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Preface

Making a city ”smart” is an emerging strategy to mitigate the problems
generated by the urban population growth and rapid urbanization. Each
city models the technological, organizational and policy aspects of that
city, and for this reason a smart city is an interplay among technologi-
cal, organizational and policy innovation. The complexity of interactions
not only in hardware and software involved, but also in the actors and pro-
cesses interplay, makes the availability of systematic design processes a must.
Model Driven Engineering (MDE) improves coordination between the var-
ious stakeholders, resulting in the qualitative production of software and
other artifacts involved. MDE has been successfully used in businesses with
a need for complex and error-proof software, such as companies operating in
the high tech industry. Integrating MDE approaches in Smart City design
processes may lead to more robust solutions.
    The purpose of the 1st International Workshop on Modeling Smart Cities
has been to establish a forum to share and discuss how MDE can be suc-
cessfully applied to Smart City projects and which benefits and, at the same
time, challenges can be expected. The workshop aimed to attract and of-
fer a space for different kinds of research around the topic also attracting
people from the Smart City community, not only industry but also public
administrations.
    This first edition has been originally accepted as a half-day event of the
Federated Conference on Software Technologies: Applications and Founda-
tions (STAF), scheduled in June, 2020 in Bergen, Norway. Due to COVID-
19, the workshop has run virtually co-located with the MDE4IoT workshop
on June 22 2020. We thank the organizers of the MDE4IoT workshop for
this opportunity and for the interesting discussions.
    One contribution was accepted after a rigorous review process, address-
ing several challenges in the Smart City domain with MDE. The workshop’s
program consisted of the accepted paper’s presentation and of a keynote
given by Saverio Romeo, Lead Expert for the development of digital trans-
formation strategies, nominated by the EU committee.
    We would like to thank the STAF 2020 organization for giving us the
opportunity to organize this workshop, especially to the workshop chairs
Loli Burgueno (Open University of Catalonia, Spain) and Lars Michael Kris-
tensen (Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway), who were
always very helpful and supportive. Many thanks to all those that submitted
papers, and particularly to the presenters of the accepted papers. We also

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warmly thank Saverio Romeo for giving a very inspiring keynote talk and
the many participants who contributed to the open discussions with their
comments and experience. Last but not least, our thanks go to the reviewers
and the members of the Program Committee, for their timely and accurate
reviews and for their help in choosing and suggestions for improving the
selected papers.

July 2020                                                Ludovico Iovino
                                                         Manuel Wimmer
                                                          Juri Di Rocco
Program Committee

   Antonio Bucchiarone    FBK-IRST, Italy
   Amleto Di Salle        University of L’Aqula, Italy
   Luca Berardinelli      JKU Linz, Austria
   Benoit Combemale       University of Toulouse & Inria, France
   Romina Spalazzese      Malm University, Sweden
   Saverio Romeo          Birkbeck University, UK
   Esther Guerra          Universidad Autnoma de Madrid, Spain
   Leonardo Mariani       University of Milano Bicocca, Italy
   Federico Ciccozzi      Mlardalen University, Sweden
   Francesco Basciani     University of L’Aquila, Italy
   Maria Teresa Rossi     Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy
   Martina De Sanctis     Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy
   Patrizio Pelliccione   University of L’Aquila, Italy
   Romina Eramo           University of L’Aquila, Italy
   Adrian Rutle           Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, Norway
   Henry Muccini          University of L’Aquila, Italy
   Hans Vangheluwe        University of Antwerp, Belgium & McGill University, Canada

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