Model driven architecture (MDA) views application development as a continuous transformation of models of the target system. We propose a methodology which extends this view to non-functional properties. Our basic idea is the separation of two different roles in the development process: the role of the measurement designer and the role of the application designer. The former provides a library ...

Both Model-Driven Software Development (MDSD) and Model Driven Architecture (MDA) emphasize the importance of precise machine-readable models and automatic transformations on these models. In this paper we identify the need to externally specify transformation units in terms of required and provided model properties. We also present shortly how one can use semantically rich transformation trace...

Global Software Development (GSD) considers the coordinated activity of software development that is not localized and central but geographically distributed. To support coordination among sites, usually it is aimed to adopt the same development and execution platform. Unfortunately, adopting a single platform might not be always possible due to technical or organizational constraints of the di...

In the future, robots will play an increasingly important role in many areas of human society from domestic housekeeping and geriatric care to manufacturing and running businesses. To best exploit these new opportunities, and allow third party developers to create new robot applications in as simple and efficient a manner as possible, new user-friendly approaches for describing desired robot be...

The limited adoption of Model-Driven Software Engineering (MDSE) is due to a variety of social and technical factors, which can be summarized in one: its (real or perceived) benefits do not outweigh its costs. In this vision paper we argue that the cognification of MDSE has the potential to reverse this situation. Cognification is the application of knowledge (inferred from large volumes of inf...

This paper demonstrates an approach to requirements engineering with process models as the hub for a family of consistent sub-models. The process model taken as a starting point gives focus, and the different requirement perspectives are served through the enrichment of the process model in several dimensions. Different views into the model family give the well-known specification models; infor...

A considerable amount of research has been dedicated to bring the vision of model-driven engineering (MDE) to fruition. However, the practical experiences of organizations that transition to MDE are underreported. This paper presents a case study of the organizational consequences experienced by one large organization after transitioning to MDE. We present four findings from our case study. Fir...

Software engineering techniques made it possible for developers to build larger, and more accurate, reliable, and maintainable software-intensive systems. This was essentially possible by introducing techniques for raising the level of abstraction for describing both the problem and its solution, and by clearly establishing a methodology to define the problem and how to move to its solution. Mo...

Precise modeling is essential to the success of the OMG’s Model Driven Architecture initiative. At the modeling level (M1) OCL allows for the precision needed to write executable models. Can OCL be extended to become a full high-level executable language with side-effects? At the meta-level (M2), queries, views and transformations are subjects that will be vital to the success of the OMG’s Mode...