OntMDE approach: enhancing AIM with architectural ontology
Nourchène Elleuch, Adel Khalfallah · 2006
Abstract:- Model-driven engineering (MDE) is a software development approach that mainly focus on models design and transformation. Models are basically built to represent different software system views and could be refined and evolved into lowered abstract level. This paper is a first investigation of the model-driven paradigm enactment using established architecture-centric concepts. His goal is to provide an OntMDE approach for model transformations in the context of MDE. The OntMDE attempts to combine both architecture-centric and model-driven paradigms. It is based on two ideas. Firstly, the architecture of model is independent from any platform implementation. Therefore, the architectural considerations that are independent of platforms’ considerations must be dealt with at Platform Independent Model (PIM) level. For that, PIM will be decomposed into two models: an Architecture Independent Model (AIM) and an Architecture Dependent Model (ADM). Secondly, domain ontology is used as marking technique to label the AIM and architectural ontology description is provided to generate an ADM. Key-Words:- MDE, ontology, architectural styles, model transformations. 1