Supporting model driven engineering using the Marama meta toolset

Abstract

The Marama project aims to develop an accessible and efficient meta toolset for rapidly constructing domain specific visual languages and environments to support integrated model driven engineering toolchains. Marama supports the rapid specification of visual notations and their underlying meta models, behavioural constraints, and model transformations. In this talk, I will describe the design and development of the open source Marama platform, together with a variety of enterprise system-oriented applications developed using Marama. These include a novel overlay based business service modelling environment and a dynamic supply chain modelling tool. In addition, I will describe plans for future development of Marama, together with related work that is applying some of the lessons we have gained from Marama to knowledge management oriented applications.