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6th International Workshop on the
Globalization of Modeling Languages (GEMOC)
Preface
Erwan Bousse Benoit Combemale Jeff Gray
TU Wien University of Toulouse & Inria University of Alabama
Vienna, Austria Toulouse, France Tuscaloosa, AL, USA
erwan.bousse@tuwien.ac.at benoit.combemale@irit.fr gray@cs.ua.edu
ABSTRACT USA. This edition helps to gather the state-of-the-art and practice
To cope with complexity, modern software-intensive systems are recently initiated. It also strengthens the community that broadens
often split in different concerns to serve the needs of diverse stake- the current domain-specific modeling language (DSML) research
holders. These concerns are often associated with specialized de- focus beyond the development of independent DSMLs to a research
scription languages and technologies, which are based on concern- focus that provides support for globalized DSMLs.
specific problems and solution concepts. Developers thus face the GEMOC 2018 is supported by the GEMOC initiative and its as-
challenging task of integrating the different languages and associ- sociated Eclipse Research Consortium, which promotes research
ated technologies used to produce software artifacts in the different seeking to develop the necessary breakthroughs in software lan-
concern spaces. The workshop GEMOC 2018 is a full-day workshop guages to support global software engineering, i.e., breakthroughs
bringing together researchers and practitioners in the modeling lan- that lead to effective technologies supporting different forms of
guage community to discuss the challenges associated with integrat- language integration, including language collaboration, interoper-
ing multiple, heterogeneous modeling languages. The workshop ability and composability.
interests include techniques, frameworks, and environments
to facilitate the creation, integration, and automated process- 2 FORMAT
ing of heterogeneous modeling languages. Languages of interest The format reflects the goals of the workshop: constructive feedback
range from requirements, to design and runtime languages, and on accepted papers about the conjoint use of different modeling
include both general-purpose and domain-specific languages. Chal- languages, collaborations, and community building. The format of
lenges related to engineering composable languages, well-formed the workshop is that of a working meeting. Hence, there is less focus
semantic composition of languages and reasoning about systems on presentations and more focus on producing and documenting
described using heterogeneous languages are of particular interest. a research content that identifies challenges, different forms of
Following the five previous editions, the objective is to continue language integration, and relates existing solutions.
expanding a community focused on problems arising from the glob- The workshop starts with a keynote, followed by two sessions
alization of modeling languages; i.e., the use of multiple DSLs to about short presentations of the accepted papers. A significant
support coordinated development of diverse aspects of a system. amount of time will be reserved for discussing each paper and their
relations to each other. The last session is devoted to a working
1 CONTEXT AND MOTIVATION session dedicated to open discussions of the presented contributions
and other topics suggested by the participants.
Software intensive systems are becoming more complex, driven by
the need to integrate across multiple concerns. Consequently, the
development of such systems requires the integration of different 3 TOPICS
concerns and skills. These concerns are usually covered by different The topics of interest for GEMOC 2018 include tools and meth-
languages, with specific concepts, technologies and abstraction lev- ods for engineering modeling languages, composability and inter-
els. This multiplication of languages eases the development related operability of heterogeneous modeling languages, language inte-
to one specific concern, but raises language and technology inte- gration challenges (from requirement to design) for analysis and
gration problems at the different stages of the software life cycle. simulation, model and metamodel composition, language interface
In order to reason about the global system, it becomes necessary and viewpoint, heterogeneous modeling and simulation, language-
to describe explicitly the different kinds of relationships that exist based socio-technical coordination, and multi-language or multi-
between the different languages used in the development of a com- disciplinary environment.
plex system. To support effective language integration, there is a The workshop fosters discussions related to practical and in-
pressing need to reify and classify these relationships, as well as dustrial experience related to the use of heterogeneous modeling
the language interactions that the relationships enable. languages, particularly in the following application domains: Cyber-
The 2018 edition of the GEMOC workshop is a follow-up of Physical Systems, System of Systems, Internet of Services, Internet
the successful previous five editions: GEMOC at MODELS 2013 in of Things, Complex Adaptive Systems, Smart City, Smart Building,
Miami, USA, GEMOC at MODELS 2014 in Valencia, Spain, GEMOC Home automation, Smart Grids, management of renewable and
at MODELS 2015 in Ottawa, Canada, GEMOC at MODELS 2016 in intermittent energy sources, Industry 4.0 and the smart factory of
Saint-Malo, France, and GEMOC at MODELS 2017 in Austin, TX, the future.
MODELS’18, October 2018, Copenhagen, Denmark Erwan Bousse, Benoit Combemale, and Jeff Gray
4 PROGRAM
GEMOC 2018 (cf. http://gemoc.org/events/gemoc2018.html) gathers
practitioners and researchers together to exchanges case studies,
solutions and challenges related to the globalization of the modeling
languages.
This edition of the workshop features a keynote entitled “Model
Driven Software Engineering creates tomorrow’s legacy”, given
by Prof. Mark van den Brand from TU Eindhoven (NL). In his
keynote, Prof. van den Brand raises the importance of Domain-
Specific Languages and their current use in industry, and focuses
on the challenge of co-evolving existing languages and conforming
models as the knowledge on a given domain evolves.
The following two sessions are dedicated to the presentations of
the accepted papers, including the paper “Model Consistency en-
sured by Metamodel Integration” by Johannes Meier and Andreas
Winter; “A Common Integrated Framework for Heterogeneous
Modeling Services” by Anastasia Mavridou, Tamas Kecskes, Qishen
Zhang and Janos Sztipanovits; “Tool-Support of Socio-Technical
Coordination in the Context of Heterogeneous Modeling” by Fran-
cis Bordeleau, Benoit Combemale, Romina Eramo, Mark van den
Brand and Manuel Wimmer; “CPS simulation models categories in
Extended Enterprises” by Renan Leroux, Marc Pantel, Ileana Ober
and Jean-Michel Bruel; and “Adding a Henshin Engine to GEMOC
Studio: An experience report” by Steffen Zschaler.
Finally, the workshop will end with a dedicated session for dis-
cussions about the presented contributions, the coming challenges,
and possible future collaborations.
We hope you will enjoy the following proceedings, and feel free
to join the GEMOC initiative at http://gemoc.org!
The GEMOC’18 Organizers,