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On the Automated Translational Execution of the Action Language for Foundational UML

Authors:

Federico Ciccozzi

Research groups:

Industrial Software Engineering
Model-Based Engineering of Embedded Systems

Publication Type:

Journal article

Venue:

Software and Systems Modeling

DOI:

10.1007/s10270-016-0556-7

Abstract

To manage the rapidly growing complexity of software development, abstraction and automation have been recognised as powerful means. Among the techniques pushing for them, Model-Driven Engineering has gained increasing attention from industry for, amongst others, the possibility to automatically generate code from models. To generate fully executable code, models should describe complex behaviours. While pragmatically this is achieved by employing programming languages for defining actions within models, the abstraction gap between modelling and programming languages can undermine consistency between models and code as well as analysability and reusability of models. In light of this, model-aware action languages should be preferred. This is the case of the Action Language for Foundational UML (ALF). In this paper we provide a solution for the fully automated translational execution of ALF towards C++. Additionally, we give an insight on how to simplify the transition from the use of programming languages for modelling fine-grained behaviours to model-aware action languages in industrial MDE. The solution presented in this paper has been assessed on industrial applications to verify its applicability to complex systems as well as its scalability.

Bibtex

@article{Ciccozzi4470,
author = {Federico Ciccozzi},
title = {On the Automated Translational Execution of the Action Language for Foundational UML},
editor = {Springer},
pages = {1--47},
month = {September},
year = {2016},
journal = {Software and Systems Modeling},
url = {http://www.es.mdu.se/publications/4470-}
}