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An MDA Approach Towards Integrating Formal and Informal Modeling Languages

  • Soon-Kyeong Kim
  • Damian Burger
  • David Carrington
Conference paper
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 3582)

Abstract

The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) involves automated trans-formations between software models defined in different languages at different abstraction levels. This paper takes an MDA approach to integrate a formal modeling language (Object-Z) with an informal modeling language (UML) via model transformation. This paper shows how formal and informal modeling languages can be cooperatively used in the MDA framework and how the trans-formations between models in these languages can be achieved using an MDA development environment. The MDA model transformation techniques allow us to have a reusable transformation between formal and informal modeling languages. The integrated approach provides an effective V&V technique for the MDA.

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Authors and Affiliations

  • Soon-Kyeong Kim
    • 1
  • Damian Burger
    • 1
  • David Carrington
    • 1
  1. 1.School of Information Technology and Electrical EngineeringThe University of QueenslandSt. LuciaAustralia

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