COEVOLUTIVE META-EXECUTION SUPPORT - Towards a Design and Execution Continuum

Gilles Dodinet, Michel Zam, Geneviève Jomier

2010

Abstract

Despite its promises, the lack of support for consistent coevolution of models with theirs meta-models and instances prevents a broader adoption of MDE. This article presents a coevolution support for reflective meta-models and their instances tightly integrated into an execution platform. The platform allows stakeholders, developers and final users to define, update and run models and theirs instances concurrently. Design changes are reflected immediately in the running applications, hosted by the platform. Both instances and models are stored in a shared multi-version database that brings persistency, consistency and traceability support. A web-based implementation of the platform validates the approach and sets the foundations for a collaborative integrated development environment that evolves continuously.

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Dodinet G., Zam M. and Jomier G. (2010). COEVOLUTIVE META-EXECUTION SUPPORT - Towards a Design and Execution Continuum . In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8425-23-2, pages 143-150. DOI: 10.5220/0002930901430150


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@conference{icsoft10,
author={Gilles Dodinet and Michel Zam and Geneviève Jomier},
title={COEVOLUTIVE META-EXECUTION SUPPORT - Towards a Design and Execution Continuum},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,},
year={2010},
pages={143-150},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002930901430150},
isbn={978-989-8425-23-2},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies - Volume 2: ICSOFT,
TI - COEVOLUTIVE META-EXECUTION SUPPORT - Towards a Design and Execution Continuum
SN - 978-989-8425-23-2
AU - Dodinet G.
AU - Zam M.
AU - Jomier G.
PY - 2010
SP - 143
EP - 150
DO - 10.5220/0002930901430150