scholarly journals A BPMN-Based Design and Maintenance Framework for ETL Processes

2013 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 46-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zineb El Akkaoui ◽  
Esteban Zimányi ◽  
Jose-Norberto Mazón ◽  
Juan Trujillo
Keyword(s):  
Code Generation ◽  
Complex Problem ◽  
Learning Curves ◽  
Model Transformations ◽  
Specific Design ◽  
Data Infrastructure ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Data Source ◽  
Automatic Code ◽  
Modeling Code

Business Intelligence (BI) applications require the design, implementation, and maintenance of processes that extract, transform, and load suitable data for analysis. The development of these processes (known as ETL) is an inherently complex problem that is typically costly and time consuming. In a previous work, the authors have proposed a vendor-independent language for reducing the design complexity due to disparate ETL languages tailored to specific design tools with steep learning curves. Nevertheless, the designer still faces two major issues during the development of ETL processes: (i) how to implement the designed processes in an executable language, and (ii) how to maintain the implementation when the organization data infrastructure evolves. In this paper, the authors propose a model-driven framework that provides automatic code generation capability and ameliorate maintenance support of our ETL language. They present a set of model-to-text transformations able to produce code for different ETL commercial tools as well as model-to-model transformations that automatically update the ETL models with the aim of supporting the maintenance of the generated code according to data source evolution. A demonstration using an example is conducted as an initial validation to show that the framework covering modeling, code generation and maintenance could be used in practice.

scholarly journals Automatic Code Generation of Safety Mechanisms in Model-Driven Development

Electronics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (24) ◽  
pp. 3150
Author(s):  
Lars Huning ◽  
Elke Pulvermueller
Keyword(s):  
Code Generation ◽  
Unified Modeling Language ◽  
Fire Detection ◽  
Model Transformations ◽  
Critical Systems ◽  
Model Driven Development ◽  
Safety Critical ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Safety Integrity Level ◽  
Automatic Code

In order to meet regulatory standards in the domain of safety-critical systems, these systems have to include a set of safety mechanisms depending on the Safety Integrity Level (SIL). This article proposes an approach for how such safety mechanisms may be generated automatically via Model-Driven Development (MDD), thereby improving developer productivity and decreasing the number of bugs that occur during manual implementation. The approach provides a structured way to define safety requirements, which may be parsed automatically and are used for the generation of software-implemented safety mechanisms, as well as the initial configuration of hardware-implemented safety mechanisms. The approach for software-implemented safety mechanisms relies on the Unified Modeling Language (UML) for representing these mechanisms in the model and uses model transformations to realize them in an intermediate model, from which code may be generated with simple 1:1 mappings. The approach for hardware-implemented safety mechanisms builds upon a template-based code snippet repository and a graphical user interface for configuration. The approach is applied to the development of a safety-critical fire detection application and the runtime of the model transformations is evaluated, indicating a linear scalability of the transformation steps. Furthermore, we evaluate the runtime and memory overhead of the generated code.

AlexandRIA

2014 ◽  
pp. 303-322
Keyword(s):  
Code Generation ◽  
Automatic Generation ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Software Modeling ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Internet Applications ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Rich Internet Applications ◽  
Ui Design ◽  
Automatic Code

Model-Driven Development (MDD) tools for Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) development are focused on software modeling, and they leave automatic code generation in a second term. On the other hand, Rapid Application Development (RAD) tools for RIAs development enable developers to save development time and effort by leveraging reusable software components. AlexandRIA is a RAD tool that allows developers to automatically generate both source and native code of multi-device RIAs from a set of preferences selected throughout a wizard following the phases of a User Interface (UI) pattern-based code generation approach for multi-device RIAs. In this chapter, the use of the UI design process behind AlexandRIA is demonstrated by means of a sample development scenario addressing the development of a cloud services Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)-based cross-platform mobile RIA. This scenario is further revisited in a case study that addresses the automatic generation of an equivalent application using AlexandRIA.

A Model Driven Approach based on Interaction Flow Modeling Language to Generate Rich Internet Applications

2016 ◽  
Vol 6 (6) ◽  
pp. 3073
Author(s):  
Sarra Roubi ◽  
Mohammed Erramdani ◽  
Samir Mbarki
Keyword(s):  
User Interfaces ◽  
Code Generation ◽  
Model Transformations ◽  
Modeling Framework ◽  
Rich Internet Application ◽  
Internet Applications ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Rich Internet Applications ◽  
Desktop Interfaces ◽  
Model Driven Approach

<p><span lang="EN-US">A Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) combine the simplicity of the hypertext paradigm with the flexibility of desktop interfaces. These appliations were proposed as a solution to follow the rapid growth and evolution of the Graphical User Interfaces. However, RIAs are complex applications and their development requires designing and implementation which are time-consuming and the available tools are specialized in manual design. In this paper, we present a model driven approach to generat GUI for Rich Internet Application. The approach exploits the new language IFML recently adopted by the Object Management Group. We used frameworks and technologies known to Model-Driven Engineering, such as Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) for Meta-modeling, Query View Transformation (QVT) for model transformations and Acceleo for code generation. The approach allows to quickly and efficiently generating a RIA focusing on the graphical aspect of the application.</span></p>

Tool to Support the Design Methdology

2009 ◽  
pp. 253-286
Author(s):  
Roberto Paiano ◽  
Anna Lisa Guido ◽  
Andrea Pandurino
Keyword(s):  
Code Generation ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Web Applications ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Design And Implementation ◽  
Intrinsic Complexity ◽  
Automatic Code ◽  
Machine Readable ◽  
The Web

As it will be clearer subsequently, two different technologies will be used for realizing the generation of the code; the first one predominantly focused on the generation of code for the Web applications that do not have an underlying business process, and that they do not require, therefore, the management of the relative problems. The second technology has been selected instead, to also keep in mind the business processes. In order to provide support to the designer in the design of the whole complex Web information system, it is essential to provide a suitable tool that hides the intrinsic complexity of the methodology supporting the designer in the application of the same that is often complex, and the tool has to be able to translate the design made up in a machine readable format to be able to use this design in the following automatic code generation of the Web application according to a model-driven approach. In this chapter, we introduce the design and implementation of the editor made up mainly of the architecture presented (and based on Eclipse™ Platform as illustrated in the preceding chapter) and on the methodological steps of integration among the several editors for the design and implementation of these guidelines.

Application of Executable UML Technology for Verification of Armored Vehicle Information System Model

2014 ◽  
Vol 602-605 ◽  
pp. 1324-1328 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fa Lu ◽  
Ke Wei Yang ◽  
Shu Teng Zhang ◽  
Guo Xiong Zhan
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Code Generation ◽  
System Model ◽  
Automatic Code Generation ◽  
Model Driven Architecture ◽  
Verification Method ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Armored Vehicle ◽  
Vehicle Information ◽  
Automatic Code

Executable UML is one of development directions of Model Driven Architecture (MDA). Executable UML is committed to the automatic code generation from UML model. The simulation and testing of the model is realized either by compiling the model or by executing the code it generate. For solving the problem that how to confirm the correctness of executable model, this paper researches the mechanism of executable UML model and explore a verification method based on executable UML. Finally, researches how to apply the executable mechanism of Executable UML to the design and verification of Armored Vehicle Information System (AVIS) through an imaginary combat mission scenario.

Model-driven development of multiagent systems: a survey and evaluation

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 479-503 ◽  
Author(s):  
Geylani Kardas
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Multiagent Systems ◽  
Code Generation ◽  
Model Transformations ◽  
Tool Support ◽  
Model Driven Development ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Abstraction Level ◽  
Agent Oriented Software Engineering ◽  
Research Activities

AbstractTo work in a higher abstraction level is of critical importance for the development of multiagent systems (MAS) since it is almost impossible to observe code-level details of such systems due to their internal complexity, distributedness and openness. As one of the promising software development approaches, model-driven development (MDD) aims to change the focus of software development from code to models. This paradigm shift, introduced by the MDD, may also provide the desired abstraction level during the development of MASs. For this reason, MDD of autonomous agents and MASs has been recognized and become one of the research topics in agent-oriented software engineering (AOSE) area. Contributions are mainly based on the model-driven architecture (MDA), which is the most famous and in-use realization of MDD. Within this direction, AOSE researchers define MAS metamodels in various abstraction levels and apply model transformations between the instances of these metamodels in order to provide rapid and efficient implementation of the MASs in various platforms. Reorganization of the existing MAS development methodologies to support model-driven agent development is another emerging research track. In this paper, we give a state of the art survey on above mentioned model-driven MAS development research activities and evaluate the introduced approaches according to five quality criteria we define on model-driven MAS engineering: (1) definition of a platform independent MAS metamodel, (2) model-to-model transformability, (3) model-to-code transformability, (4) support for multiple MAS platforms and finally (5) tool support for software modeling and code generation. Our evaluation has shown that the researchers contributed to the area by providing MDD processes in which design of the MASs are realized at a very high abstraction level and the software for these MASs are developed as a result of the application of a series of model transformations. However, most of the approaches are incapable of supporting multiple MAS environments due to the restricted specifications of their metamodels and model transformations. Also efficiency and practicability of the proposed methodologies are under debate since the amount and quality of the executable MAS components, gained automatically, appear to be not sufficient.

scholarly journals Model-driven development and multiprocessor implementation of a dynamic control algorithm for nanopositioning and nanomeasuring machines

2009 ◽  
Vol 223 (3) ◽  
pp. 417-429
Author(s):  
M Müller ◽  
W Fengler ◽  
A Amthor ◽  
C Ament
Keyword(s):  
Code Generation ◽  
Control Algorithm ◽  
Dynamic Control ◽  
Design Environment ◽  
Trajectory Tracking Control ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Distributed Implementation ◽  
Computationally Intensive ◽  
Development Approach ◽  
Automatic Code

This article presents a computationally intensive adaptive trajectory tracking control algorithm for dynamic control of nanopositioning and nanomeasuring machines. To realize the required high sample rate of the control algorithm, an embedded multiprocessor architecture has been chosen as development target. The model-oriented development approach studied here aims to narrow the gap between the control system design environment MATLAB/Simulink® and the actual distributed implementation on the custom platform by introducing a custom code generation target intending the utilization of automatic code generation facilities.

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