Welcome to the First International Workshop on ModelDriven Software Migration (MDSM 2011), March 1, 2011 in Oldenburg, Germany.
Model-driven software development (MDSD) and software migration are two different approaches that had been under research separately. In recent years, researches found interesting analogies between both fields.
In software engineering, one of the key principles is abstraction, that is, focusing only on the important aspects while fading-out details. Model-driven software development (MDSD) aims at modeling these important aspects at different levels of abstraction. This allows to design software starting with the “big picture” (abstract level) and approach more concrete levels by adding details to the models until the system is implemented (concrete level).
Software migration aims at converting an old system (legacy system) into a new technology without changing functionality. This implies understanding, how the legacy system is working. For this purpose, legacy code must be leveraged into a higher level of abstraction in order to focus only on the important aspects.
At this point, model-driven software development and software migration meet. Migration projects can benefit from the vision of MDSD by abstracting legacy systems (reverse engineering), transform them and implement the migrated system (forward engineering).
However, both fields of research are not yet entirely understood. Neither is the combination of both fields examined very well.
MDSM 2011
The MDSM workshop brought together researchers and practitioners in the area of model-driven approaches supporting software migration to present and discuss state-ofthe-art techniques as well as real-world experiences to stimulate further model-driven migration research activities.
The scope of the MDSM workshop included, but was not restricted to, the following topics:
Modeling languages, query languages and transformation languages Domain Specific Languages for software migration
Model-driven architecture reconstruction or migration
Software migration by transforming legacy code
Tools and methods for model-driven migration Design patterns for model-driven software migration
The MDSM workshop was held during the CSMR 2011 main conference on March 1, 2011. The full-day workshop consisted of three thematically grouped sessions: one 90 minutes project session, presenting latest research projects in the field of model-driven software migration two 90 minutes paper sessions containing paper presentations with plenty of time for discussions.
The proceedings contain the papers and project presentations presented at MDSM 2011. For regular papers, we received eight submissions, from which we accepted four papers based on a rigorous reviewing process. Each paper was reviewed by four program committee members. In addition, we invited three projects in the field of model-driven software migration to present their work and to submit a 2 pages summary of their project.
Wilhelm Hasselbring, Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany Andreas Fuhr, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany Volker Riediger, Universität Koblenz-Landau, Germany Andy Schürr, Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany Anthony Cleve, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (INRIA) Lille, France Bernhard Rumpe, Rheinisch-Westfälische Technische Hochschule (RWTH) Aachen, Germany Dragang Gasevic, Athabasca University, Canada Eleni Stroulia, University of Alberta, Canada Filippo Ricca, Università degli Studi di Genova, Italy Harry Sneed, Central European University Budapest, Hungary & Universität Passau, Universität Regensburg, Germany Heinz Züllighoven, Universität Hamburg, Germany
Rocco Oliveto, Università degli Studi di Salerno, Italy Romain Robbes, Universidad de Chile, Chile Steffen Becker, Universität Paderborn, Germany
The organizers would like to thank all who contributed to the workshop. We thank the authors for their submissions and we especially thank the Program Committee and their sub-reviewers for their good work in carefully reviewing and collaboratively discussing the submissions.
Wilhelm Hasselbring Volker Riediger