Devising the Future of the [email protected] Workshop
Sebastian Götz, Nelly Bencomo, Robert B. France · ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes · 2015
The 9th edition of the workshop [email protected] was held at the 17th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS). The workshop took place in the city of Valencia, Spain, on the 30th of September 2014. The workshop was organised by Sebastian Götz, Nelly Bencomo and Robert France. Despite the high number of concurrent workshops, it was attended by 27 people as it is still one of the most popular workshops in MODELS. The major focus of this year's edition of the workshop was to identify future directions for the workshop, which currently faces a matured community. Hence, in this report we first present a synopsis of the workshop sessions, which included a separate session on introducing the current body of knowledge of [email protected]. Moreover, we show and discuss a survey on new topics of interest we conducted with the workshop participants and program committee. In addition, to further explore the evolution and effects of the workshop and research area [email protected], we have conducted an interview of three young researchers who work in the area of [email protected]. They tell us about how [email protected] has influenced their own research and how they envision the evolution of the topic.