Tool Support for Model Driven Development of Pervasive Systems

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Cetina ◽  
Estefania Serral ◽  
Javier Munoz ◽  
Vicente Pelechano
Keyword(s):  
Tool Support ◽  
Model Driven Development ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Pervasive Systems

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.

Towards the Model Driven Development of context-aware pervasive systems

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 254-280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Estefanía Serral ◽  
Pedro Valderas ◽  
Vicente Pelechano
Keyword(s):  
Context Aware ◽  
Model Driven Development ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Pervasive Systems

Examples and Evidence

2009 ◽  
pp. 57-77
Author(s):  
Sowmya Karunakaran
Keyword(s):  
Software Development ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Tool Support ◽  
Application Development ◽  
Model Driven Development ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Object Management ◽  
Main Emphasis ◽  
Model Driven Software Development

This chapter aims at highlighting the increased development productivity and quality that can be achieved by Model Driven Software Development (MDSD). The above statement is substantiated by discussing many experiments and case studies in the field of Model Driven development. The chapter will contain the study of various cases in which the Object Management Group’s (OMG) Model Driven Architecture (MDA) has been used as a framework to build different applications. The reader will be provided with an overview of how the MDA paradigm greatly expedites application development with the proper tool support. The main emphasis will be on providing case studies for the measurement of the quality of the models.

scholarly journals A Tool Support for Model-Driven Development: An Industrial Case Study from a Measurement Domain

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (21) ◽  
pp. 4553 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomaž Kos ◽  
Marjan Mernik ◽  
Tomaž Kosar
Keyword(s):  
End Users ◽  
Tool Support ◽  
Modeling Languages ◽  
End User ◽  
Industrial Case Study ◽  
Model Driven Development ◽  
Domain Experts ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
End User Programming ◽  
Domain Specific Modeling

End-user programming may utilize Domain-Specific Modeling Languages (DSMLs) to develop applications in the form of models, using only abstractions found in a specific problem domain. Indeed, the productivity benefits reported from Model-Driven Development (MDD) are hard to ignore, and a number of MDD solutions are flourishing. However, not all stories from industry on MDD are successful. End-users, without having software development skills, are more likely to introduce software errors than professional programmers. In this study, we propose and encourage other DSML developers to extend the development of DSML with tool support. We believe the programming tools (e.g., debugger, testing tool, refactoring tool) are also needed for end-users to ensure the proper functioning of the products they develop. It is imperative that domain experts are provided with tools that work on the abstraction level that is familiar to them. In this paper, an industrial experience is presented for building various tools for usage in MDD. Debugger, automated testing infrastructure, refactoring, and other tools were implemented for Sequencer, a DSML. Our experience with the implementation of tool support for MDD confirms that these tools are indispensable for end-user programming in practice, and that implementing those tools might not be as costly as expected.

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