1. Philosophy: Lead, not follow. Solve hard problem and build an illustrative prototype, industrial standards are hard to follow because we are small research groups. Not too much coding. If our work solves problems of their concern, the industrial will come to us for the prototype and commercialize it.

2. Research Route: Build a Mindmap, Problem breakdown. Publish papers or write a technique report about each sub-problem.

3. Exhaustive analysis about problem and sub-problems: What’s been done by others? What do I do in the topic? What I (others) will do in the future?

4. Case study of my research: A suitable relatively complex system to study. We need to know the coding (when my research is absent), then we do modeling and transformation applying our research fruits on.

5. Restrict the research domain: around SMP2 and in a specific problem domain to illustrate a MDA application. (MDA is a abstract concept, we will give a illustration and develop it)

6. AToMPM, improved version of AToM3, neutral action language. MOF-based.

1.Modeling the joint training

a)Topic: what you want to study;

b)Scope: what you want to study here, considering Hans’ interests and the topic;

c)Expected fruits: papers, prototypes, tools

2.Modeling the paper(part I):Where to publish?

a)Literature review to find the research community;

b)Relevant journals and conferences;

c)Relevant researchers and organizations--Where they publish, what’s their favoritesd)On the internet (personal website, mainly via technique report)

3.Modeling the paper(part II):Why technique report?—record your experience and work in detail via written form.

a)Detailed literature review (maybe for your PhD thesis);

b)Detailed description of work;

c)Record the work not published in journal nor conference;

d)For time-step to publish your work earlier; e)Source for related work of a paper.

4.Modeling the paper(part III);Organization of a paper (thesis, or problem, we can break it down, also apply to sub problems):

a)Literature review (related work);

b)Foundation (theory);

c)Prototype (implementation);

d)Case study (validation);

5.Theoretical academic research versus commercialized application research:

a)Elegant foundation;

b)Prototype adopting commercial standard

1.About Case study in Antwerp:

a) Find a collaborator (Hopefully In UA, or Ghent, Brussels, Hasselt) in Belgium

b) Domain: Urban Planning, M&S of Transportation.

2.Two application directions of M&S:

a) Science: Biology, Medicine, Chemistry (for the sake of understanding)(difficult but prospective)

b) Engineering: M&S based design(design space exploration, performance analysis and simulation)

3.How to use model?

a) Understanding (simulation)

b) Answer questions(model checking)

c)Performance analysis(simulation)

d)Realize (synthesize of simulation, model checking and formal verification)

4. Where to publish

a)Journals: SoSyM, SIMULATION, JDMS, SimPaT

b)Conferences: MODELS;SummerSim, WSC, SimuTools