MODELS 2022
Sun 23 - Fri 28 October 2022 Montréal, Canada
Thu 27 Oct 2022 10:30 - 10:52 at A-5502.1 - Recommender Systems Chair(s): Jesús Sánchez Cuadrado

In domain modelling, practitioners manually transform informal requirements written in natural language (problem descriptions) to more concise and analyzable domain models expressed with class diagrams. With automated domain modelling support using existing approaches, manual modifications may still be required in extracted domain models and problem descriptions to make them more accurate and concise. For example, educators teaching software engineering courses at universities usually use an incremental approach to build modelling exercises to restrict students in using intended modelling patterns. These modifications result in the evolution of domain modelling exercises over time. To assist practitioners in this evolution, a synergy between interactive support and automated domain modelling is required. In this paper, we propose a bot-assisted approach to allow practitioners perform domain modelling quickly and interactively. Furthermore, we provide an incremental learning strategy empowered by machine learning to improve the accuracy of the bot’s suggestions and extracted domain models by analyzing practitioners’ decisions over time. We evaluate the performance of our bot using test problem descriptions which shows that practitioners can expect to get useful support from the bot when applied to exercises of similar size and complexity, with precision, recall, and F2 scores over 85%. Finally, we evaluate our incremental learning strategy where we observe a reduction in the required manual modifications by 70% and an improvement of F2 scores of extracted domain models by 4.2% when using our proposed approach and learning strategy together.

Thu 27 Oct

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10:30 - 12:00
Recommender SystemsJournal-first / Technical Track at A-5502.1
Chair(s): Jesús Sánchez Cuadrado Universidad de Murcia
10:30
22m
Talk
Machine Learning-based Incremental Learning in Interactive Domain ModellingFT
Technical Track
Rijul Saini McGill University, Canada, Gunter Mussbacher McGill University, Jin L.C. Guo McGill University, Jörg Kienzle McGill University, Canada
10:52
22m
Talk
MemoRec: a recommender system for assisting modelers in specifying metamodelsJ1st
Journal-first
Juri Di Rocco University of L'Aquila, Davide Di Ruscio University of L'Aquila, Claudio Di Sipio University of L'Aquila, Phuong T. Nguyen University of L’Aquila, Alfonso Pierantonio
Link to publication
11:15
22m
Talk
Recommending metamodel concepts during modeling activities with pre-trained language modelsJ1st
Journal-first
Martin Weyssow DIRO, Université de Montréal, Houari Sahraoui Université de Montréal, Eugene Syriani Université de Montréal
Link to publication
11:37
22m
Talk
Finding with NEMO: A Recommender System to Forecast the Next Modeling OperationsFT
Technical Track
Juri Di Rocco University of L'Aquila, Claudio Di Sipio University of L'Aquila, Phuong T. Nguyen University of L’Aquila, Davide Di Ruscio University of L'Aquila, Alfonso Pierantonio