Proceedings

Program

Session 1: Keynote

• Robert Baillargeon, "Automotive Models in Practice"

The complexity of designing automotive electronic systems has increased significantly the last two decades. To address these challenges, technical practices and business models have developed to support the evolving landscape. Some of these elements are created to speed the development time such as AUTOSAR and GENIVI. Other standards are evolving to ensure products are produced effectively and to high quality and consistency such as ASPICE and ISO 26262. At the same time practices in Product Line Engineering, Automatic Code Generation, and integrated tool chains have changed the engineering practice and impact on a daily basis. Much of this work and evolution has a common thread in the creation and utilization of models. The ability to recognize and leverage this fact has begun to distinguish the leaders in this domain. Using some simple examples, we will illustrate the currently observed industry practices, challenges in adoption of technology, and the future opportunities to leverage models, and modeling practices, in the daily business of automotive electronic systems.

Bio
Robert Baillargeon has spent the last two decades in the development of complex systems. Primarily focused in Automotive, he has worked at both OEM and Tier 1 Suppliers where he has led process, methods, and tooling organizations. His focus to improve organizational capabilities has delivered model driven engineering solutions, code generators from models for the deeply embedded products, and application lifecycle management (ALM) solutions to industry. He served as Vice President at Sodius where he ran both North American Services and Product Management. Most recently he has served as Directory of Solution Delivery at CloudOne where he leveraged the flexibility of Cloud technologies for engineering tool deployments. He is currently the Principal Consultant for Method Park America where he works with industrial teams in organizational transformation targeting industry processes as well technology standards such as AUTOSAR, ISO 26262, CMMI, and ASPICE.

Session 2: Modelling in Automotive Design

• Martin Lowinski, Dirk Ziegenbein, and Sabine Glesner, "Partitioning Embedded Real-Time Control Software based on Communication Dependencies"
• Thomas Gerlitz, Quang Minh Tran, and Christian Dziobek, "Detecting and Handling of Model Smells for MATLAB/Simulink models"
• Daniel Lüddecke, Christoph Seidl, and Ina Schaefer, "Efficient Ontology-Based Modeling of Context-Aware In-Car Infotainment Systems - Benchmark Infrastructure and Design Guidelines"

Session 3: Automotive Safety

• Manoj Kannan Soundara Pandian, Yanja Dajsuren, Yaping Luo, and Ion Barosan, "Analysis of ISO 26262 Compliant Techniques for the Automotive Domain"
• Malte Mauritz, Falk Howar, and Andreas Rausch, "From Simulation to Operation: Using Design Time Artifacts to Ensure the Safety of Advanced Driving Assistance Systems at Runtime"
• Stephan Baumgart, Joakim Fröberg and Sasikumar Punnekkat, "Enhancing Model-Based Engineering of Product Lines by Adding Functional Safety"

Session 4: Timing Analysis / Panel

• Alessio Bucaioni, Antonio Cicchetti, Federico Ciccozzi, Romina Eramo, Saad Mubeen, and Mikael Sjödin, "Anticipating Implementation-Level Timing Analysis for Driving Design-Level Decisions in EAST-ADL"
• Panel on Future Directions
  • Robert Baillargeon, Method Park America Inc., USA
  • Krzysztof Czarnecki, University of Waterloo, Canada
  • Bran Selic, Malina Software Corp., Canada

Background and Motivation

Automotive software was born less than 40 years ago. The first production automotive microcomputer ECU was a single-function controller used for electronic spark timing in the 1977 General Motors Oldsmobile Toronado. By 1981, GM was using microprocessor-based engine controls executing about 50,000 lines of code across its entire domestic passenger car production. Within just 40 years, the significance, size, and development costs of automotive software has grown to staggering levels: Modern cars can be shipped with as much as 1GB of software encompassing more than 100 million lines of code and experts estimate that more than 80% of automotive innovations now come from computer systems and that the cost of software and electronics can reach 40% of the cost of a car. A consequence of this development is that the automotive industry is increasingly relying on and becoming a driver of advances in software development and engineering methods, techniques and tools to deal with the many unique challenges the automotive industry faces. Significant advances have been made dealing with many of these challenges involving, for instance, variability modeling and software product lines, standardization, model-based development, cyber-physical systems, and systems engineering. However, the remaining challenges are compounded by future trends: According to an IBM report released in January 2015, the traditional industry boundaries are starting to disappear and automotive companies must adapt not only to the increasing role of cognitive and adaptive technologies and social media, but also to an increasingly open and collaborative ecosystem of traditional and non-traditional industrial participants (such as car-sharing companies); 80% of the 175 industry executives questioned currently feel illprepared for these changes.

Objectives and Topics

Modelling and model-based approaches to software development already have a long tradition in the automotive industry due to, e.g., the high need for abstraction, standardization and interoperability. It is reasonable to believe that advances in modelling will be key to further advancing automotive software engineering as well. A central objective of the workshop is to provide a forum for practitioners and researchers from industry and academia in which novel, innovative, model-based solutions to current and future challenges in automotive software development can be presented and discussed. Another important objective is the identification of new research problems arising from current trends.

MASE’15 encourages submissions presenting novel and insightful descriptions of applications of modelling techniques to problems arising in the context of automotive software engineering. More precisely, topics of interest include, but are not limited to

• architectures and component-based development and relevant technologies such as AUTOSAR, EAST-ADL, and UML
• real-time systems and support for multi-core, mixed criticality and IP, and dynamic scheduling
• quality assurance and support for different quality attributes such as functional and non-functional correctness, interoperability, fault-tolerance, maintainability, and reusability
• safety and security and support for safety standards such as ISO 26262
• requirements and traceability
• variability and configuration management
• synthesis, transformation, iterative development, integration, and code generation
• deployment
• development processes and support for globally distributed development
• emerging technologies such as big data, mobile apps, social media, open source software, and vehicle networks

Moreover, we welcome experience reports describing insightful uses of modelling, and position papers on future challenges and open problems in the area.

Important Dates

• Paper submissions: July 17 (NEW!) extended to July 22, 2015
  
• Notifications to authors: August 21, 2015
  
• Camera-ready version: TBD
  
• Workshop: September 27

Submission

Authors are invited to submit technical papers relevant to the workshop topic. Also welcome are insightful experience reports describing the use of modeling in an automotive context or position papers on future research challenges and open problems.

All submissions must be written in English, adhere to the Springer LNCS formatting guidelines. Both, short papers (not more than 6 pages, including references) and full papers (not more than 10 pages) are welcome. Accepted papers will appear in workshop proceedings published in CEUR. Submissions will be handled using EasyChair and reviewed by at least three PC members.

Any questions should be directed to the workshop organizers: mase2015@easychair.org