Workshop on MOdel Driven Development for Middleware (MODDM)

Topics of Interest | Important Dates | Paper Submission | Committees | CFP (PDF and TXT)

Middleware refers to a broad class of software infrastructure technologies that use abstractions to simplify construction of distributed systems. While middleware has been widely used for developing distributed applications, and to solve many significant problems, its development and use is by no means straightforward. Model Driven Development (MDD) aims to raise the level of abstraction for software development by advocating the use of models as the key artefacts in software development, from system specification and analysis, to design and testing. The rapidly maturing MDA/UML tools and Microsoft’s software factory initiative and the Domain Specific Language (DSL) support state-of-the-art engineering practices in MDD.

MDD provides concepts and approaches for capturing and reusing knowledge in deployment platforms such as middleware. MDD therefore has played an important role in middleware domain, e.g.:

Hiding modern middleware complexity in model-to-model and model-to-code transformation mechanisms is essential in improving productivity and quality of middleware application development
Patterns, best practices and domain expertise in middleware development are captured through abstract models and reusable code generation “cartridges” using MDD
Analytical models for middleware and middleware applications are useful in analyzing and predicting application characteristics. These models are often derived from design models using MDD.
Domain specific modeling using MDD is useful in building middleware-based applications tailored towards a specific domain.
Modern IDEs integrate middleware platform specific development with application business logic and make the business logic layer portable through MDD.

Topics of Interest

This workshop will bring together academic researchers, MDD tool builders and MDD practitioners, especially those targeting middleware platforms such as J2EE/.Net/CORBA/Web Services, WS-* frameworks, Enterprise Service Bus (ESB), Message bus, Web Service Management (WSM) platforms, workflow infrastructure, and EAI frameworks. The topics of the workshop will include but are not limited to:

Methods and tools for application modeling, model transformation and code generation in the context of middleware platforms
Analytical models for middleware platforms and applications to study and predict their quality characteristics
Approaches for variability modeling and middleware product lines
Best modeling practices for middleware and cross-cutting concerns; aspect oriented modeling
Approaches for modeling component and service middleware
Middleware profiles for general-purpose modeling languages and domain-specific modeling languages. Comparisons of different approaches.
Model driven testing for middleware platforms
Model driven frameworks for quality attributes
Model integration between middleware models and other models
Platform monitoring, auditing, exception managements, measurement models for middleware
Experience reports

Paper Submission and Publication

All contributions will be peer reviewed and evaluated based on originality, technical quality and relevance to the workshop theme. Papers must be no longer than six pages and follow the ACM SIG Proceedings Format. Papers should be submitted through our submission system. The workshop proceedings will be published on the ACM digital library. Authors of accepted papers must register for the workshop.

Organizing Committee

Ian Gorton, ian.gorton@pnl.gov , Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA

Liming Zhu, Liming.Zhu@nicta.com.au , Empirical Software Engineering, National ICT Australia

Yan Liu, Jenny.Liu@nicta.com.au , Empirical Software Engineering, National ICT Australia

Shiping Chen, Shiping.Chen@csiro.au , Network Laboratory, CSIRO ICT Centre, Australia

Program Committee

Paul Brebner (CSIRO, Australia)

Aniruddha Gokhale (Vanderbilt University, USA)

Jeff Gray (University of Alabama at Birmingham , USA)

Jack Greenfield (Microsoft, USA)

John Grundy (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Lars Grunske (University of Queensland, Australia)

John Hosking (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Arno Jacobsen (University of Toronto, Canada)

Soon-Kyeong Kim (University of Queensland, Australia)

David Levy (University of Sydney, Australia)

Andrey Nechypurenko (Siemens Corporate Technology, Germany)

Kerry Raymond (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)

Douglas C. Schmidt (Vanderbilt University, USA)

Bruce Trask (PrismTech, USA)

Yanzhang Wang (Dalian University of Technology, China)

Ian Warren (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Gerald Weber (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Workshop on MOdel Driven Development for Middleware (MODDM)

ACM/IFIP/USENIX 7th International Middleware Conference