About the Conference

The first HoPES workshop aims to motivate industrial practitioners and their academic partners to express needs and give feedback on the applicability of current research results and state of the art tools for Model-Based Engineering (MBE) for Distributed Real-Time Embedded Systems (DRTES). The main goal of the workshop is to provide participants with a global view of current trends in research, requirements and needs from industry practitioners as well as hands-on experiences in which MBE tool platforms are used in industrial projects.

Increasing complexity, distribution and heterogeneity require practitioners to raise abstraction levels to system-level models and abstract components (for early verification or model-based simulation), use generative techniques (automatic model-to-model or model-to-code transformations) to speed-up the design process and avoid errors, validate early the system under design and possibly aim for correctness-by-construction. Requirements cover the whole process and need diverse and complementary solutions. The creation of tooling platforms appears as both an opportunity and a challenge for the adoption of MBE.

The focus is mostly on technical chains, dealing with tool interoperability issues, possibly using heterogeneous formalisms along the whole development process. Interoperability issues can be considered either from a “vertical standpoint” during refinement of the system description (e.g., code-generation or hardware synthesis) or from a “horizontal standpoint” when information is exchanged between composed objects, design views and modelling artefacts, possibly belonging to different development stages (e.g., from design to timing analysis or for requirement traceability).

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