ModelCVS - A Semantic Infrastructure for Model-based Tool Integration
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
With the rise of model-driven software development, more and more development tasks are
being performed on models. A rich variety of modeling tools is available supporting different
tasks, such as model creation, model simulation, model checking, and code generation.
Seamless exchange of models among different modeling tools increasingly becomes a
crucial prerequisite for effective software development processes. Due to lack of
interoperability, however, it is often difficult to use tools in combination, thus the potential of
model-driven software development cannot be fully utilized – unless we find some scalable
way of integration.
We are aiming at providing a semantic infrastructure for model-based tool integration,
enabling to facilitate any tool appropriate for the modeling task at hand. The key innovations
provided are a set of scalable architectural model integration patterns supported by a highlevel
metamodel integration language, thus going beyond existing low-level model
transformation approaches. Ontology-based metamodel integration considerably lowers the
manual effort required for tool integration, enabling a novel synergic use of technologies
from the model engineering and ontology engineering domains. An open knowledge base for
tool integration captures essential knowledge about modeling languages and tools in terms
of ontologies, fostering reuse within and beyond the scope of this project.
These innovations will be realized within the ModelCVS prototype and case study. The core
of the system will be based on a versioning system such as CVS, thus providing a looselycoupled
and well-proofed integration architecture. Transparent transformation of models
between different tools’ languages and exchange formats, as well as versioning capabilities
exploiting the rich syntax and semantics of models represent the key functionalities of
ModelCVS. In this way, ...
Sprache der Kurzfassung:
Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr:
2005
Notiz zum Zitat:
G. Kappel, G. Kramler, E. Kapsammer, T. Reiter, W. Retschitzegger, W. Schwinger: ModelCVS - A Semantic Infrastructure for Model-based Tool Integration, Technical Report, 2005.
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