Addressing modularity for heterogeneous multi-model systems using model federation

Golra, Fahad Rafique; Beugnard, Antoine; Dagnat, Fabien; Guérin, Sylvain; Guychard, Christophe

doi:10.1145/2892664.2892701

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“…Alternatively, OpenFlexo [24] has been designed as a way to support several data sources (whether they are model-based ones or not). However, it privileges graphical (manual) modeling to build views and does not come with an extended (and optimized) querying support at view-level.…”

Section: Heterogeneitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Scalable model views over heterogeneous modeling technologies and resources

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When engineering complex systems, models are typically used to represent various systems aspects. These models are often heterogeneous in terms of modeling languages, provenance, number or scale. As a result, the information actually relevant to engineers is usually split into different kinds of interrelated models. To be useful in practice, these models need to be properly integrated to provide global views over the system. This has to be made possible even when those models are serialized or stored in different formats adapted to their respective nature and scalability needs. Model view approaches have been proposed to tackle this issue. They provide unification mechanisms to combine and query various different models in a transparent way. These views usually target specific engineering tasks such as system design, monitoring, evolution, etc. In an industrial context, there can be many large-scale use cases where model views can be beneficial, in order to trace runtime and design-time data for example. However, existing model view solutions are generally designed to work on top of one single modeling technology (even though

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Section: Heterogeneitymentioning

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“…Openflexo is our open source initiative that started as a business process modeling workbench, but by integrating our recent research endeavors it has evolved into a generic collaborative platform for multifaceted modeling. It uses the concept of model federation [7] to deal with multi-paradigm modeling and provides support for both graphical and textual models.…”

Section: Free Modeling Environmentmentioning

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“…We take all such files as models and use model federation to link them to our solution. Model federation is an approach that enables the integration of heterogeneous models [7]. The concept of model federation is analogous to componentization of models for developing a system.…”

Section: Project Outcomesmentioning

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Using free modeling as an agile method for developing domain specific modeling languages

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Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 19th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems

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Mostly the development of domain specific modeling languages (DSML) follows the traditional model driven engineering practices. First the syntax and semantics of the language are defined (at meta-level) and then it is used for the development of user models. In certain situations, it is hard even to conceptualize the demands of the user, let alone the definition of the language. Agile methods for software development suggest that the development activities should be performed alongside a client stakeholder for incremental development of the system. This approach helps in the elicitation of requirements in parallel to the actual development of the system. We followed this approach for developing a domain specific modeling language and its tooling for a local government project, Brest Métropole. The project aimed at filling the communication gap between the elected representatives (politicians) and the bureaucracy (government officers). We used a modeling methodology that does not restrict a modeler's interaction to a single abstraction level. Thus a modeler can develop both models and metamodels at the same time, where the definition of one helps in defining the other. In this article, we explain our experiences from this project and share the lessons learnt.

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“…Model federation is an approach that provides the means to integrate multiple models conforming to different paradigms [5]. A lot of work has been carried out to integrate models from the same paradigm to get a different views for each stakeholder.…”

Section: Model Federationmentioning

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“…The contribution of this paper is the use of model federation as a technical basis for requirements management. Model federation is a methodology that allows connecting models of different paradigms [5]. In the context of requirements engineering, it furnishes the possibility to create and maintain dynamic links between the requirement models and other artifacts (models of varying paradigms), used all along the development process.…”

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Continuous Requirements Engineering Using Model Federation

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2016 IEEE 24th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)

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Abstract-Researchers in software engineering have been striving to produce new methods to improve the quality of development methodologies to consequently produce quality products. Proposition of iterative and evolutionary approaches was triggered by the realization that requirements engineering is not confined to the initial phases of software development only. With this shift of perspective, requirements engineering has become more or less a continuous process in software development lifecycles. We believe that existing requirements engineering approaches and associated tooling leave a room for improvement in putting 'continuity' into practice. A continuous requirements engineering methodology needs to take into account different concerns of all the stakeholders involved in the process. Approaches like KAOS bring the multi-view nature of requirements modeling in focus by using different views for goal, responsibility, object and operation modeling. We argue that a multi-view approach, maintaining a dynamic link between the requirement models and multiple sources of requirements, can offer a better support for continuous requirements engineering methodology. In this paper, we expand on this argument and present the early findings with the associated in progress tooling support.

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Addressing modularity for heterogeneous multi-model systems using model federation

Cited by 28 publications

References 15 publications

Scalable model views over heterogeneous modeling technologies and resources

Scalable model views over heterogeneous modeling technologies and resources

Using free modeling as an agile method for developing domain specific modeling languages

Continuous Requirements Engineering Using Model Federation

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