Using Cluster Analysis to Improve the Design of Component Interfaces

A short (4-page) version of this paper is published in: ASE 2008 - 23rd IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering, 15-19 September 2008; doi:10.1109/ASE.2008.54 For large software systems, interface structure has an important impact on their maintainability and build performance. For example, for complex systems written...

Using MDE for Generic Comparison of Views

We investigate the application of technologies for modeldriven engineering to check the conformance of two software models. This involves their model-based comparison, and visualisation of the results. To generalise our approach we use reflection, metamodel generalisation, and higher-order transformations. We apply our approach to assess the...

Visualisation of Domain-Specific Modelling Languages Using UML

Currently, general-purpose modelling tools are often only used to draw diagrams for the documentation. The introduction of model-driven software development approaches involves the definition of domain-specific modelling languages that allow code generation. Although graphical representations of the involved models are important for...

Model-driven Migration of Supervisory Machine Control Architectures

Supervisory machine control is the high-level control in advanced manufacturing machines that is responsible for the coordination of manufacturing activities. Traditionally, the design of such control systems is based on finite state machines. An alternative, more flexible approach is based on task-resource models. This paper describes an...