WorkshopsMODELS 2025

About

Following the tradition of previous conferences, MODELS 2025 will host a number of workshops during the three days before the main conference. The workshops will provide a collaborative forum for a group of typically 15 to 30 participants to exchange recent and/or preliminary results, conduct intensive discussions on a particular topic, or coordinate efforts between representatives of a technical community.

Workshops are intended as a forum for lively discussions of innovative ideas, recent progress, or practical experience on model-driven engineering for specific aspects, specific problems, or domain-specific needs. Each workshop should provide a balanced distribution of its time for both presentations of papers (favoring the attendance of young researchers) and discussions. The duration of these workshops is generally one day, but we encourage the submission of half-day workshop proposals on focused topics as well.

Submission Process

Submit your workshop proposal electronically in PDF using the MODELS EasyChair submission site.

Please adhere to the proposal guidelines, providing every requested detail about the proposed workshop, using at most five pages. Please include a one-page draft of your planned Call for Papers in the proposal (not included in the five-page limit). In order to ensure proper coordination with the deadlines of the main conference, the deadlines specified in Important Dates below must be respected by your plan for the workshop.

An Overleaf template with the suggested structure is available here (This is a read-only link; to work with it, you need to make a copy.)

Proceedings

As in previous years, joint workshop proceedings will be published by IEEE, including papers from all workshops. Each workshop’s joint proceedings will include: An opening message from the organizers, including, if applicable, the workshop program committee, and all peer-reviewed papers presented in the workshop.

Submissions must adhere to the IEEE formatting instructions. Papers should have at least 5 pages. We propose page limits of 5 pages for short papers and 10 pages for full papers, following the same style and format as the main conference tracks.

Contact

For any information, please contact the workshop co-chairs.

Here are the guidelines regarding the information you must include in your proposal and how the proposal document needs to be structured.

1. Workshop Title

• Organizers and primary contact (name / affiliation / email)
• Abstract

2. Motivation

• Objectives
• Intended audience
• Topics of interest
• Relevance (in particular to the MODELS community)
• Context (any past events related to your workshop including related conferences, previous workshops, previous sessions, and previous experience of the current organizers)
• Need (comments in favor of your application; if your workshop was at MODELS’24 or any of the former conferences, why is it useful to run it again?)

3. Organization

• Details on the organizers
• Workshop program committee (indicated as finalized or expected)
• Would you be willing to merge your workshop with other workshops on a similar topic if this were a condition for hosting your workshop at MODELS?

4. Workshop Format

• Planned deadlines
  • Workshops are expected to adhere to the timing provided by the main conference by default.
• Intended paper format
  • For short papers, the limit is five (5) pages, without counting the CfP proposed (in case you submit the CfP).
  • For full papers, the limit is ten (10) pages.
• Evaluation process
• Intended publication of accepted papers (printed proceedings or website)
• Intended workshop format (including duration, number of presentations, and planned keynotes)
• How many participants do you expect (please make at least an educated guess)?
• What kind of equipment do you need (e.g., data projector, computer, whiteboard)?

5. Additional Material

• Workshop web page (URL of the draft web page, if one exists)
• The Overleaf template is available here .
• Draft Call for Papers for the Workshop (one-page Call for Papers that you intend to send out if your workshop is accepted)

[W1] International Workshop on Collaborative and Participatory Modeling (CoPaMo 2025)

Organizers: Istvan David, Anne Gutschmidt, Luciano Marchezan and Philippe Giabbanelli

Collaborative modeling is a key enabler to engineering complex systems. While mostly focusing on the technical and technological aspects of collaboration, the MDE community has also recognized the need for more pronounced stakeholder-facing concerns in collaborative modeling techniques and tools. Such stakeholder-facing concerns are the ones researched under the participatory modeling umbrella. We aim to expose the synergies between collaborative and participatory modeling by inviting researchers and organizers from both communities.

[W2] 2nd International Workshop on Sustainability and Modeling (SusMod’25)

Organizers: Istvan David, Arianna Fedeli and Vincenzo Stoico

Sustainability is becoming a key characteristic of modern systems. While this trend has been long recognized, rigorous formal methods for assessing sustainability, reasoning about often contradicting sustainability properties, and involving the human in this process are missing.

This workshop aims to unearth visceral links between sustainability and MDE, and that, in both directions: MDE in support of sustainable systems engineering, and sustainability of MDE techniques.

[W3] MDE Intelligence: 7th Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Model-driven Engineering

Organizers: Lola Burgueño, Dominik Bork and Claudio Di Sipio

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become part of everyone’s life. More recently, AI has started to impact all aspects of the system and software development lifecycle, from specification to design, testing, deployment, and maintenance, with the main goal of helping engineers produce higher-quality systems and software more efficiently while being able to handle ever more complex systems. We believe there is a clear need for AI-empowered MDE, which will push the limits of “classic” MDE and provide the proper techniques to develop the next generation of highly complex software systems engineers will have to design tomorrow. This workshop will be the opportunity to discuss how to choose, evaluate, and adapt AI techniques to Model-Driven Engineering (AI for MDE) as a way to improve current system and software modeling and generation processes while, at the same time, increasing the benefits and reducing the costs of adopting MDE. Furthermore, AI is software (and complex software, in fact) that can benefit from an MDE approach in its design and development, especially with the challenge of designing trustworthy and frugal AI software. Thus, MDE for AI is also within the scope of this workshop. We aim to take a broad view of AI, including any technique that provides human cognitive capabilities and helps create “intelligent” software.

In 2025, we specifically invite papers that explore novel techniques of incorporating Foundation Models (FM) and Large Language Models (LLMs) in MDE. Moreover, we aim to establish a new intelligent modeling assistants competition.

[W4] Modeling Language Engineering (MLE)

Organizers: Josselin Enet, Ivan Kurtev and Andreas Wortmann

Modeling is a key paradigm to successfully engineer software intensive systems in collaboration with experts from diverse domains. These experts use domain-specific concepts, notations, and paradigms, that need to be expressed in suitable, domain-specific modeling languages. Conceiving, engineering, evolving, and maintaining domain-specific modeling languages, hence, is crucial to handle increasing complexity of software-intensive systems. Consequently, modeling language engineering is vital to the success of modeling in particular and the engineering of these systems in general. The proposed MLE workshop will be a full-day workshop aiming at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the language and modeling language engineering communities to discuss the challenges associated with the engineering of modeling languages as well as their integration. Following five editions of the GEMOC workshop, four of the EXE workshop, and six joint editions as the MLE workshop, this edition will continue the success of MLE and, again, attract a large number of interested participants from the MODELS and the SLE community.

[W5] MULTI 2025

Organizers: Arne Lange, Fernando Macías and Pierre Maier

The MULTI workshop series is the premier venue for researchers and practitioners working on multi-level modeling and multi-level software development. Multi-level modeling represents a new object-oriented paradigm for both conceptual modelling and software engineering. In contrast to conventional two-level approaches, it supports an unbounded number of classification levels and introduces concepts and mechanisms that foster reuse, adaptability, and control. While multi-level languages and tools have reached considerable maturity, the field still offers numerous challenges.

The MULTI workshop series aims at providing a platform for exchanging ideas and promoting further development of multi-level languages, methods, and tools. A particular goal is to encourage the community to, beyond proposing new approaches, analyse different approaches to multi-level modelling and define objective ways to evaluate their respective strengths and weaknesses.

[W6] Models and Evolution 2025 (ME 2025)

Organizers: Wael Kessentini, Juri Di Rocco and Djamel Eddine Khelladi

Model artifacts are subject to constant evolution throughout the life cycle of modern systems. These dynamics necessitate proper theories, techniques and tools to ensure correctness, consistency, and high quality across the trajectory of evolution. However, evolution issues are critical, complex and costly to manage, and even more concerned by constant increase in complexity. They concern requirements, software architecture, design, source code, documentation, integration or deployment. They also typically affect various kinds of models (data, behavioural, domain, source code or goal models). The Models and Evolution (ME) workshop will be in its 19th edition in 2025 and aims to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss the latest developments around the topic of evolution of models and various artefacts used in MDE.

[W7] Second International Workshop on Model Management (MoM)

Organizers: Dominique Blouin, Sylvain Guérin, Arne Lange, Moussa Amrani, Anish Bhobe, Chahrazed Boudjemila and Thomas Weber

Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) is a popular way to specify, design, implement, deploy and maintain complex systems with high quality and lower costs. These systems combine multiple areas of engineering, including mechanical, electrical, hydraulic, biochemical, control, signal processing, and more. To represent all these aspects, a large number of heterogeneous models are required. However, managing these models correctly can be challenging, especially when different teams work on them simultaneously, which is common in collaborative and concurrent engineering. This activity is called Model Management (MoM), and includes activities beyond maintaining model consistency, such as ensuring traceability, managing model views, model validity, model versions, and development workflows.

MoM is crucial for industries that are moving from traditional engineering methods to MBSE. Therefore, there are many approaches to MoM, both from academia and industry. However, there is still no single theory or approach to tackle this problem. To address this, the second edition of this MoM workshop aims to bring together international researchers and practitioners from academia and research for an intense one-day workshop and a half-day challenge. The goal is to improve the state-of-the-art in MoM, develop new collaborations, and define future research directions.

[W8] LowCode 2025: Low-Code Development Platforms

Organizers: Luca Berardinelli, Juri Di Rocco, Dimitris Kolovos and Jean-Marie Mottu

Cloud-based low-code development platforms such as Google’s AppSheet, Microsoft’s PowerApps, OutSystems and Mendix have become increasingly popular over the last few years, owing to an increasing demand for bespoke, cost-efficient and reliable data-intensive (e.g., back-office) software solutions. Low-code platforms are model-driven at their heart and hence closer interaction and cross-pollination are found to be highly beneficial for the low-code and model-driven engineering (MDE) communities. The LowCode 2025 workshop aims to bring together vendors and users of low-code platforms with model-driven engineering researchers and practitioners, and to explore opportunities for technology and experience transfer, and collaboration between them.

[W9] MoDeVVa ’25: Model Driven Engineering, Verification and Validation

Organizers: Iulian Ober, Jens Kosiol, Saad Bin Abid, Rakshit Mittal, Juergen Dingel and Ernesto Posse

The workshop on Model Driven Engineering, Verification and Validation (MoDeVVa) offers a forum for researchers and practitioners who are working on verification and validation (V&V) in Model-Based Systems Engineering (MBSE) and Model Driven software Engineering (MDE). The main goals of the workshop are to discuss the state of practice in V&V approaches in MBSE/MDE, and to identify, investigate and discuss emerging research in the mutual impacts of model-based engineering and V&V.

[W10] onto:Nexus Ontological Modeling and Analysis Workshop

Organizers: Maged Elaasar, Bentley Oakes, Abdelwahab Hamou-Lhadj and Mohammad Hamdaqa

Ontological modelling and analysis is experiencing a resurgence in its application to complex systems. For example, emerging fields of digital twins and advanced AI (including LLMs) demand the capture and use of heterogeneous domain knowledge. This is a strength of ontological approaches, such as domain models and ontological reasoning.

The goal of the “onto:Nexus Ontological Modeling and Analysis Workshop” is to provide a full-day presentation and discussion space for ontological modeling and analysis in the context of model-based software and systems engineering. We aim to bring together researchers and practitioners from relevant areas such as model-based systems engineering and ontological / model-based tooling, and from various domains such as the automotive and aeronautical fields.

[W11] MoDIoT – 1st International Workshop on Model-Based Development for the IoT

Organizers: Imad Berrouyne, Yann-Gaël Guéhéneuc and Hassnaa Moustafa

The IoT is a paradigm that promotes the principle that physical objects should be connected to the internet—Anything, Anywhere, Anytime (AAA). This vision presents several software engineering challenges due to the inherent heterogeneity of software and hardware platforms. Several perspectives have been explored to address this problem systematically. However, most approaches focus on low-level solutions, such as introducing IoT platforms or fixed architectures. Model-based development offers an opportunity to operate at a higher level of abstraction, allowing engineers to bypass such complexities. This enables them to concentrate on business logic at the model level and use model transformation to generate the corresponding code for low-level platforms. The goal of this workshop is to provide a platform for PhD students, postdocs, researchers, and practitioners in model-based software development to discuss the potential of model-based development in addressing the challenges of IoT.