OpenMBEE 2021: OpenMBEE - 2nd International Workshop on Open Model Based Engineering Environments October 11, 2021 |
Conference website | https://openmbee.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/OPENMBEE/pages/81395713/MODELS+2021 |
Submission link | https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=openmbee2021 |
Poster | download |
Submission deadline | July 23, 2021 |
Camera-Ready Deadline | August 28, 2021 |
OpenMBEE - 2nd International Workshop on Open Model Based Engineering Environments
OpenMBEE, the Second International Workshop on Open Model Based Engineering Environment is organized as part of the IEEE/ACM 24th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2021).
OpenMBEE will take place virtually on Oct 10, 2021 from 10:00 to 13:00 EDT aiming at defining the future directions of this area by bringing together world experts for an intense half-day workshop.
- Context
Open Model Based Engineering Environment (OpenMBEE) group is a community of engineering practitioners, software developers, and researchers that share a common vision for a world where engineering modeling relies on a rich open source set of models and software that support engineering modeling and analysis in an integrated environment.
This environment shall enable collaborative modeling at scale and be an open platform for (system) engineering tools. It is also expected to support conventions and practices that will support cultivating a culture of collaborative engineering model development to transform the currently often siloed engineering practice.
Using software development as a guide, we expect engineering modeling will leverage many of those capabilities and practices with additional novelty germane to the world of engineering modeling and analysis. As in most organizations documents are the primary publishing mechanism for engineering work based on models, the environment is expected to enable mutually consistent and corresponding engineering models and documents achieving the single source of authority.
The OpenMBEE community strives to develop capabilities that help organizations better define and manage their MBX (Model Based X) ecosystems. MBX ecosystems consist of the models, tools, processes, and people/roles that come together to develop the systems/products that an organization cares about. The MBEE capabilities and tooling scope for this workshop is not restricted to the currently available items, although it is encouraged to leverage them.
In the OpenMBEE context, SysMLv2 is emerging into the multi-language paradigm together with Project Jupyter as a popular polyglot engineering platform for analytical and computational models.
Similarly, in the Jupyter and Python space there is a desire to see broader modeling capabilities in these general purpose languages. They are envisaged to play a major role in the near future as key enabling technologies for MBx ecosystems.
The goal is to contribute processes, code, apps, services and artifacts that are accessible by OpenMBEE users as well as vendors and partners, and allow them to collaboratively construct and analyze the precision products needed to develop Missions and Systems.
All questions about submissions should be emailed to the organizing committee members.
- Format
OpenMBEE is a half-day workshop held as part of MODELS 2021. The OpenMBEE Workshop aims to share
- experiences of developing and operating Model-Based Engineering Environ-ments (MBEEs)
- how new and existing technologies support MBEEs
- how SysMLv2 emerging into the multi-language paradigm and API standard drives MBEEs
- challenges and requirements of MBEEs
- Human-Centered Design approaches to improve usability and effectiveness of MBEEs
A primary objective of the OpenMBEE workshop is to provide a forum in which researchers, vendors, and practitioners come together and share requirements, needs, pain points, and solutions.
The workshop will be highly interactive to achieve this goal. A significant portion of the workshop’s time is reserved for focused discussions.
Assuming a sufficient number of high-quality submissions are received, OpenMBEE is envisioned to be a workshop consisting of:
- One keynote
- One invited presentation on a topic related to the workshop by suitable speakers from academia or industry.
- “lightning talks” on a topic related to OpenMBEE that will jump-start the discussions
- Scope and Topics
In order to discuss the following topics and those related to them, we would like to invite submissions in the form of regular papers, position/experience papers, and demonstration papers (about novel tool or technology features) related to the following or related topics:
(1) Insightful descriptions of the state-of-the-art in MBEE applications and services
(2) Proposals and descriptions for dealing with relevant challenges such as
- Collaboration/Capture; e.g. Mapping, Deconfliction, Discovery
- Interdisciplinary integration
- Interorganizational federation and decentralization
- Role and view management
- Web-native application, services, collaboration, and versioning, liveness
- Model (library) packaging and dependency management
- Requirements/Design; e.g. Design Modeling, System Specifications and configurations
- Analysis; e.g. simulation, model checking, visualization
- Continuous integration and analysis
- Publication; e.g. Products, Documents
- Document generation, storing analysis artifacts
- Operation; e.g. DevOps, cyber security, access control, multi-tenancy, migration support, interoperability, cloud deployment
- Application domains; e.g., Systems Engineering, Industry 4.0, robotics, cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things, smart cities
- Relevant technological existing or emerging capabilities
- Versioned graphs, model checking services, AI, analytics, data science, cloud computing, projectional editing
- Active repository. Storing arbitrary models as graphs, more specifically trees with cross-references.
- Big Data techniques, e.g., Extract, transform, load (ETL), distributed computing, scalability
- NLP, Insights, ML, knowledge, transformation of unstructured into structured data, heuristics, weave and maintain semantic mappings
- Tool and platform integration
(3) Proposals on how to better leverage relevant standards; e.g., SysMLv2 language and SysMLv2 API, FMI, Conda, OpenAPI, OASIS Static Analysis Results Interchange Format (SARIF), Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC), Open Container Initiative
(4) Proposals and descriptions of integrating existing engineering platforms and open-source resources into a model based environment; e.g., Project Jupyter, engineering documents generation into/by Jupyter
- Submission
The workshop defines an MBEE as a system development environment which facilitates a formalized application of (systems) engineering by leveraging models where engineers can develop their system models for qualification and certification across a portfolio of engineering tools in multiple paradigms. Tools forming the MBEE can come from industry or academia and be freely available, open source, or commercial.
Submissions should fall into one of four categories:
- Research transfer into practice: Describe how practitioners' needs (see ‘ Topics of Interest) drive a research project, how it is developed into a COTS or open-source product, and used in an MBEE for system development.
- Comparisons and evaluations of MBEEs: Describe the MBEE compared or evaluated, criteria and data collection processes used, and results obtained in a novel, insightful way. Models used and data collected should be made publicly available.
- Position papers: Clearly describe a position or opinion on a relevant topic (see ‘Topics of Interest’) in an insightful way. Papers discussing challenges to the development of high-quality MBEEs, supporting documentation, and how they could be mitigated or removed are particularly encouraged.
- Descriptions of MBEEs: Describe (1) which areas of engineering activities the MBEE supports in a given domain and (2) the strengths and weaknesses of the MBEE in the context of the domain.
Submitted papers should belong to one of these paper categories, depending on the nature of the contribution:
- Full papers (up to 10 pages) present novel innovative approaches.
- Short papers (up to 5 pages) present new ideas or early-stage research, extensively discuss the experiences of the researchers with an MPM approach or demonstrate a tool or technology (related to one of the workshop’s topics).
Submissions will be peer reviewed by at least three members of the program committee.
All submissions must be in PDF. The page limit is strict, and it will not be possible to purchase additional pages at any point in the process (including after the paper is accepted).
Submissions must adhere to the IEEE formatting instructions, which can be found at: IEEE - Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings
Submit your papers electronically via EasyChair
There will be joint workshop proceedings in the ACM Digital Library that include papers from all workshops.
- Dates
- Jul 23, 2021 Paper submission deadline
- Aug 21, 2021 Notification to authors
- Aug 28, 2021 Camera-ready deadline