From MDD Concepts to Experiments and Illustrations

In the context of Distributed and Real-time Embedded Systems (DRES), system developers are faced with reducing system development cost and time while developing correct (relating to safe and QoS properties) and increasingly complex systems. To take up this challenge, Model Driven Development (MDD) advocates the intensive use of models and model transformations on several levels of abstraction.

This book includes contributions from academic and professional experts on a range of topics related to MDD practices, methods and emerging technologies. After introducing general concepts about modeling and how to implement model transformations, two presentations provide an overview of the MARTE profile. Coverage is then given to the most common aspects of MDD for DRES: structuring architectures using components, designing hardware architecture, evaluation and validation through tests and performance analysis. Finally, guidance is given as to how and why MDD should be used by presenting a tool to support MDD and describing an industrial application of MDD concepts.

Jean-Philippe Babau is an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science department at INSA, Lyon, France. His research interests include the use of formal models for architecture description to build real-time embedded systems.

Joël Champeau is a teacher-researcher in the New Technologies Development Laboratory at ENSIETA, Brest, France. He specializes in applying MDE methodology and techniques to a system modeling framework for embedded systems.

Sébastien Gérard is researcher at the LIST in the CEA (the French Atomic Energy Commission) in the LSP Group (Software for Process Safety) where he leads the research theme: “Model-based software engineering for real-time embedded systems”.