Towards an Open-Source MDE Tooling
               Infrastructure for the Internet of Things
                                                            (Keynote)
                                                        Juergen Dingel
                                            School of Computing, Queen’s University
                                                   Kingston, Ontario, Canada
                                                 Email: dingel@cs.queensu.ca


  Index Terms—Executable Models; Real-Time Embedded Sys-                                 II. B IOGRAPHY
tems; Cyber-Physical Systems; Internet of Things; UML; UML-
RT; Papyrus-RT
                                                                                                Juergen Dingel joined the Com-
                                                                                             puting faculty of Queen’s University
                          I. A BSTRACT                                                       in the winter of 2000. He received
   Despite significant progress, the efficient construction of                               an M.Sc. in Computer Science from
high-quality software is still challenging. As software con-                                 Berlin University of Technology in
tinues to penetrate more parts of industry, business, and                                    1992, an M.Sc. in Pure and Applied
society, and is entrusted with increasingly complex tasks, these                             Logic in 1994 and a Ph.D. in Com-
challenges will not diminish. With its emphasis on abstraction                               puter Science in 1999 from Carnegie
and automation, Model Driven Engineering (MDE) has the                                       Mellon University. Juergen was PC
proven potential to deal with this complexity.                                               Co-chair of the ACM/IEEE 17th
   In this talk, we summarize our ongoing efforts to build                                   International Conference on Model
comprehensive open source tool support for the use of MDE                                    Driven Engineering Languages and
for the development of real-time embedded systems that are                                   Systems (MODELS’14) and of the
distributed, heterogeneous, and adaptive, and thus possess         IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Dis-
many of the features that Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and         tributed Systems (FMOODS-FORTE’11). He is on the edi-
Internet of Things (IoT) applications are expected to have.        torial boards of the Springer journals Software and Systems
Our starting point are short descriptions of UML-RT, a proven      Modeling (SoSyM), and Software Tools for Technology Trans-
UML2 profile for real-time embedded systems, and Papyrus-          fer (STTT) and currently serves as chair of the MODELS
RT, an open source MDE tool for UML-RT. Then, our work             Steering Committee and as Interim Co-chair of the Research
on extending the capabilities of UML-RT and Papyrus-RT is          and Academia Committee of the Eclipse Papyrus Industrial
discussed.                                                         Consortium. His research has been supported by various
   In particular, we show how UML-RT models can be                 sources including IBM, GM, Ericsson, the Natural Science and
   1) connected with external tools and components for the         Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC), the Ontario Centres
       purposes of quality assurance (e.g., monitoring, an-        of Excellence (OCE), the Ontario Ministry of Research, In-
       imation, simulation), adaptation (e.g., steering), and      novation, and Science, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
       construction of loosely coupled, heterogeneous systems      (DFG), and the German Academic Exchange Service. At
       (e.g., via IoT’s MQTT protocol),                            Queen’s, he has served as the Chair of Undergraduate Studies
   2) debugged on the model-level in a platform-independent        (2015-2017) in the School of Computing where he also leads
       fashion, and                                                the Modeling and Analysis in Software Engineering Group
   3) modified at runtime.                                         (MASE).
   Next steps and open problems are sketched.