CFP: 5th International Workshop on Modeling in Low-Code Development Platforms
C A L L F O R P A P E R S
5th International Workshop on Modeling in Low-Code Development Platforms
At the MODELS conference, 22-27 September 2024, Linz, Austria
https://lowcode-workshop.github.io/
MOTIVATION AND OBJECTIVES
The growing need for secure, trustworthy, and cost-efficient software as well as recent developments in cloud computing technologies, and the shortage of highly skilled professional software developers, have given rise to a new generation of low-code software development platforms, such as Google AppMaker (soon AppSheet) and Microsoft PowerApps. Low-code platforms enable the development and deployment of fully functional applications using mainly visual abstractions and interfaces and requiring little or no procedural code. This makes them accessible to an increasingly digital-native and tech-savvy workforce who can directly and effectively contribute to the software development process, even if they lack a programming background. At the heart of low-code applications are typically models of the structure, the behaviour and the presentation of the application. Low-code application models need to be edited (using graphical and textual interfaces), validated, version-controlled and eventually transformed or interpreted to deliver user-facing applications. As all of these activities have been of core interest to the MODELS community over the last two decades, a workshop on low-code software development at MODELS is a natural fit and an opportunity to bring together model-driven and low-code platform vendors, researchers and users, with substantial benefits to be reaped from all sides.
The objectives of the workshop are to:
- bring together developers and users of low-code platforms with model-driven engineering researchers and practitioners;
- explore the technologies that power contemporary low-code platforms;
- identify the open challenges that vendors and users of low-code platforms face;
- identify solutions from the model-driven engineering community that could be ported/adapted in the context of low-code development
TOPICS OF INTEREST
- Technologies underpinning low-code platforms
- Comparisons of classical MDE tools and low-code platforms
- Low-code development platforms as a service
- Citizen/end-user software development
- Recommender systems for low-code platforms
- Graphical and textual cloud-based editors
- Repositories of low-code development artefacs
- Low-code platforms for data-driven applications
- Low-code development for and from mobile devices
- Interoperability issues between low-code platforms
- Automation support in low-code platforms
- Scalability in low-code development
- Collaborative low-code development
- Empirical studies on using low-code platforms
IMPORTANT DATES (AoE)
Paper submission deadline: July 5, 2024
Author notification: August 7, 2024
Camera-ready version deadline: August 16, 2024