Convide at MODELS 2026 in Málaga

Convide researchers returned from a succesful trip to MODELS 2026, the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, held this year in Málaga, Spain. Our researchers organized workshops, presented a wide range of research, and brought home a best paper award.

Best Paper Award at SAM 2026

Nathan Hagel received the Best Paper Award at the 18th System Analysis and Modelling Conference (SAM 2026), co-located with MODELS, for the paper “Uncertainty-aware Design Decisions through Probabilistic Uncertainty Quantification and Consistent Merging.” The paper was co-authored by Johannes Mäkelburg, Alireza Maleki, Claus Hammann, Raffaela Mirandola, Maribel Acosta Deibe and Anne Koziolek. Congratulations to Nathan and all co-authors!

Two Workshops Organized by the Convide Researchers

Arne Lange co-organized two workshops at MODELS. MULTI 2026, the 13th International Workshop on Multi-Level Modeling, was organized together with Fernando Macías and Pierre Maier. MoM, the International Workshop on Model Management, was organized together with Thomas Weber, Moussa Amrani, Chahrazed Boudjemila, and Letitia Li. Both workshops attracted strong contributions and lively discussions.

Both keynotes brought an industry perspective to the workshops. Dr. Clemens Reichmann opened MULTI with “Models That Must Live: Metamodeling Challenges in MBSE Tool Practice,” which examined where the classic two-level paradigm reaches its limits in industrial tools and how modeling layers can stay consistent as partial models evolve. Fernando Macías gave the MoM keynote, “MBSE in Safety: A software researcher’s perspective.” The talks gave both communities new impulses, which the group will carry into its ongoing research.

Research Presented by Convide Researchers

Group members presented work across the main conference, co-located events and workshops.

At SAM 2026, Max Oesterle presented his first published paper, “VitruviusOCL: A Declarative Language for Multi-Model Consistency Specification” (with Nathan Hagel, Terru Stübinger, Anne Koziolek and Ralf Reussner).

At MULTI, Nathan Hagel presented “Deep Reactions: Realizing and Evaluating Consistency Preservation for Multi-Level, Multi-View Models,” which grew out of Annika Kienle’s master’s thesis (with Thomas Weber, Lars König and Erik Burger).

In the New Ideas and Emerging Results (NIER) track, Nathan Hagel also presented “UncertainTree: Analyzing Multi-Model Consistency under Uncertainty” (with Johannes Mäkelburg, Martin Armbruster, Bowen Jiang, Benedikt Jutz, Lars König, Robin Maisch, Fabian Reinbold, Thomas Weber, Maribel Acosta Deibe and Anne Koziolek).

At the HuFaMo workshop, Miriam Boß presented her first paper, “Do Not Disturb: Proposing Approaches Towards Motivated Human-in-the-Loop for Less Disruptive Cross-Domain Interactive Repair” (with Friedrich Schadow, Ralf Reussner and Kathrin Gerling).

At the MoDeVVa workshop, Bahareh Taghavi presented her paper “Repairing Conformance Violations with a Reference Model in the Context of Automata Decomposition.”

At the Doctoral Symposium, Benedikt Jutz presented his research topic, “Concurrent Editing for Multi-Model Environments.”