Multi-level platform descriptions
Colin Atkinson, Thomas Kühne · TUbilio (Technical University of Darmstadt) · 2005
The MDA approach to software development is based on the notion of automating the mapping of platform independent models into implementation-level platform specific models based on abstract models of platforms [OMG03]. The notions of “platform” and “platform model” are thus central to the whole MDA vision. However, most research on MDA to date has focused on the “transformation” problem [SPG03], and there are few explicit definitions of the notion of “platform” or “platform model” in the MDA literature. Moreover, those that do exist are rather vague and incomplete.