Keynotes & Programme

Please refer to the MODELS 2026 programme for additional information.

Clicking on the accepted paper title on the Accepted Papers page takes you to the IEEE Computer Society Digital Library page for the paper.

Note: all times listed below are CEST(UTC+2).

Monday October 5

• 09:15 Welcome & Keynote
  • Conference Opening
    Robert Clarisó and Joan Garcia i Subirana

  • Keynote

    Modeling in the AI-Driven world.

    In the last years, model-driven engineering (MDE) has been key to improving the quality and productivity of software development, but models themselves are becoming increasingly complex to specify and manage. At the same time, we are witnessing the growing popularity of vibe coding approaches that rely on Large Language Models (LLMs) to transform natural language descriptions into running code at the expenses of code vulnerabilities, scalability issues and maintainability concerns.

    In this talk, I will discuss how we are trying to combine the best of both worlds in our low-code platform BESSER, an open-source platform to build all types of hybrid systems. From vibe modeling to spec-driven development, we will discuss how modeling for AI and AI for modeling are being integrated in BESSER and what we have learnt along the way.

    Jordi Cabot is an FNR Pearl Chair and the head of the Software Engineering RDI group at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology. He is also an Affiliate Professor in Computer Science at the University of Luxembourg. His research interests include software modeling and low-code technologies, pragmatic formal model verification, analysis of open source/open data communities, and the role AI can play in software development (and vice versa). For more information, visit his personal website.

• 10:30 Coffee Break
• 11:00 Session: Modeling with/for AI
  • LLMA-UML: Extending the UML for Modeling LLM-Agent Systems
    Lukas Walter, Kristian Rother and Stefan Henkler
  • Can LLM agents with generic tools perform MBSE tasks, build-up skills and transfer them?
    Iulian Ober
  • Towards a Modeling Assistant for Capturing CRML Requirements.
    Máté Földiák, Lena Buffoni and Dániel Varró
  • Towards LLM-Driven Transformation of Goal Models for AI-Enabled Socio-Technical Systems.
    Ahmed Hassine and Jameleddine Hassine
• 12:45 Lunch
• 14:30 Session: Multi-View Modeling and Consistency
  • Uncertainty-aware Design Decisions through Probabilistic Uncertainty Quantification and Consistent Merging.
    Nathan Hagel, Johannes Mäkelburg, Alireza Maleki, Claus Hammann, Raffaela Mirandola, Maribel Acosta and Anne Koziolek
  • Towards ASoT-Based Multi‑View MBSE with SysML v2: A Preliminary Study.
    Léo Le Van Canh Canh Dit Ban, Luc Fabresse, Xavier Le Pallec and Emmanuel Renaux
  • VitruviusOCL: A Declarative Language for Consistent View-based Software Development.
    Max Oesterle, Arne Lange, Nathan Hagel, Terru Stübinger, Anne Koziolek and Ralf Reussner
• 15:45 Coffee Break
• 16:15 Session: Domain-specific modeling and simulation
  • ModBench: A Pipeline for Building Modelica Benchmark Datasets Mined from Library Repositories.
    Masoud Sadrnezhaad, Martin Sjölund, Adrian Pop, José Antonio Hernández López, Torvald Mårtensson and Dániel Varró
  • A DSL for Epidemiological Model Calibration Workflow.
    Mraikh Nouhaila, Sébastien Picault, Massimo Tisi and Erwan Bousse
  • A Scalable Framework for CIM-to-FMU Integration and Scenario-Based Simulation.
    Neeraj Katiyar

Tuesday October 6

• 09:15 Session: Process and Operations Modeling
  • Dependency-Aware Reconfigurations of Kubernetes Deployments.
    Ouadie Khebbeb, Philippe Merle and Gwen Salaün
  • A Model-Driven Digital Twin for the Systematic Improvement of CI/CD Pipelines.
    Sara Aissat, Achref Samoud and Francis Bordeleau
  • On Process Mining Executable Use Case Maps: Concurrency-Aware Scenario Synthesis with Variant- and Data-Driven Conditions.
    Daniel Amyot
• 10:30 Coffee Break
• 11:00 Session: Policy, Compliance and Human Control
  • PolicyDSL: A Model-Driven Approach for the Definition and Enforcement of Fine-Grained Access Control Policies.
    Atefeh Nirumand Jazi and Jordi Cabot
  • The Rise of Abstraction and Organizational Change: Preserving Human Control in the Age of Artificial Intelligence.
    Emmanuel Gaudin
  • Bridging Social and Technical Compliance in Autonomous Systems through a Standardized Pattern Catalog.
    Luca Brodo, Giuseppe Scalora, Lukas Walter and Stefan Henkler
• 12:15 Closing ceremony
  • Best paper award
• 12:45 Lunch