Data4MDE 2020 - 1st International Workshop on Data for MDE

Data is a precious resource and is the most important part of all applications like Data Analytics, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence. Without qualitative data, there is no training phase and all the modern research will go in vain. In Model-Driven Engineering (MDE), like any discipline, data are crucial to perform any research activity. The researcher spends time and effort to create a suitable corpus of objects to answer specific research questions.
The need for data is the mission that Data4MDE aims to solve. In particular, we are looking for papers that describe how the data are collected, how the dataset can be reused in other research, and how interested researchers can contribute to maintain and improve the dataset. The purpose of Data4MDE is to provide a forum with the aim to share and discuss the datasets for MDE. A well-defined corpus of data enables many research activities: reproducible experiments, adoption of learning-based approaches, analytics, model analysis and testing.
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The workshop aims to attract and offer a space for different kinds of datasets around MDE research. MDE Data Showcase papers should describe datasets that are curated by their authors and made available to use by others. In our envision, we are searching for datasets that should be of value to others in the community. The context where the dataset has been used, the sources and the methodology are key aspects to foster their reuse. We are looking for papers that even describe the data in terms of structures, API, supporting tools, and schema. It may help other researchers to enlarge and refine the dataset. Themes that are of particular interest to Data4MDE also include: i) the description of the originality of the data set, ii) privacy, licenses, and ethical aspects, iii) an aggregated and statistical view of the data, iv) the identified issues and limitation in creating the data collection, and v) manual activities and human added knowledge and reasoning. We are looking for any possible datasets consisting of the MDE artifacts, for instance:
collection of models and modelling language definitions, in any syntax and semantics,
model transformations,
collected answers from research questionnaires,
model-based logging manipulation,
model workbenches,
operational-based models,
Big-Models,
model refactoring collections,
modeling notations for describing the dataset,
supporting tools to query, search and filter the data,
concrete examples of modeling artifact evolution, and
metric reports.
The Data4MDE would be looking mainly for papers describing datasets of MDE artifacts, which should be made freely available by the authors.