The fourth edition of the European Conference on Model-Driven Architecture – Foundations and Applications (ECMDA-FA 2008) was dedicated to furthering the state of knowledge and fostering the industrialization of the model-driven architecture (MDA) methodology.

Research Session.- The Epsilon Generation Language.- Constructing and Visualizing Transformation Chains.- Towards Roundtrip Engineering - A Template-Based Reverse Engineering Approach.- Annotation Framework Validation Using Domain Models.- Prototyping Visual Interpreters and Debuggers for Domain-Specific Modelling Languages.- Data Flow Analysis of UML Action Semantics for Executable Models.- From UML Activities to TAAL - Towards Behaviour-Preserving Model Transformations.- A Practical MDA Approach for Autonomic Profiling and Performance Assessment.- Ladder Metamodeling and PLC Program Validation through Time Petri Nets.- Array OL Descriptions of Repetitive Structures in VHDL.- Textual Modelling Embedded into Graphical Modelling.- Classification of Concrete Textual Syntax Mapping Approaches.- Metamodel Syntactic Sheets: An Approach for Defining Textual Concrete Syntaxes.- Graphical Concrete Syntax Rendering with SVG.- Semantics Preservation of Sequence Diagram Aspects.- Generic Reusable Concern Compositions.- Modeling Human Aspects of Business Processes – A View-Based, Model-Driven Approach.- A Semantics-Based Aspect Language for Interactions with the Arbitrary Events Symbol.- Model-Driven Platform-Specific Testing through Configurable Simulations.- Testing Metamodels.- A Metamodeling Approach for Reasoning about Requirements.- Industrial Session.- Model-Driven Security in Practice: An Industrial Experience.- Supporting the UML State Machine Diagrams at Runtime.- Model-Based Generation of Interlocking Controller Software from Control Tables.- Model-Driven Simulation of a Maritime Surveillance System.- Towards Utilizing Model-Driven Engineering of Composite Applications for Business Performance Analysis.- From Business Architecture to SOA Realization Using MDD.-Realizing an MDA and SOA Marriage for the Development of Mobile Services.- A Survey about the Intent to Use Visual Defect Annotations for Software Models.- MDA-Based Methodologies: An Analytical Survey.- Where Is the Proof? - A Review of Experiences from Applying MDE in Industry.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 4th European Conference on Model Driven Architecture - Foundations and Applications, ECMDA-FA 2008, held in Berlin, Germany, in June 2008. The 31 revised full papers presented - 21 research papers and 10 industry papers - were carefully reviewed and selected from 87 submissions. The papers address all current issues of model-driven architecture, i.e. model management, executable models, concrete syntaxes, aspects, and concerns, validation and testing, model-based systems engineering, model-driven development and service-oriented architectures, and the application of model-driven development. The papers are organized in topical sections on model management, executable models, concrete syntaxes, aspects and concerns, validation and testing, model-based systems engineering, model-driven development and service-oriented architectures, as well as surveys on applying model-driven development.

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