary results, versations and discussions during an agreeable more informal
but still had enough time remaining before their final defence dinner environment.
so that they could benefit from the Symposium discussions.
However, there was a student in very initial steps who also II. M ENTOR A DVICE
also got benefits from the Symposium and contributed to the During lunch time, a group of PhD students were allocated
Symposium. The event was open to everybody. Every student in a table with at least a couple of mentors to be able to
offered a formal presentation. talk about their research and general advice regarding doctoral
The participating PhD students, along with the titles of their research and career advancement.
presentations and their affiliation were:
III. C ONCLUSION
Session: Requirements and Testing
- Jose Bocanegra. Towards a Model-Driven Approach for The fruitful exchange among mentors and PhD students
Context-Aware Software at the Symposium provided mutual benefit toward address-
- Mohammed Al-Refai. Improving Model-Based Regression ing promising research ideas for future exploration. Among
Test Selection the mentors, it was agreed that there are many future
- Danielle Gaither. Verification of Nonfunctional stars among the student participants and that it will be
Requirements Using Formal Semantics exciting to watch all of their careers unfold. The Doc-
- Alexey Tazin. UML Class Diagram Composition using toral Symposium will be continue as an annual event at
Software Requirements Specifications the MODELS conference to foster students and provid-
ing such mentoring opportunities. Additional information
Session: Distributed Systems about the workshop, including pictures of the activities,
- David Oudart. Model Driven Design of IT Systems for can be found at: http://www.ece.ubc.ca/m̃julia/MODELS17-
Smart Grids DS/call for ds papers.html.
- Anirban Bhattacharjee. MDE-based Automated Provisioning
and Management of Cloud Applications
- Yogesh Barve. Model Driven Techniques for Distributed
Simulations Deployments