Model Driven Approaches in System Development
(MDASD)

Kraków, Poland, 14-17 September, 2025

For many years, various approaches in system design and implementation differentiate between the specification of the system and its implementation on a particular platform. People in software industry have been using models for a precise description of systems at the appropriate abstraction level without unnecessary details. Model-Driven (MD) approaches to the system development increase the importance and power of models by shifting the focus from programming to modeling activities. Models may be used as primary artifacts in constructing software, which means that software components are generated from models. Software development tools need to automate as many as possible tasks of model construction and transformation requiring the smallest amount of human interaction.

A goal of the proposed workshop is to bring together people working on MD approaches, techniques and tools, as well as Domain Specific Modeling (DSM) and Domain Specific Languages (DSL) and applying them in the requirements engineering, information system and application development, databases, and related areas, so that they can exchange their experience, create new ideas, evaluate and improve MD approaches and spread its use. The intention is to target an interdisciplinary nature of MD approaches in software engineering, as well as research topics expressed by but not limited to acronyms such as Model Driven Software Engineering (MDSE), Model Driven Development (MDD), Domain Specific Modeling (DSM), and OMG's Model Driven Architecture (MDA).

1st Workshop on MDASD was organized in the scope of ADBIS 2010 Conference, held in Novi Sad, Serbia. From 2012, MDASD becomes a regular bi-annual FedCSIS event – currently a Thematic Session.

Topics

Submissions are expected from, but not limited to the following topics:

MD Approaches in System Design and Implementation – Problems and Issues
MD Approaches in Software Process Models, Software Quality and Standards
MD Approaches in Databases, Information Systems, Embedded and Real-Time Systems
Metamodeling, Modeling and Specification Languages, Model Transformation Languages
Model-to-Model, Model-to-Text, and Model-to-Code Transformations in Software Process
Transformation Techniques and Tools
Domain Specific Languages (DSL) and Domain Specific Modeling (DSM) in System Specification and Development
Design of Metamodeling and Modeling Languages and Tools
MD Approaches in Requirements Engineering, Document Engineering and Business Process Modeling
MD Approaches in System Reengineering and Reverse Engineering
MD Approaches in HCI and UX Design, GIS Development, and Cyber-Physical Systems
Low-Code and No-Code software development – research, experiences and challenges
Model Based Software Verification
Artificial Intelligence (AI) for MD and MD for AI-based system development
Theoretical and Mathematical Foundations of MD Approaches
Multi-View, Multi-Paradigm and Blended Modeling
Organizational and Human Factors, Skills, and Qualifications for MD Approaches
Teaching MD Approaches in Academic and Industrial Environments
MD Applications, Industry Experience, Case Studies, relationship with IoT and Industry 4.0

Thematic Session organizers

Milašinović, Boris, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia
Luković, Ivan, University of Belgrade, Serbia
Gray, Jeff, University of Alabama, United States
Mernik, Marjan, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Ristić, Sonja, University of Novi Sad, Faculty of Technical Sciences, Serbia
Tolvanen, Juha-Pekka, MetaCase, Finland

Contact: mdasd@fedcsis.org

Submission rules

Authors should submit their papers as Postscript, PDF or MSWord files.
The total length of a paper should not exceed 12 pages IEEE style (including tables, figures and references). More pages can be added, for an additional fee. IEEE style templates are available here.
Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the Topical Area.
Preprints containing accepted papers will be published online.
Only papers presented at the conference will be published in Conference Proceedings and submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore® database.
Conference proceedings will be published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers and posted at the conference WWW site.
Conference proceedings will be submitted for indexation according to information here.
Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between FedCSIS Tracks.

There is a possibility of selecting extended versions of the best papers for further procedure in the journals: ComSIS, ISI IF(2022) = 1.4, and COLA, ISI IF(2022) = 2.2.