This book constitutes thoroughly revised and selected papers from the 8th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development, MODELSWARD 2020, held in Valletta, Malta, in February 2020. 

The 15 revised and extended papers presented in this volume were carefully reviewed and selected from 66 submissions. They present recent research results and development activities in using models and model driven engineering techniques for software development. The papers are organized in topical sections on​ methodologies, processes and platforms; applications and software development; modeling languages, tools and architectures.