Model Transformation in Web Engineering and Automated Model Driven Development

Author(s):  
Nguyen Viet Cuong ◽  
Xhevi Qafmolla
Author(s):  
Harald Kühn ◽  
Marion Murzek ◽  
Gerhard Specht ◽  
Srdjan Zivkovic

Public and private organisations have a high rate of interaction, i.e. all their external business processes are de-facto inter-organisational. Besides traditional non-functional aspects, inter-organisational processes demand a high rate of interoperability. The authors present a model-driven development process explicitly considering interoperability levels as development process phases. Applying this development process has shown that it substantially raises the interoperability awareness for all associated actors. To further improve “common sense” between the involved actors, we use an integrated modelling language approach. For this, the metamodels of the used modelling languages are integrated using metamodel integration based on metamodel mappings and integration rules. The approach is demonstrated by integrating BPMN-based business process modelling and CCTS-based data modelling into a consolidated modelling language. Considering the integrated metamodel, the authors apply model transformation to re-use model information along the described development phases, e.g. business process definitions are used to generate skeletons for executable workflows and business document definitions are used to generate data model definitions and associated data schemata. The application of the model-driven development process, the metamodel integration as well as the model transformation is illustrated by a case study of electronic VAT statement transaction.


i-com ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 6 (3/2007) ◽  
pp. 5-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alexander Knapp ◽  
Nora Koch ◽  
Martin Wirsing ◽  
Gefei Zhang

ZusammenfassungUWE (UML-based Web Engineering) ist ein Ansatz zur modellgetriebenen Entwicklung von Websystemen. Die UWE-Notation ist speziell an die intuitive Modellierung von Webanwendungen angepasst; UWE umfasst einen werkzeugunterstützten Entwicklungsprozess für die semi-automatische Konstruktion von Webanwendungen; und UWE-Modelle ermöglichen eine frühzeitige Validierung. Eines der Hauptcharakteristika von UWE ist seine Verwendung von etablierten Standards: Die Modellierungssprache basiert auf UML und einer UML-Erweiterung, einem so genannten UML-Profil. Dieses Profil ist als eine konservative Erweiterung des UML-Metamodells definiert, wodurch die Verwendung bestehender Modellierungswerkzeuge und deren Erweiterungen ermöglicht wird. Der UWE-Prozess wendet die Model-Driven-Architecture (MDA)-Prinzipien auf die Entwicklung von Webanwendungen an, Modelle und Modelltransformationen bilden den primären Fokus.


Author(s):  
Mohammad Reza Besharati ◽  
Mohammad Izadi

In Model-Driven Development (MDD), the models, their generation, and imposing changes on them (model transformation) are used for the development of software. Models provide a framework to start from the imagination and abstraction to create and accomplish the final system. Models create a slow and steady transition from whatness to howness, i.e. from the natural path of the generation of software. For supporting this path, the Logic and Functionality of software must be changeable during its evolution. Here we provide a brief introduction to the concept of Model Driven Development.


2009 ◽  
Vol 18 (02) ◽  
pp. 261-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
GEYLANI KARDAS ◽  
ARDA GOKNIL ◽  
OGUZ DIKENELLI ◽  
N. YASEMIN TOPALOGLU

Semantic Web evolution brought a new vision into agent research. The interpretation of this second generation web will be realized by autonomous computational entities, called agents, to handle the semantic content on behalf of their human users. Surely, Semantic Web environment has specific architectural entities and a different semantic which must be considered to model a Multi-agent System (MAS) within this environment. Hence, in this study, we introduce a MAS development process which supports the Semantic Web environment. Our approach is based on Model Driven Development (MDD) which aims to change the focus of software development from code to models. We first define an architecture for Semantic Web enabled MASs and then provide a MAS metamodel which consists of the first class meta-entities derived from this architecture. We also define a model transformation process for MDD of such MASs. We present a complete transformation process in which the source and the target metamodels, entity mappings between models and the implementation of the transformation for two different real MAS frameworks by using a well-known model transformation language are all included. In addition to the model-to-model transformation, the implementation of the model-to-code transformation is given as the last step of the system development process. The evaluation of the proposed development process by considering its use within the scope of a real commercial software project is also discussed.


2009 ◽  
Vol 51 (8) ◽  
pp. 1244-1260 ◽  
Author(s):  
Georgia M. Kapitsaki ◽  
Dimitrios A. Kateros ◽  
George N. Prezerakos ◽  
Iakovos S. Venieris

Author(s):  
Siamak Farshidi ◽  
Slinger Jansen ◽  
Sven Fortuin

AbstractModel-driven development platforms shift the focus of software development activity from coding to modeling for enterprises. A significant number of such platforms are available in the market. Selecting the best fitting platform is challenging, as domain experts are not typically model-driven deployment platform experts and have limited time for acquiring the needed knowledge. We model the problem as a multi-criteria decision-making problem and capture knowledge systematically about the features and qualities of 30 alternative platforms. Through four industry case studies, we confirm that the model supports decision-makers with the selection problem by reducing the time and cost of the decision-making process and by providing a richer list of options than the enterprises considered initially. We show that having decision knowledge readily available supports decision-makers in making more rational, efficient, and effective decisions. The study’s theoretical contribution is the observation that the decision framework provides a reliable approach for creating decision models in software production.


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