MARTE has been a great success resulting mainly from a European initiative. The challenge now is to disseminate and promote its adoption through the European industry and trigger enhancements reflecting the practitioners’ needs. This is valuable for Europe due to its very strong economic activity in development of embedded, real time and distributed systems. Key point for its adoption is to demonstrate and convince about its conformance, usability and efficiency to deal with current middleware technologies used by the embedded system industry, and adapt it as necessary to related standards of the automotive and avionics domain (strongly structured, respectively, on AUTOSAR, EAST-ADL2, IMA/ARINC, and SAE-AADL). The emergence and dissemination of high quality standards supporting modelling, design and deployment of embedded systems software is a key factor for the emergence of new services as well as cross domain products and solutions. As such, the MARTE OMG standard has the potential to support and standardize future embedded systems design flows and middleware for several application domains, especially automotive and avionics. By being proactive in the dissemination and feedback gathering of MARTE through a series of concrete tasks, the ADAMS project will effectively contribute to deliver the value of the MARTE standard. By structuring work package activities around those two target industrial domains, automotive and avionics, the ADAMS project will more specifically commit itself to acheive the following measurable objectives: * Objective 1: Disseminate widely the knowledge about MARTE through all the actors of the embedded community, including obviously industry engineers, researchers, but also students following courses on modelling and analysis techniques used in the embedded domain. * Objective 2: Trigger and coordinate analysis of its capabilities, limits and required evolutions from specific domain points of view. This will be done through: o Establishing links with domain specific initiatives to promote the standard within their working groups and seek complementarities with them; o Establish and coordinate “working groups” gathering key representative for both industrial and academic organizations involved in related R&D projects, and use those working groups to organize some feedback that will be used in the standardisation bodies. * Objective 3: Promote and coordinate convergence actions on the concerned standardisation bodies in order to ease further exploitation of the MARTE standard in both domains and more generally for the whole embedded system domain. This will include, in particular, actions towards OMG, AUTOSAR and SAE standardisation bodies. Precise measurements of the success in achieving these objectives is difficult to specify and premature to evaluate inside the time frame of the project. Practitioners and researchers, especially those not already involved in model driven engineering, may need a longer time to maturate concepts and adopt positive attitudes. Nevertheless some indirect indicators may bring figures leading to a reasonable criterion to monitor the impact of ADAMS. One such indicator useful for Objective 1 is the number and rank of the participants in the events that will be organised or attended for dissemination. Objective 2 may be evaluated by looking at the amount and weight of the refinements suggested for standardisation in MARTE, particularly those that can be identified as coming from the specific domains and groups influenced by ADAMS. Objective 3 will be evaluated in accordance to the amount and relevance of the amendments suggested to the respective boards for the alignment of the three standards involved; probably, these figures may not be sufficient to measure the actual degree of success in their effective semantic and syntactic alignment, that may require longer time, and deeper research, but they surely indicate the efforts in that direction. ADAMS will contribute to the objectives of the ARTEMIS European Technology Platform in increasing general knowledge on the MARTE standard and reducing the gap with existing domain specific standards and initiatives, though facilitating exchanges, reuse and cross-fertilisation among complementary but high competitive domains. ADAMS also complements the action plan for ICT, defined in March 2006 by the Commission, by bringing a concrete solution to improvement in the adoption of standards in rapidly growing embedded systems of systems and more specifically by improving the cross-fertilisation and synchronisation among domains and inclusion of participants to the standardisation process. Globally, these actions aim of strengthening Europe’s position as a leading supplier of electronic components and systems.