Model-Driven Engineering of Service-Oriented Systems

Abstract

Service-oriented architectures (SOA) are an essential platform to provide infrastructures that support widespread collaboration between organizations. These service-oriented systems are a new context for software developers, who must now be equipped with new development methods and technologies. This new context has specific requirements, such as better collaboration and communication between business users and software engineering across organizations and increased agility of the development and maintenance processes to better respond to newly emerged or changed requirements. In this paper, the authors present a research agenda that looks at the use of a novel software engineering discipline—model-driven engineering. By switching the focus from low-level technical details to high-level problem-specific details, model-driven engineering addresses challenges in the development of service-oriented systems. This paper particularly discusses the approach to the development of service-oriented systems based on business process modeling, which integrate business vocabularies and rules in different stages of the development lifecycle. Here, model-driven engineering can provide many promising solutions.

A matching approach to business services and software services

“…For top-down methods, there exist many implementation approaches, including model-driven approaches [2,3], pattern matching approaches [4,5], ontology mapping approaches [6,7] and so on. The abstracted business services can be described according to WSDL specifications.…”

Trends in ICT Service Management

“…In this frame has been created a novel software engineering area, called Model Driven Engineering (MDE). This has as aim to develop general modeling methods and computer procedures, computation and platform independent, permitting to increase the throughput and quality in the development of application software [13,14].…”

An Ontology-Based and Model-Driven Approach for Designing IT Service Management Systems

“…The emerging Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) paradigm offers a promising solution to cope with this limitation. MDE addresses the inability of third-generation languages to cope with increasing software complexity, allowing us to describe domain concepts ef-fectively (Schmidt, 2006;Gašević & Hatala, 2010). Model Driven Engineering (MDE) is a software and system construction approach based on high-level abstract modeling.…”