Tracks & Topics

We solicit papers in the following five tracks:

Track 1: Foundations of modeling & method engineering

Chairs: Jolita Ralyté & Janis Stirna

• Definition and representation: conceptual modeling, metamodeling, method knowledge infrastructure, and method ontologies
• Agility in method engineering
• Situational method engineering including evaluation of approaches and experience reports
• Maturity and quality of methods
• Method adaptation, extension and configuration

Track 2: Enterprise, business, process & capability modeling

Chairs: Janis Grabis & Paul Grefen

• Enterprise modeling approaches, architectures, and platforms
• Business models and ecosystems
• Modeling data-driven organizations
• Business process modeling, architectures, and evolution
• Reference modeling
• Capability-driven development

Track 3: Information Systems (IS) & requirements modeling

Chairs: Oscar Pastor & Marcela Ruiz

• Model-Driven development
• Requirements modeling for emerging technologies such as Big Data, AI, IoT, 5G, Blockchain, etc.
• Modeling in agile development
• Crowd-based and collaborative modeling
• Quality and Non-Functional Requirements (NFRs) of models and modeling
• Traceability between software artifacts
• Experience in practice and education

Track 4: Domain-specific & ontology modeling

Chairs: Dimitris Karagiannis & Arnon Sturm

• Metamodel and model engineering
• Design of Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) and supporting tools
• Multi-level and multi-perspective modeling
• Ontology and Domain Specific Analogy
• Practices of/with ontology and Domain Specific Modeling (DSM)
• AI and Domain Specific Modeling (DSM)

Track 5: Evaluation of modeling approaches

Chairs: Agnes Koschmider & Geert Poels

• Empirical evaluation
• Formal evaluation
• Evaluation through practice
• (Re)Design of models or modeling approaches based on evaluation results
• New methods for model or modeling evaluation