Prof. Dr. Harald Störrle - Projects

Model Observatory

The Model Observatory is an initiative to collect, curate, and share models and knowledge about models in the software enineering domain (think UML, BPMN, KAOS, and similar notations). The mission of the Model Observatory is to collect, store, index, retrieve, and distribute conceptual models, and it aspires to further research in Model Based Software Development by providing publicly available rich data sets to validate and benchmark new technologies and algorithms.

The Model Observatory resembles many other model repositories in terms of goal and mission, but it has the ambitionto supersede them all, by far, in may dimensions: number, size, and quality of models; usability and availability of the catalog; quality and richness of meta data; and, most importantly, all models shall be free and available in machine-readable formats.

While the tool platform is still under construction, we have already spawned the Free Models Initiative which produced a FMI Model Index.

The Free Models Initiative is an attempt to increase the number of freely available models. Our first activity was to search for existing existing resources and re-publishing them to make them more readily available.

The MOCCASIN platform is the tool that allows us to build the MOBS Catalog. It is a full-stack JavaScript application based on METEOR and AngularJS, using ZENODO as a back end server for supreme reliability. Read more >>>

The MOBS Catalog is an online repository to collect, store, retrieve, and distribute data sets containing conceptual software engineering models for research purposes. Its objective is to support the progress of Model Based Software Engineering as a scientific discipline, which is currently impeded by a shortage of data sets on which the community could test and benchmark their approaches. The Model Observatory is created to improve this sad state. Read more >>>

In order to raise awareness about existing model repositories, we organized the FMI Workshop. Read more >>>

We compiled the results of the FMI work into the FMI Model Index, an index of existing sources, their content and size, and link, if available. Read more >>>