NDLI: Exploiting UML Semantic Variation Points to Generate Explicit Component Interconnections in Complex Systems

Content Provider	IEEE Xplore Digital Library
Author	Ciccozzi, F. Cicchetti, A. Sjodin, M.
Copyright Year	2013
Description	Author affiliation: Malardalen Univ. (MRTC), Vásteras, Sweden (Ciccozzi, F.; Cicchetti, A.; Sjodin, M.)
Abstract	Modern modelling languages provide dedicated features to support the detailed design of complex systems from different domains. Nevertheless, especially general-purpose languages provide extensive syntactical expressiveness that, in some cases, may be hard to align with well-defined semantics. This is often inevitable due to the fact that, in order for model-driven approaches to be fruitful, modelling activities should require a lower effort than code-based approaches. In the case of UML and component-based design, precise syntactical definition of the number of component and port instances building up the system is provided. How component instances are explicitly connected to each other via ports is left as a semantic variation point in order for the modeller to freely interpret the related metamodel semantics. On the one hand, in order to allow model analysability, simulation and generation of target code, ad-hoc choices regarding this semantics need to be taken. On the other hand, leaving the burden of this task to the developers is often unthinkable for complex industrial systems (composed by a number of components and connections in the magnitude of 10^4 and above). Therefore we propose a set of semantic rules for the establishment of explicit links between component instances and provide a solution for the automatic generation of these links by applying the defined rules.
Starting Page	225
Ending Page	232
File Size	320915
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	9780769549675
e-ISBN	9780769549675
DOI	10.1109/ITNG.2013.37
Language	English
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Publisher Date	2013-04-15
Publisher Place	USA
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Rights Holder	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. (IEEE)
Subject Keyword	Connectors Analytical models explicit instance model component-based software engineering Unified modeling language Semantics Ports (Computers) model-driven engineering Manuals Containers model transformations semantic variation point
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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