First International Workshop on Model-Based Software and Data Integration
Scope of the Workshop
Integration of data from heterogeneous distributed sources, and at the same time, integration of software components and systems, in order to achieve full interoperability is one of the major challenges and research areas in software industry today. It also is the major IT cost driving factor: It is estimated by various sources that more than 80% of the overall IT budget is spent on solving integration problems today.
During the past years, the relevance of "model based" approaches to these extremely time and money consuming integration tasks have come into special focus of software engineering methods. OMG's keywording "Model Driven Architecture MDA" has brought model based approaches into wide observation of software industry and science. On the other hand, a strong community centred around the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) paradigm has covered significant grounds in defining interoperability standards in the area of communication, discovery, description and binding.
The two communities have remained largely isolated, resulting in MDA concepts not being broadly applied to system integration. Our workshop, in the context of a German Regional initiative of collaborative development of methodologies and tools for "Model-Based Software and Data Integration", a joint effort of software SMEs and science under the acronym BIZYCLE, directly addresses this context, trying to introduce a strict model-based design, verification, development and evolution methodology to system integration concepts such as SOA.
Contributions with a strong theoretical and technical background, as well as contributions focusing on domain knowledge and practical / industrial experience, are both welcome. Particularly, software and data integration solutions in the context of health care, facility management, logistics and publishing are welcome, as they coincide with the focus domains of our research initiative. However, this does not exclude quality contributions describing solutions from other application domains, like e.g. automotive or avionics.
Topics
Suitable topics include (but are not limited to) the areas listed below:
- Models and Metamodels in Software Engineering
- Metamodel Layers:CIM, PIM, PSM
- Component Models and Software Architecture
- Software Interoperability: Middleware Platforms, Standards & Runtime Environments
- Integration of Software Components & Systems
- Data & Information Integration (Matching, Federation, Semantic Integration, ...)
- Formal modelling of Software Components
- Modelling and Characterizing Heterogeneous Component Interfaces
- Software, Component and Service Composability
- Service Oriented Architecture: Concepts for Systems Integration
- SLA, Negotiation, Orchestration
- Component and Service Interaction Patterns
- Software Evolution
- Model-Based Migration
- Metadata and Service Repositories
- Domain Ontologies in Integration Scenarios
- Business Processes and Software Integration in Concrete Applications
- Cross-Enterprise Business Integration/ Collaboration
- Integrated Domain Applications, as e.g. in the domains of health care, facility management, logistics and publishing
