A relevant initiative from the software engineering community called Model Driven Engineering (MDE) is being developed in parallel with the Semantic Web (Mellor et al. 2003a). The MDE approach to software development suggests that one should first develop a model of the system under study, which is then transformed into the real thing (i.e., an executable software entity). The most important research initiative in this area is the Model Driven Architecture (MDA), which is being developed under the umbrella of the Object Management Group (OMG). This chapter describes the basic concepts of this software engineering effort.
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Portions reprinted with changes from Gašević et al. (2007).
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This section was written with the great help of Mr. Milan Milanović (University of Belgrade in Serbia). We are very greatful for his kind help and permision to adapt parts of his work previously published in Milanović (2007).
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In the original work presented in Brown et al. (2005), this transformation type is called model-to-code transformation. However, we believe that model-to-text transformation has a more general meaning. In fact, we do not need to say explicitly that mode-to-text transformations are limited to object-oriented languages or to other programming languages. In fact, software artifacts such as ontology, configuration, deployment, data definitions, and message can also be generated from software models.
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This section was written with the great help of Mr. Milan Milanović (University of Belgrade in Serbia). We are very greatful for his kind help and permision to adapt parts of his work previously published in Milanović (2007).
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Gaševic, D., Djuric, D., Devedžic, V. (2009). Model Driven Engineering. In: Model Driven Engineering and Ontology Development. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00282-3_4
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