{"title":"A novel approach using alloy in Domain-Specific Language engineering","authors":"Rodrigo M. L. M. Moreira, A. C. Paiva","doi":"10.5220/0005228101570164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005228101570164","url":null,"abstract":"Modeling and building software systems for a given specific domain is a complex task. Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) have been increasingly gaining attention because they are developed to cope with particularities of specific domains. However, DSL development consists in a set of tasks to be performed and some can be error-prone. Identifying the correct set of elements within a DSL and their constraints can be very demanding. Alloy is a popular lightweight intuitive formal language with a simple notation that is easy to read and write. When models of a DSL are specified using Alloy, it becomes possible to generate instances that should represent valid models. So, this paper presents a generic innovative methodology using Alloy in DSL engineering, in order to find and tune language constraints in a systematic way. It also presents an empirical study illustrating the applicability of the proposed methodology.","PeriodicalId":256976,"journal":{"name":"2015 3rd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125311070","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Integrating existing proprietary system models into a model-driven test process for an industrial automation scenario","authors":"K. Beckmann","doi":"10.5220/0005240302550262","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005240302550262","url":null,"abstract":"The introduction of modern model-driven software development methodologies into the industrial practise still proves to be a challenge. Especially small or medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) need an incremental and continuous modernisation process, which incorporates existing projects, is customised and cost-effective. Particularly, suitable solutions for model-based or -driven testing with test automation to increase the efficiency are in demand. This paper presents an approach for integrating existing proprietary system models of an SME partner for describing industrial automation processes into a model-driven test process, utilising a domain-specific language for the test specification. The test objectives focuses on the correct implementation of the communication and synchronisation of distributed state machines. The presented approach is integrated into a test framework, which is based on the Eclipse Modelling Framework (EMF) and the Eclipse Test and Performance Tools Platform Project (TPTP) framework. To separate the possibly changeable system and DSL-specific models from the implementation of the test framework, a stable and more generic test meta model was defined.","PeriodicalId":256976,"journal":{"name":"2015 3rd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131808133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards product lining model-driven development code generators","authors":"Alexander Roth, Bernhard Rumpe","doi":"10.5220/0005242605390545","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005242605390545","url":null,"abstract":"A code generator systematically transforms compact models to detailed code. Today, code generation is regarded as an integral part of model-driven development (MDD). Despite its relevance, the development of code generators is an inherently complex task and common methodologies and architectures are lacking. Additionally, reuse and extension of existing code generators only exist on individual parts. A systematic development and reuse based on a code generator product line is still in its infancy. Thus, the aim of this paper is to identify the mechanism necessary for a code generator product line by (a) analyzing the common product line development approach and (b) mapping those to a code generator specific infrastructure. As a first step towards realizing a code generator product line infrastructure, we present a component-based implementation approach based on ideas of variability-aware module systems and point out further research challenges.","PeriodicalId":256976,"journal":{"name":"2015 3rd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD)","volume":"92 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125451134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"SALT frameworks to tackle surveillance and privacy concerns","authors":"A. Kung, C. Jouvray, F. Coudert","doi":"10.5220/0005444306650673","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005444306650673","url":null,"abstract":"This paper elaborates on the need to take into account the different views of the stakeholders involved in the development of surveillance systems and civil society, during the design process. It first provides an overview on privacy-by-design approaches. It then identifies three principles essential to integrate privacy concerns into the design of surveillance systems. It consequently proposes a design process based on social-contextual, ethical, legal and technical frameworks (SALT) and the challenges for its creation and use. It finally provides a specification of a resulting SALT framework management tool based on modelling techniques.","PeriodicalId":256976,"journal":{"name":"2015 3rd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127741730","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Applying model-driven development to environment monitoring System","authors":"Tran Cao De","doi":"10.5220/0005338205770584","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005338205770584","url":null,"abstract":"Environmental monitoring is critical in understanding whether the quality of our environment is getting better or worse. Information gathered by using an environmental monitoring system is important to make decisions. Vietnam is a vulnerable country of climate change. Specially, in the South of Vietnam, the Mekong delta is known as the region getting the most impact of sea level rise in Vietnam. That leads to a lot of problems making the worst effects to residents in the area, who are mainly still very poor. On the other hand, Vietnam is going on industrialization process that makes a strong effect on the environment. To deal with these challenges, different projects of environment management have been proposed and implemented and many monitoring systems have been built in those projects. Those systems are basically sensor networks with high cost in developing and maintaining. They are related to modern technology such as cloud, communication mobile and wireless. They provide the data for large community for different purposes. Therefore, building such a system is normally a long term project that requires an incremental and modular development for a complex system. This paper, on one hand, represents some common characteristics of an environment monitoring system that requires more study to develop a formal model and a methodology for their specifications, implementations and verification. On the other hand, we would like to adapt the formal model approach proposed for Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) to an environmental monitoring system. The framework of Baobab is also introduced as an example for transformation from model to code.","PeriodicalId":256976,"journal":{"name":"2015 3rd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD)","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126833167","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A unified formulation of behavioral semantics for SysML models","authors":"Christoph Hilken, J. Peleska, R. Wille","doi":"10.5220/0005241602630271","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005241602630271","url":null,"abstract":"In order to cope with the complexity of today's system designs, higher levels of abstraction are considered. Modeling languages such as SysML provide adequate description means for an abstract specification of the structure and the behavior of a system to be implemented. Due to its sufficient degree of formality, SysML additionally allows for performing several automated test and verification tasks. For these tasks, however, a formal encoding of the behavioral model semantics is required; this is typically achieved by generating initial state conditions as well as the transition relation from the model. Since SysML provides a multitude of alternative or complementary notations, this poses a significant challenge to the development of corresponding tool support. In this paper, we therefore propose an alternative approach to the generation of transition relations: In a first step, a model-to-model transformation is applied which unifies the behavioral descriptions into one single notation, namely operations allocated in blocks and specified by pre- and post-conditions. Afterwards, only pre- and post-conditions as well as some auxiliary constraints for fixing semantic variation points need to be considered when generating the transition relation. The approach presented here has been evaluated in the development of industrial tools supporting bounded model checking and model-based test generation.","PeriodicalId":256976,"journal":{"name":"2015 3rd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD)","volume":"42 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114836026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jean-Sébastien Sottet, A. Vagner, Alfonso García Frey
{"title":"Variability management supporting the model-driven design of user interfaces","authors":"Jean-Sébastien Sottet, A. Vagner, Alfonso García Frey","doi":"10.5220/0005329105460552","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005329105460552","url":null,"abstract":"User Interfaces (UI) design is a complex and multi-faceted problem. It depends on devices, users and their environments and involves various stakeholders with different backgrounds. Moreover, user requirements are difficult to evaluate precisely upfront and require iterative design cycles based on trial and error. All this variability is complex and should be managed efficiently to ensure moderate design costs. One solution is to implement in the UI design process Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) and Software Product Lines (SPL). However, current SPL approaches do not consider problems related to specific UI design models, notably the many concerns underlying them. We propose an SPL approach that supports the separation of concerns through multi-step partial configuration of UI features. The approach is implemented in our existing MDE UI generation framework.","PeriodicalId":256976,"journal":{"name":"2015 3rd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD)","volume":"76 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115424194","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards world model-based test generation in autonomous systems","authors":"A. Andrews, M. Abdelgawad, A. Gario","doi":"10.5220/0005228201650176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005228201650176","url":null,"abstract":"This paper describes a model-based test generation approach for testing autonomous systems interacting with their environment (i.e., world). Unlike other approaches that assume a static world with attributes and values, we present and test the world dynamically. We build the world model in two steps: a structural model that constructs environmental factors (i.e., actors) and a behavioral model that describes actors' behaviors over a certain landscape (i.e., snippet). Abstract world behavioral test cases (AWBTCs) are then generated by covering the behavioral model using graph coverage criteria. The world model-based test generation technique (WMBTG) is used on an autonomous ground vehicle (AGV).","PeriodicalId":256976,"journal":{"name":"2015 3rd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD)","volume":"34 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121255806","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Adel Ferdjoukh, Anne-Elisabeth Baert, Eric Bourreau, A. Chateau, Rémi Coletta, C. Nebut
{"title":"Instantiation of meta-models constrained with OCL: A CSP approach","authors":"Adel Ferdjoukh, Anne-Elisabeth Baert, Eric Bourreau, A. Chateau, Rémi Coletta, C. Nebut","doi":"10.5220/0005231402130222","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005231402130222","url":null,"abstract":"The automated generation of models that conform to a given meta-model is an important challenge in Model Driven Engineering, as well for model transformation testing, as for designing and exploring new meta-models. Amongst the main issues, we are mainly concerned by scalability, flexibility and a reasonable computing time. This paper presents an approach for model generation, which relies on Constraint Programming. After the translation of a meta-model into a CSP, our software generates models that conform to this meta-model, using a Constraint Solver. Our model also includes the most frequent types of OCL constraints. Since we are concerned by the relevance of the produced models, we describe a first attempt to improve them. We outperform the existing approaches from the mentioned point of view, and propose a configurable, easy-to-use and free-access tool, together with an on-line demonstrator.","PeriodicalId":256976,"journal":{"name":"2015 3rd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"131250934","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Towards a model-driven based security framework","authors":"Rouwaida Abdallah, N. Yakymets, A. Lanusse","doi":"10.5220/0005368706390645","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5220/0005368706390645","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we propose a model-driven framework for security analysis. We present a security analysis process that begins from the design phase of the system architecture then allows performing several security analysis methods. Our approach presents mainly two advantages: First, it allows the traceability of the security analysis methods with the system architecture. Second, this framework can include several security analysis methods. Moreover it allows information reuse which is complicated when we use separate methods dedicated tools. Thus, we can have more consistent and accurate security analysis results for a system. We chose to implement two methods: A qualitative method named EBIOS which is simple and helps to identify areas of focus within the system. Then, to get more accurate results, we implement a quantitative method, the Attack trees. Attack trees can be automatically generated from the Ebios analysis phase and can be completed later on to get more specific results.","PeriodicalId":256976,"journal":{"name":"2015 3rd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD)","volume":"7 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2015-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134346532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}