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ModComp 2017: 4th International Workshop on
Interplay of Model-Driven and Component-Based
Software Engineering
Federico Ciccozzi∗ , Ivano Malavolta†
∗ Mälardalen University – IDT, Västerås (Sweden)
federico.ciccozzi@mdh.se
† Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
i.malavolta@vu.nl
Abstract—Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) and Component- systems needs to bring component-based principles at the level
Based Software Engineering (CBSE) have been proven to ef- of the software model landscape hence supporting, e.g., the
fectively reduce software development complexity by (i) shifting specification of model interdependencies, and their retrieval,
the focus from source code to models and (ii) breaking down
the set of desired features and their intricacy into smaller sub- as well as enabling interoperability between the different
modules, respectively. Moreover, the interplay of MDE and CBSE notations used for specifying the software. On the other hand,
approaches is gaining recognition as a very promising means to MDE techniques must become part of the CBSE process to
boost the development of software systems by reducing costs enable the effective reuse of third-party software entities and
and risks and shorten time-to-market. While several attempts their integration as well as, generally, to boost automation in
to effectively combine MDE and CBSE have been documented,
there are still unsolved clashes raising when exploiting interplay the development process.
of MDE and CBSE, mostly due to mismatches in the related
terminology as well as to differences in their basic essence.
The goal of ModComp is to gather researchers and practition- An effective interplay of CBSE and MDE approaches could
ers to share opinions, propose solutions to open challenges and help in handling the intricacy of modern software systems
generally explore the frontiers of interweaving between MDE and and thus reducing costs and risks by: (i) enabling efficient
CBSE. modelling and analysis of extra-functional properties, (ii)
Index Terms—Model-driven engineering, component-based improving reusability through the definition and implemen-
software engineering, MDE, CBSE, interplay, workshop, MOD-
ELS. tation of components loosely coupled into assemblies, (iii)
providing automation where applicable (and favourable) in the
I. A BOUT M OD C OMP development process. In the last fifteen years, such a cooper-
ation has been recognized as extremely promising; tools and
The design of modern software systems requires support
frameworks have been developed for supporting this kind of
capable of properly dealing with their ever-increasing com-
integrated development process. In the last few, the application
plexity. In order to account for such a complexity, the whole
of MDE and CBSE to tackle great challenges related to high
software engineering process needs to be rethought and, in
heterogeneity and variability of complex systems, like the
particular, the traditional division among development phases
Internet-of-Things, has been recognised too [3]. Nevertheless,
to be revisited, hence moving some activities from design
when exploiting interplay of MDE and CBSE, clashes arise
time to deployment and runtime. Model-Driven Engineer-
due to misalignments in the related terminology but also, and
ing (MDE) [1] and Component-Based Software Engineering
more importantly, due to differences in some of their basic
(CBSE) [2] can be considered as two orthogonal ways of
assumptions and focal points.
reducing development complexity: the former shifts the focus
of application development from source code to models in
order to bring system reasoning closer to domain-specific The goal of the workshop on Interplay of Model-Driven and
concepts; the latter aims to organize software into encapsulated Component-Based Software Engineering 2017 (ModComp’17)
independent components with well-defined interfaces, from was to gather researchers and practitioners to share opinions,
which complex applications can be built and incrementally propose solutions to open challenges, and generally explore
enhanced. the frontiers of collaboration between MDE and CBSE.
When exploiting these development approaches, numerous ModComp’17 aimed at attracting contributions related to the
different modelling notations and consequently several soft- subject at different levels, from modelling to analysis, from
ware models are involved during the software life cycle. On componentization to composition, from consistency to version-
the one hand, effectively dealing with all the involved models ing; foundational contributions as well as concrete application
and heterogeneous modelling notations that describe software experiments were sought.
II. S UMMARY discussions is the need and importance of a more focused
The workshop was co-located with the ACM/IEEE 20th research effort in the interplay of MDE and CBSE. For
International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Lan- this reason, we are already planning for the next edition of
guages & Systems (MODELS), and represented an active ModComp, which we hope to be able to propose once again
forum for practitioners and researchers. We received eight full at MODELS.
submissions, out of which the following six were selected for ACKNOWLEDGMENT
inclusion in the workshop’s program and proceedings:
The organization of the ModComp workshop is par-
– Model-based Design of Reusable Secure Connectors. tially supported by the Knowledge Foundation through
Authors: Michael Shin, Hassan Gomaa and Don Pathirage the MOMENTUM project (http://www.es.mdh.se/projects/
– A Classification of Dynamic Reconfiguration in Compo- 458-MOMENTUM). We would like to thank the authors and
nent and Connector Architecture Description Languages. the program committee for their hard and precious work
Authors: Arvid Butting, Robert Heim, Oliver Kautz, Jan before, during, and after the workshop.
Oliver Ringert, Bernhard Rumpe and Andreas Wortmann
– Model-driven Development of Adaptive IoT Systems. R EFERENCES
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In addition to paper presentations, we hosted two invited
talks to get insights from both academic and industrial per-
spectives:
– CBSD through MDE vs MDE through CBSD: two dif-
ferent stories, an academic perspective on the interplay of
MDE and CBSE given by Antonio Cicchetti, Associate
Professor at Mälardalen University (Sweden)
– Various avataar of component concept and MDE – a prac-
titioner’s perspective, given by Vinay Vasant Kulkarni,
Chief Scientist and Head of Software Systems Research
at Tata Consultancy Services (India)
The accepted papers and invited talks covered many dif-
ferent forms of intertwining of MDE and CBSE, including:
design of secure reusable connectors, dynamic reconfiguration
of components with MDE, MDE of adaptive component-
based IoT systems, verification of extra-functional properties
of components through MDE, different flavours of the concept
of component in industrial MDE, MDE through CBSE and
vice versa from a research perspective.
This was the fourth edition of the workshop and the very
good received attention (between 20 and 30 participants)
demonstrates that the topics discussed in the workshop are
relevant both in practice and in theory.
III. O UTLOOK
We are planning to organise another theme issue on Mod-
Comp topics at an international journal in the software en-
gineering field, as we did for ModComp 2015 [4]. One of
the clear messages that arose during paper presentations and