The project organized 10 one-week network events. The first 3 network events were focused on giving all the ESRs the base training in Model-Driven Engineering, Cloud Computing, and Data Science, required to address the 3 research objectives RO1-RO3 of the project. The ESRs also performed a wide set of individual training activities within their hosting institution. We organized three open workshops that gave the chance to ESRs to learn the state-of-the-art from well-known researchers and practitioners, and to exchange information about their research work. We provided all ESRs with specific training on a set of communication, management and career development skills.
Each work package produced a set of exploitable results:
* WP3 (Low-code Engineering of Large-Scale Heterogeneous Systems) produced components for large-scale heterogeneous low-code engineering (Dandelion), smart low-code by recommender systems (Droid), and applications of low-code in the domains of machine learning (Panoptes), IoT (CHESSIoT), augmented reality (ALTER).
* WP4 (Large-scale Repository and Services for Low-Code Engineering) produced a large-scale repository for low-code engineering artifacts (MDEForgeWL), and server-side components for analyzing user interaction events (Modeling Event Recorder), providing modeling recommendations (BORA), parse and generate models from DevOps artifacts (JSONSchemaDSL), performing low-code testing and test amplification (TAMO).
* WP5 (Scalable Low-Code Artifact Management) produced artifact management algorithms and components for static analysis of query languages (Epsilon static analyzer), query optimization (Epsilon query optimizer), a high-performance continuous consistency checker, a transformation engine on Spark (SparkTE), a tool for automatic chaining of model transformations.
The research underlying these tools has been disseminated in more than fifty publications in top-level academic conferences and journals. Our ESRs received two international awards and one national French award. We held a series of 4 industry-oriented events with participation of low-code vendors and users like Bosch, Blackbelt, TypeFox, Gitpod, Axellience, NASA, Boeing, Eclipse CDO and Dynatrace. Finally, we created the LowCode workshop series in the (A-rank) MODELS conference: the workshop series will outlive the project fostering the creation of an international academic and industrial community around low-code.
