A panel at May’s Code Generation 2007 event will look at the evolution of tools and technologies in these areas. Here’s the panel description:

“MDSD, DSLs, MDA, DSM, Software Factories - a whole bunch of terms, all basically addressing the same idea: using notations that are specific to a given domain to formally describe structures or behaviour in that domain in order to automatically “manufacture” software systems for that domain. But how will these approaches evolve over the next couple of years? What are some of the promising technologies? Which standards will most likely gain practical importance? In this session we try to look into the future and discuss promising innovations and developments in the field.”

The panel, titled The next few years, will be led by Markus Völter, co-author of Model-Driven Software Development, and his panellists will include Steven Kelly (MetaCase), Andrew Watson (OMG), Laurence Tratt (University of London) and one other to be confirmed.