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MODELS 2021
Sun 10 - Sat 16 October 2021

Sharing research artifacts is known to help people to build upon existing knowledge, adopt novel contributions in practice, and increase the chances of papers receiving attention. In Model-Driven Engineering (MDE), openly providing research artifacts plays a key role, even more so as the community targets a broader use of AI techniques, which can only become feasible if large open datasets and confidence measures for their quality are available. However, the current lack of common discipline-specific guidelines for research data sharing opens the opportunity for misunderstandings about the true potential of research artifacts and subjective expectations regarding artifact quality. To address this issue, we introduce a set of guidelines for artifact sharing specifically tailored to MDE research. To design these guidelines, we systematically analyzed general-purpose artifact sharing practices of major computer science venues and tailored them to the MDE domain. Subsequently, we conducted an online survey with 90 researchers and practitioners with expertise in MDE. We investigated our participants’ experiences in developing and sharing artifacts in MDE research and the challenges encountered while doing so. We then asked them to prioritize each of our guidelines as essential, desirable, or unnecessary. Finally, we asked them to evaluate our guidelines with respect to clarity, completeness, and relevance. In each of these dimensions, our guidelines were assessed positively by more than 92% of the participants. To foster the reproducibility and reusability of our results, we make the full set of generated artifacts available in an open repository at https://sites.google.com/view/mdeartifacts

Thu 14 Oct

Displayed time zone: Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo change

17:00 - 18:00
Artifacts, Innovations, Empirical Studies, EducationTechnical Papers at Room 2
Chair(s): Lola Burgueño Open University of Catalonia
17:00
20m
Full-paper
Quality Guidelines for Research Artifacts in Model-Driven EngineeringFT
Technical Papers
Carlos Diego Nascimento Damasceno Radboud University Nijmegen, Netherlands, Daniel Strüber Radboud University Nijmegen
17:20
20m
Talk
Characteristics, Potentials, and Limitations of Open Source Simulink Projects for Empirical ResearchJ1ST
Technical Papers
Alexander Boll , Andreas Vogelsang University of Cologne, Florian Brokhausen , Tiago Amorim University of Cologne, Timo Kehrer Humboldt University of Berlin
17:40
10m
Demonstration
Wodel-Edu: An MDE Solution for the Generation and Evaluation of Diagram-based ExercisesDEMO
Technical Papers
Pablo Gómez-Abajo Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Andrés Rico-Fernández , Esther Guerra , Juan de Lara Autonomous University of Madrid
17:50
10m
Demonstration
POLYGLOT for Gamified Education: Mixing Modelling and Programming ExercisesDEMO
Technical Papers
Antonio Bucchiarone Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy, Tommaso Martorella , Diego Colombo , Antonio Cicchetti Mälardalen University, Annapaola Marconi Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Trento, Italy