EESSMOD 2012 - International Workshop on Experiences and Empirical Studies in Software Modelling

Most software development projects apply modeling in some stages of development and to various degrees in order to take advantage of the many and varied benefits of it. Modeling is, for example, applied for facilitating communication by hiding technical details, analyzing a system from different perspectives, specifying its structure and behaviour in an understandable way, or even for enabling simulations and generating test cases in a mode-driven engineering approach. Thus, the evaluation of modeling techniques, languages and tools is needed in order to assess their advantages and disadvantages, to ensure their applicability to different contexts, their ease of use, and other issues such as skills and costs; either isolated or in comparison with other methods.

This workshop aims to bring together professionals and researchers interested in software modeling to discuss in which way software modeling techniques may be evaluated, share experiences of performing such evaluations and discuss ideas for further research in this area. The workshop accepts both experience reports of applying software modeling in industry and research papers that describe more rigorous empirical studies performed in industry or academia.