Abstract: The MODELS conference deals with all aspects of modeling, from languages and methods, to tools and applications. Empirical studies play an important role in the evaluation of newly designed artifacts (e.g., models, methods, constructs, instantiations). However, relatively little guidance exists on how to conduct such evaluation studies. In this keynote presentation I will introduce different empirical methods for evaluating the designed artifacts and present guidelines on how to conduct experiments for evaluation purposes.

Keynote speaker: Barbara Weber is Chair for Software Systems Programming and Development, Dean of the School of Computer Science, and Director of the Institute of Computer Science at the University of St. Gallen. Barbara holds a PhD in Business Administration from the University of Innsbruck, Austria, where she also obtained her habilitation degree in Computer Science. From 2016 to 2019 Barbara was Professor and Head of the Software Engineering Section at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Denmark. Barbara’s research interests include human and cognitive aspects in software and process engineering, process modeling and process mining as well as flexible and adaptive software systems. Barbara has published more than 160 refereed papers, for example, in Nature Scientific Reports, Journal of Systems and Software, Information and Software Technology, Software and System Modeling, Information Systems, Data and Knowledge Engineering, and Journal of Management Information systems.