[AISWorld] Workshop at ERF15: Improving Robotics MDE with Knowledge Engineering

[Andreas Wortmann]

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CALL FOR WORKSHOP SUBMISSIONS AND PARTICIPATION
MDKE 2015 Workshop on Model-Driven Knowledge Engineering
Wednesday, March 13, 2015 (Vienna, Austria)
http://se-rwth.de/mdke15
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In robotics, developers with different backgrounds and focuses work
together. Nowadays robotic systems consist of a particular hardware
platform with a specific software architecture. Knowledge about sensor
interaction, constraints, and further information is encoded within the
architecture. Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) already impacts other
fields, but widely applicable and accepted approaches in robotics have
yet to emerge. Improving re-use and modularity of robotics applications
requires modeling the implicit knowledge encapsulated in current
robotics modules and models explicitly. Applying Knowledge Engineering
(KE) to model-driven robotics will ease reuse and enable more efficient
robotics software engineering.

This workshop aims to bring together researchers from different fields:
On the one hand languages and tools for MDE have been developed, on the
other hand robotics systems consist of an increasing amount of
heterogeneous software which contains new exploitable knowledge about
their properties and composition. Demands on robotics software regarding
reusability, reliability, expandability, and efficiency are very high,
hence suitable modeling techniques are required to achieve high quality
software products. This workshop provides a platform for presentation of
novel approaches to tackle these challenges by means of MDE and KE and
how they reduce development cost and time. The scope of this workshop
includes, but is not limited to:

- Integration of knowledge engineering with architecture and deployment
  modeling
- Composition of modules and components with the help of knowledge
  engineering
- Modeling languages for knowledge engineering
- Toolchains for the knowledge-aware modeling of robotic applications
- Applications of knowledge engineering to models at run-time and
  self-* properties
- Knowledge-Driven model transformation between languages and frameworks

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Paper Submission and Publication
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We invite you to submit an extended abstract of your work for
presentation. Extended abstracts may be around 1000 words, may include
figures and references, and should be submitted in LNCS format via
EasyChair (https://sselab.de/lab2/public/wiki/MDKE15/) at the latest on
February 21, 2015. Submissions will be reviewed for quality and
relevance by a program committee. We welcome contributions describing
theoretical or applied results, best practices, and preliminary
results. Authors of accepted submissions will present their
contribution at the workshop. Submitting an abstract is no
prerequisite to participate in workshop or discussion sessions. The
workshop results will be published at RWTH Open Access publication
server.

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Important Dates
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February, 21: Submission deadline for extended abstracts
March, 01: Notification of acceptance
March, 13: Workshop date

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More information
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Organizers
-    Ulrike Thomas, German Aerospace Center (DLR e.V.)
-    Klas Nilsson, Lund Institute of Technology
-    Bernhard Rumpe, RWTH Aachen University
-    Andreas Wortmann, RWTH Aachen University

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