DevOps@Models20: DevOps at Models 2020 Models 2020 Workshop Montréal, Canada, October 18-23, 2020 |
Conference website | https://ace-design.github.io/devops-at-models/ |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=devopsmodels20 |
In the last decade, DevOps has emerged as a prominent approach to increase productivity and system quality in the software industry. It focuses on optimizing the flow of activities involved in the creation of end-user value, from idea to deployed functionality and operating systems. It leverages different software development paradigms and techniques such as continuous integration and deployment/delivery, runtime monitoring, analytics, automated testing, and self-adaptiveness. However, in spite of its popularity, many elements of existing DevOps processes remain manual and DevOps still lacks proper engineering frameworks to support continuous improvement. Classically, many aspects of DevOps are still implemented in a handmade way by DevOps engineers, and there is no formal support to validate the defined environment, even if they are critical in the product life-cycle.
Model-based engineering (MDE) aims at increasing productivity and systems quality through the use of models that are understandable and actionable. It enables the use of analysis and generation techniques to automate different parts of the development process. The MDE approach relies on pillars such as dedicated language definition, formal model reasoning or code generation.
Submission Guidelines
All papers must be original and not simultaneously submitted to another journal or conference.
The following paper categories are welcome:
- Work in progress (5-10 pages) papers addressing relevant experience reports, challenges, trends, and opportunities are particularly encouraged
- Extended Abstracts (up to 2 pages): Participants are encouraged to provide a short abstract where they state their interests and potential contributions to the workshop. They can also propose research challenges related to the theme. Industrial contributions are particularly welcomed in this category.
The work-in-progress papers will be included in the proceedings.
List of Topics
- MDE & DevOps at the era of data:
- How can modelling approaches support the integration of data in a DevOps approach (e.g., digital twins)?
- Can modelling help the design of scalable (in terms of data) DevOps approaches?
- How can models contribute to the integration of new data sources in an open-data context?
- Modelling for DevOps:
- Modelling can easily be linked to “dev”, what is its relationship to “ops”?
- What aspects of DevOps can modelling contribute to?
- What is the role of modelling in DevOps?
- What concrete solution (e.g., method, process, tool) can modelling brings to DevOps?
- What kind of analysis or reasoning techniques are needed by the DevOps approach?
- How can modelling help to improve DevOps best practices?
- DevOps for Modelling:
- How to monitor a model-driven software in an “ops” context?
- How can DevOps help in achieving a kind of continuous model-driven engineering process?
- Are classical MDE tools and techniques ready for DevOps? Can we combine these tools with existing ones?
- How can DevOps be used to ease the adoption of MDE tools and techniques?
- What are the requirements for a model-driven tool to be DevOps compatible?
- What would be the benefits of considering model-driven development in a DevOps way?
Committees
Organizing committee
- Francis Bordeleau (École de Technologie Supérieure - ETS, Montréal, Canada)
- Jean-Michel Bruel (Université de Toulouse, Toulouse, France)
- Juergen Dingel (Queen's University, Kingston, Canada)
- Sébastien Mosser (Université du Québec à Montréal - UQAM, Canada)
Publication
Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. All accepted workshop papers will be published by ACM and will be indexed by DBLP. Submissions must adhere to the ACM formatting instructions, which can be found at: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template
Submit your papers electronically via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=devopsmodels20
Venue
The conference will be held in Montréal, Canada, as a workshop of the MODELS 2020 conference. Please note that MODELS 2020 will accommodate remote participation and presentation for those who will not be able to attend the conference physically. Furthermore, ACM has confirmed that all accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference, whether the authors present their paper physically or remotely.
Contact
All questions about submissions should be emailed to the organizers (see https://ace-design.github.io/devops-at-models/)