ME 2012 - International Workshop on Models and Evolution

This workshop addresses the evolution of artefacts of the modelling process, as inspired by analogous evolution required by software artefacts, with input from academic as well as industrial practice. As Model-Based Development grows in popularity, the models used throughout a system's lifecycle are now core artefacts of modern software engineering processes. By raising the level of abstraction and using concepts closer to the problem and application domain (rather than the solution and technical domain), models become core assets and reusable intellectual property. Thus it is worth the effort to maintain and evolve these models, which brings to bear many of the same issues related to traditional software artefacts. In other words, these models are subject to many kinds of changes, which range from rapidly evolving platforms to the evolution of the functionality provided by the systems for which they were developed. These modifications include changes at all levels, from requirements through architecture and design, to executable models, documentation and test suites. They typically affect various kinds of models including data models, behavioural models, domain models, source code models, goal models, etc. Managing the changes that accompany the evolution of models is therefore essential to model-based Software Engineering as a discipline.