This year’s MODELS conference in numbers is: one accepted foundations paper in the main track, two accepted papers for co-located and satellite events, two awards, and two workshops we led the organization of.
Accepted papers
- Kyanna Dagenais, current Master’s student, got her first conference paper published in the main track still as an undergraduate this Spring. In her work “Complex Model Transformations by Reinforcement Learning with Uncertain Human Guidance” [preprint], Kyanna reports on her state-of-the-art technique for inferring model transformations through reinforcement learning and human advice. The paper received the ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award, a massive accomplishment we are really proud of. The work builds directly on Kyanna’s previous work that earned her a first prize in last year’s ACM Student Research Competition.
- We had a paper in EDTConf on “Engineering Automotive Digital Twins on Standardized Architectures: A Case Study” [preprint] co-authored by our graduate students, Stefan Ramdhan and Winnie Trandinh, and colleagues Vera Pantelic and Mark Lawford. Stefan and Winnie authored this paper based on their course project in our graduate course on Engineering Digital Twins.
- We had a paper in the Collaborative and Participatory Modeling workshop (CoPaMo) on “Towards Ontology-Driven Usability Assessment in Collaborative Modelling Frameworks” [preprint], co-authored by Marko Mijalkovic, Vicheka Oeun, and Sadaf Mustafiz of Toronto Metropolitan University (TMU). In this paper, Marko proposes an ontology to align collaborative modeling and UX to develop computer-automated support for designing collaborative modeling tools with better user experience.
Awards
- ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Paper Award with Kyanna Dagenais for our paper “Complex Model Transformations by Reinforcement Learning with Uncertain Human Guidance” [preprint]
Workshops
- 2nd International Workshop on Collaborative and Participatory Modeling (CoPaMo), the successor of the Hands-on Workshops on Collaborative Modeling (HoWCoM): full-day workshop with eight accepted papers and a discussion session. Co-organized with Anne Gutschmidt (Uni Rostock, Germany), Luciano Marchezan (U Montreal, Canada), and Philippe J. Giabbanelli (VMASC, Old Dominion U, USA). Keynote by Moira Zellner (Northwestern U, USA).
- 2nd International Workshop on Sustainability and Modeling (SusMod): half-day workshop, merged with MLE this time. Co-organized with Arianna Fedeli (GSSI, Italy) and Vincenzo Stoico (VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands).