A MODEL DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE TOOL BASED ON SEMANTIC ANALYSIS METHOD

Thiago Medeiros dos Santos, Rodrigo Bonacin, M. Cecilia C. Baranauskas, Marcos Antônio Rodrigues

2008

Abstract

Literature in Information Systems presents a set of approaches to analyzing and modeling the organizational context in order to improve the quality of the computational systems. The research community also looks for alternatives for aligning these approaches with Software Engineering techniques, which support the large scale and low cost software production and maintenance. In this work is proposed an approach and a tool to support the construction of computational models taken from the organizational models. This approach is based on concepts, methods and techniques from MDA (Model Driven Architecture), and from Organizational Semiotics, more specifically the MEASUR (Methods for Eliciting, Analyzing and Specifying User’s Requirements). A MDA tool was constructed in order to realize the approach. The first version of this tool provides means to model Ontology Charts. By using semi-automated transformations, it is also possible to produce UML (Unified Modeling Language) class diagrams from the modeled Ontology Charts. The tool features, design solutions, and capabilities are explained.

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Medeiros dos Santos T., Bonacin R., Cecilia C. Baranauskas M. and Antônio Rodrigues M. (2008). A MODEL DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE TOOL BASED ON SEMANTIC ANALYSIS METHOD . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-38-8, pages 305-310. DOI: 10.5220/0001703703050310


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@conference{iceis08,
author={Thiago Medeiros dos Santos and Rodrigo Bonacin and M. Cecilia C. Baranauskas and Marcos Antônio Rodrigues},
title={A MODEL DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE TOOL BASED ON SEMANTIC ANALYSIS METHOD},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={305-310},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001703703050310},
isbn={978-989-8111-38-8},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 6: ICEIS,
TI - A MODEL DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE TOOL BASED ON SEMANTIC ANALYSIS METHOD
SN - 978-989-8111-38-8
AU - Medeiros dos Santos T.
AU - Bonacin R.
AU - Cecilia C. Baranauskas M.
AU - Antônio Rodrigues M.
PY - 2008
SP - 305
EP - 310
DO - 10.5220/0001703703050310