Model-driven Architectures

Project Managers: dr. ir. Marten van Sinderen and prof. dr. ir. B. Nieuwenhuis
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mathematics & Computer Science
Tel: +31 53 4893677 / 4893675
E-mail: sinderen@cs.utwente.nl / l.j.m.nieuwenhuis@cs.utwente.nl

MODA-TEL project website: www.eurescom.de/modatel/

Project summary

The main objective of this project is to provide the industry with the methodology and tools to apply model driven architectures and related technologies and to contribute to industrial standardisation bodies in order to obtain standards suitable for telecommunications applications.

Furthermore to advance the current state-of-the-art by doing research in areas that have not been addressed so far, like business modelling, QoS awareness, model transformations and their traceability, and UML improvements.

MODA-TEL is a joint effort of European telecommunication network operators, service providers, tool vendors, systems integrators and academia with the objective to advance the software engineering practices, specifically addressing the telecommunications domain in which systems and services are very complex and heterogeneous, requiring always legacy integration. The detailed objectives are:

·	To assess the foundation of MDA by identifying the relevant key technologies and the available tool support

·	To identify the core ingredients and technologies of a deployable MDA and to identify the relationships between these ingredients and technologies

·	To develop and deliver a methodology for the application of MDA technologies

·	To develop and specify a formalism for model transformation techniques

·	To apply the MDA methodology on telecom specific applications, including platform independent models for these applications

·	To specify and prototype tool extensions to support necessary steps in the software development process and information integration

·	To specify the tool chain (extensions) supporting the automation of the software development and operation processes, as well as information integration and management

·	To actually apply the methodology and the tool chain on the telecom specific applications

·	Conduct research on the identified open issues stemming from the assessment of the foundations of MDA

·	Influence the OMG MDA standardisation where appropriate.

Project duration: 2 years; start 1-9-2002

Project budget: 3 M-Euro / 1.5 M-Euro funding

Number of person/years: 25 fte

Project Coordinator: Eurescom

Project budget CTIT: 401.8 K-euro, 200.9 K-Euro funding

Number of person/years CTIT: 3.4 fte

Partners: Interactive Obejcts, SOFTEAM, Intracom, T-Systems, France Telecom R&D, Telenor, Eurescom, UT/CTIT

Involved groups: Architecture of Telematics Systems (ARCH

CTIT Strategic Research Orientation: ASI (A-services Internet)