3rd International Workshop on Model-driven engineering for Smart IoT Systems (MeSS23)

Co-located with STAF 2023, Leicester, United Kingdom July 17-21, 2023

https://conf.researchr.org/home/staf-2023/mess-2023

A recent forecast from the International Data Corporation (IDC) envisions that 41 billion Internet-of-Things (IoT) endpoints will be in use by 2025, representing great business opportunities. The next generation IoT systems needs to perform distributed processing and coordinated behavior across IoT, edge and cloud infrastructures, manage the closed loop from sensing to actuation, and cope with vast heterogeneity, scalability and dynamicity of IoT systems and their environments. Smart IoT Systems have the potential to flourish innovations in many application domains. For instance, the typical components of a smart city include infrastructure, transportation, intelligent energy consumption, health-care, and technology. These ingredients are what make the cities smart, efficient and optimized respect to the citizen and administration needs. The Internet of Things is an emerging paradigm that can contribute to make smart cities efficient and responsive.

On the one hand, Model-driven engineering (MDE) techniques can support the design, deployment, and operation of smart IoT systems. For instance, to manage abstractions in IoT systems definition and to provide means to automate some of the development and operation activities of IoT systems, e.g., domain specific modeling languages can provide a way to represent different aspects of systems leveraging a heterogeneous software and hardware IoT infrastructure and to generate part of the software to be deployed on it. On the other hand, the application of modeling techniques in the IoT poses new challenges for the MDE community.

Goal
The objective of this workshop is to:
• foster work in its early stage on novel topics covering fundamental as well as applied research that attempts to apply model-driven techniques in the IoT domain;
• bring together researchers from the model-driven software development and IoT communities, and to promote discussions between theoreticians and practitioners;
• discuss the transfer and/or applicability of research results from the MDE community to IoT industrial case studies.

Topics
We are seeking contributions that reports research results or experiences on the application of model-driven techniques to all aspects related to the development and operation of smart IoT systems. The (non-holistic) list of topics of interest are as follows:

• Runtime models and operation of smart IoT systems
• Model-based Deployment and Orchestration IoT Systems
• Model-based Testing for IoT
• Multi-view modeling for IoT
• Code generation
• Simulation of physical systems and things
• DSLM for IoT systems
• Model-based analysis, verification and validation techniques.
• Trustworthiness of IoT systems.
• Integration of IoT, Fog, and Cloud Computing spaces.
• Megamodeling

Submissions
We solicit submissions of:

- extended abstracts (not more than 2 pages including references that will be published as posters in the CEUR-WS proceedings), and
- short papers (not more than 5 pages including references).

All submissions must be written in English, adhere to the CEUR Style single column formatting guidelines, and must be relevant to the workshop topics. All the accepted papers must be presented at the workshop. The accepted papers will be published in the CEUR-WS proceedings of the conference. We plan to invite selected papers to a special issue in a well-known journal.