CoPaMo Workshop Description

Collaborative modeling is an important enabler to engineering complex systems. While mostly focusing on the technical and technological aspects of collaboration, the MDE community has also recognized the need for more pronounced stakeholder-facing concerns in collaborative modeling techniques and tools. Such stakeholder-facing concerns are the ones researched under the broader participatory modeling umbrella. This workshop aims to showcase the latest developments in Collaborative and Participatory Modeling, as well as to expose the synergies between collaborative and participatory modeling by inviting researchers and organizers from both communities.

Format

This is a full-day workshop. The morning sessions will feature a keynote and technical presentations. The afternoon will continue with a session of technical presentations and conclude with a plenary discussion about collaborative and participatory modeling principles.
To ease the logistics of participation, this year’s edition will follow an online-first hybrid format. That is, authors of accepted papers will have the choice to present their works remotely. MODELS will offer separate in-person and online registrations. CoPaMo 2025 welcomes online participants.

Call for Papers

Collaboration has become a particularly important topic in model-driven and model-based engineering due to the increasing complexity of systems, which requires a coordinated interplay between diverse stakeholders. However, collaborative modeling cannot be restricted to purely technical concerns and requires support for efficient communication and reducing the threshold to stakeholder participation.
Complementary to the technical focus of collaborative modeling, participatory modeling focuses on organizing stakeholders into a purposeful process during which models can be elicited. The synergies between collaborative and participatory modeling are clear and it is high time to investigate them in detail.
This workshop aims to unearth the visceral synergies between collaborative and participatory modeling in a full-day format, entertaining technical presentations, keynotes, and a participatory discussion session.

Paper format: Full research papers (up to 10 pages) reporting on novel scientific contributions and Short papers (5 pages), reporting on works in progress, preliminary results, new ideas; and collaborative tools and frameworks.

Relevant Topics

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
• Real-time and conflict-free collaboration, consistency in collaborative MDE/MBE, conflict management
• Version control systems and techniques for asynchronous collaboration
• Multi-paradigm, multi-view, and multi-level aspects of collaboration
• Methods for designing participatory modeling sessions: tools, languages, and facilitation techniques
• Involving domain experts without modeling experience
• Use cases and preconditions of participatory modeling: when is participatory modeling suitable?
• Synergies between collaborative and participatory modeling; mixed collaboration models

Workshop Chairs

• Istvan DAVID, McMaster University, Canada
• Anne GUTSCHMIDT, University of Rostock, Germany
• Luciano MARCHEZAN, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
• Philippe J. GIABBANELLI, VMASC, Old Dominion University, USA

Submission Guidelines

Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=copamo2025
Call for Papers more information: https://copamo.github.io/cfp