One foundation of the model driven engineering (MDE) is to separate the modelling application description from its technological implementation (i.e. platform). Some of them are dedicated to the system execution. Hence, one promise solution of the MDE is to automate transformations from platform independent models to platform specific models. Little work has explicitly described platform charac...

This paper describes how to use the Microsoft DSL Tools to construct the Interactive Television Applications system as an example for the Model Driven Development Tools Implementers Forum at TOOLS’07.

Cloud computing promotes economies of scale by sharing software and hardware resources across multiple tenants. To date, there has been relatively little research on how MDE can best support multi-tenant cloud applications, where there is a need to separate the logic and data of multiple tenants. In this position paper, we sketch out five key research opportunities for applying MDE to multi-ten...

When software projects evolve their actual implementation and their intended architecture may drift apart resulting in problems for further maintenance. As a countermeasure it is good software engineering practice to check the implementation against the architectural description for consistency. In this work we check software developed by a Model Driven Software Development (MDSD) process. This...

Model transformations are a key component in Model Driven Development, but most approaches only allow ‘one shot’ transformations to be expressed. Change propagating model transformations are those which can make suitable updates to models after an initial transformation. In this paper I outline the challenges presented by change propagating model transformations, before presenting a new change ...

The dream of Model Driven Engineering (MDE) is that Software Engineering activities should be performed only on models, but in practice a significant amount of programming is still being performed. There is a clear need to keep code and models strongly synchronized when they represent the same entities at different levels of abstraction. We observe that versioning is ill supported by MDE tools,...

OMG’s Model Driven Architecture [5] demonstrates how a system’s specification model can be used within the process of creating supporting software implementations. This article documents the findings of an experiment aimed at determining the extent to which this method of software engineering can be used within the domain of e-Enterprise systems.