Excellence Network on Model-Driven Software Engineering – Spanish National Excellence Networks 2017-2018
The goal of the project is fostering research and technology transfer in MDE in Spain, as well as promoting international research collaborations and projects.
In Software Engineering, Model-Driven Engineering is a paradigm where models replace code as the central artifact of the development process. Working at a high level of abstraction improves productivity and quality, facilitates the portability to new platforms and reduces the maintenance costs, among other benefits. MDE techniques are used in a wide variety of industries, like automotive, telecommunications, banking, embedded systems, etc.
As a starting point, previous scientific networks have fostered an active MDE community and encouraged collaborations, as illustrated by the existence of a theme track in the Spanish “Jornadas de Ingeniería del Software y Bases de Datos” (JISBD). This excellence network aims to consolidate this community by uniting the research groups and companies working in the MDE field and exploring the major scientific and technical challenges in the state -of-the-art: scalability, usability, construction and integration of tools, new application domains, etc. The network’s team includes ten of the most active Spanish research groups within the MDE field: SOM Research Lab (Univ. Oberta de Catalunya), ATENEA (Univ. de Málaga), Alarcos (Univ. de Castilla-La Mancha), TaTAmI (Univ. Politècnica de València), Quercus (Univ. de Extremadura), Informática Aplicada TIC (Univ. de Almería), miso (Univ. Autónoma de Madrid), Information Modeling and Processing (Univ. Politècnica de Catalunya), Modelum (Univ. de Murcia) and Kybele (Univ. Rey Juan Carlos).
This network has two main priorities. First, stimulating the scientific excellence of the MDE community, e.g. increasing international collaborations and projects. And second, consolidating the adoption of MDE technologies among industries, through initiatives such as industrial doctorates or the participation in industrial consortiums and technology platforms.
The planned actions include biannual meetings, short visits among researchers in the network, invitations to international researchers, a summer school for students and young researchers in MDE and a portal focused on promoting collaborations with companies. To encourage internationalization and maximize their impact, some of these actions will be linked to international scientific events organized by the members of the network.