A FORMAL ARCHITECTURE-CENTRIC MODEL-DRIVEN APPROACH FOR THE AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF GRID APPLICATIONS

David Manset, Hervé Verjus3, Richard McClatchey, Flavio Oquendo

2006

Abstract

This paper discusses the concept of model-driven software engineering applied to the Grid application domain. As an extension to this concept, the approach described here, attempts to combine both formal architecture-centric and model-driven paradigms. It is a commonly recognized statement that Grid systems have seldom been designed using formal techniques although from past experience such techniques have shown advantages. This paper advocates a formal engineering approach to Grid system developments in an effort to contribute to the rigorous development of Grids software architectures. This approach addresses quality of service and cross-platform developments by applying the model-driven paradigm to a formal architecture-centric engineering method. This combination benefits from a formal semantic description power in addition to model-based transformations. The result of such a novel combined concept promotes the re-use of design models and facilitates developments in Grid computing.

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Manset D., Verjus3 H., McClatchey R. and Oquendo F. (2006). A FORMAL ARCHITECTURE-CENTRIC MODEL-DRIVEN APPROACH FOR THE AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF GRID APPLICATIONS . In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-43-6, pages 322-330. DOI: 10.5220/0002443503220330


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@conference{iceis06,
author={David Manset and Hervé Verjus3 and Richard McClatchey and Flavio Oquendo},
title={A FORMAL ARCHITECTURE-CENTRIC MODEL-DRIVEN APPROACH FOR THE AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF GRID APPLICATIONS},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2006},
pages={322-330},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002443503220330},
isbn={978-972-8865-43-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - A FORMAL ARCHITECTURE-CENTRIC MODEL-DRIVEN APPROACH FOR THE AUTOMATIC GENERATION OF GRID APPLICATIONS
SN - 978-972-8865-43-6
AU - Manset D.
AU - Verjus3 H.
AU - McClatchey R.
AU - Oquendo F.
PY - 2006
SP - 322
EP - 330
DO - 10.5220/0002443503220330