EESSMOD 2013 - International Workshop on Experiences and Empirical Studies in Software Modelling

Software development projects apply modelling in different stages of development and to various degrees in order to take advantage of the many and varied benefits of it. The evaluation of modelling 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 modelling to discuss in which way software modelling 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 modelling in industry and research papers that describe more rigorous empirical studies performed in industry or academia.
Objectives of this workshop include:
Encourage empirical studies in software modelling
Building a better understanding of the industrial use of modelling techniques, languages and tools
Building theories about the effectiveness of modelling approaches
Facilitate and encourage joint research and experimentation in software modelling
Identify directions for future research