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==Preface to the 2nd International Workshop on Model Driven Engineering Tools (MDETools 2018)==
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Preface
The second Workshop on Model Driven Engineering Tools1 (MDETools’18) was
held on October 15, 2018 in Copenhagen, Denmark, in collaboration with the
ACM/IEEE 21st International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Lan-
guages and Systems2 (MODELS’18). The high-level goal of the MDETools work-
shop is to support the effective development, maintenance, dissemination, and
use of high-quality MDE tools and supporting material. To this end, the work-
shop has the following objectives:

 – Facilitate the determination of the state-of-the-art in MDE tools through
   comparative evaluations of existing tools by identifying comparison criteria,
   use cases, and evaluation procedures,
 – discuss strengths, weaknesses of tools, together with opportunities for im-
   provements, reuse, and “cross-fertilization”,
 – identify relevant industrial trends, opportunities and challenges and how
   they can be leveraged or dealt with, and
 – collect best practices for the development, distribution, and maintenance of
   MDE tools and any supporting material.

Challenge problem
To facilitate the comparison of tools the workshop again featured a challenge
problem submission category. This year, the challenge problem was given in
form of a simulation environment in Unity 3D3 one of the leading 3D game and
animation development tools. In the environment, a rover (modeled after NASA’s
Mars Exploration Rovers) drives a random path. The challenge was to use an
MDE tool to develop the software necessary to allow a second rover to follow
the first while staying at a safe distance. No constraints were put on either the
tool used or the language that any of the development artifacts were expressed
in. Communication with the simulation (to, e.g., obtain position information
of both rovers or issue commands to the second rover) was realized via TCP
sockets.

Program
The workshop received a total of twelve submissions — five in the research
category and seven in the challenge problem category. The workshop program
included a keynote presentation, presentations of four research papers, presen-
tations of six submissions to the challenge problem and a panel discussion. The
keynote entitled “Developing a Modeling Tool Someone Wants to Use: Chal-
lenges, trends and solutions for how to develop modeling tools that people actu-
ally can and want to use” was given by Mattias Mohlin from HCL Technologies,
1
  https://mdetools.github.io/mdetools18
2
  http://www.modelsconference.org
3
  https://unity3d.com
Sweden. Mattias has been involved with the development and industrial use of
modelling tools for over 20 years.


Acknowledgements

We thank Mattias Mohlin for his contributions to the success of the workshop
and for sharing his expertise. We also gratefully acknowledge the work of Michal
Pasternak on the implementation of the Unity simulation used for the challenge
problem; Michal also provided user support. Finally, we thank the MODELS’18
Workshop Chairs, Regina Hebig and Thorsten Berger, for their support and the
MDETools’18 Program Committee for their invaluable reviewing work.


The MDETools’18 Co-Organizers
Mojtaba Bagherzadeh (Queen’s University, Canada)
Francis Bordeleau (Ecole de Technologie Superieure and Cmind, Canada)
Juergen Dingel (Queen’s University, Canada)
Michalis Famelis (University of Montreal, Canada)
Antonio Garcia-Dominguez (Aston University, UK)
Raquel Araujo de Oliveira (Universite Toulouse III, France)
Ernesto Posse (Gatineau, Canada)
Ed Seidewitz (Model Driven Solutions, USA)
Bran Selic (Malina Software Corporation, Canada)

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