CRC 1608 Brings Industry Voice to ICMM 2026 with Volvo Keynote

Rennes, France - 2 July 2026
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ICMM — the Workshop on (In-)Consistency Management in Modeling at STAF 2026 — was chaired by members of CRC 1608 Convide: Colin Atkinson, Thomas Weber, Minakshi Kaushik, and Arne Lange. This year's program opened with an invited industry keynote from Volvo Construction Equipment and introduced the new "ICMM Challenge" inviting practitioners to bring real-world inconsistency problems to the workshop.

Keynote: Consistency Management at Industrial Scale

The workshop opened with Johan Cederbladh, global architect at Volvo Construction Equipment, presenting "Managing Architecture at Scale: The Role of the System Model as Source of Truth." Volvo CE ships hundreds of machine models across millions of configurations, and Johan Cederbladh described how he envisions a single, pragmatic system model to keep technology, purchasing, manufacturing, and market functions aligned on a shared source of truth. For an audience of consistency-management researchers, the talk offered a direct view into which parts of the field's research agenda are already load-bearing in industry practice. Johan Cederbladh holds a PhD in computer science from Mälardalen University and works mostly on MBSE and collaboration.

CRC 1608: Contributions to the Program

CRC 1608 researchers contributed four papers:

  • Andreas Domanowski, Dirk Neumann, Philip Ochs, Uwe Aßmann: Towards Change Impact Prediction for Consistent Multi-Domain Evolution
  • Lars König, Fabian Eger, Martin Armbruster, Colin Atkinson, Mattias Ulbrich, Erik Burger: Exploring Design Alternatives for Multi-model Consistency
  • Razieh Dehghani, Fabian Eger, Martin Armbruster, Muhammad Asim Minhas, Bowen Jiang, Benedikt Jutz, Anne Koziolek, Ralf Reussner: Continuous Management of (In-)Consistency in Multi-Model Development: A Conceptual Response to the ICMM 2026 Challenge
  • Monalisha Ojha, Shilpi Gupta, Rahul Sharma: Detecting Semantic Correspondences in Ecore Models via Contrastive Learning and LLM-Based Approach

Additionally, Thomas Weber chaired the "Developing for and with Consistency" session, featuring the KIT papers alongside a contribution from RheinMain University of Applied Sciences. A second session, "Consistency Impact," chaired by Colin Atkinson, featured the TU Dresden paper alongside contributions from the University of Twente and RWTH Aachen.