 Construction and Validation of Effective Modelling Domains A Thesis Outline Sagar Sen November 6, 2009

Abstract  Modelling languages often specify a modelling domain with an infinite set of a variety of models.  These models conform to a meta-model specification.  However, for a given objective only a subset of these models are effective.  For example…  The thesis I defend is that its possible to construct effective modelling domains to scale formal analysis in order to solve some MDE problems.

Chapter 1 Introduction  A General Intro  Some problems in MDE, not scalable to formal methods  Application related problems : Testing, DSML, SPL  Needs formal methods which are not scalable.  Therefore we need to cut down the modelling domain  Notion of effective modelling domain. With illustration  Details of contribution: Two contribs: Cartier (a software framework implementing a set of techniques to build an effective modelling domain) Validation of the effective metamodel for various applications ( Set of paragraphs for each case study).  All our papers are cited in the Introduction. Contribution 1 … cite the paper  Organization of the thesis

Chapter 2 Context and State of the Art  MDE (Copy paste )  Specification of Modelling Language  Technologies to specify modelling languages (Ecore, MOF, UML, Ecore), Kermeta (check out in Franck Fleureys PhD thesis)  Formal Modelling using Alloy  State of the art: stuff that exists for construction and validation of effective modelling domains : advantages and limitations  Position my work with existing work. That’s the problem in the existing technique we address in Chapter X.

Chapter 3 Cartier: Discoverer of Effective Modelling Domains  Introduction: The objective technology, Alloy tra  General Framework (Picture)  Meta-model Pruning  Meta model 2 Alloy  Feature Model 2 Alloy  Model Typing  Model Fragments to Alloy Predicates  Partial Model to Alloy  Flattening Multiple Inheritance  Components to construct effective modelling domains

Chapter 4: Applications  3.1 Automatic Model Transformation Testing  3.2 Partial Model Completion  3.3 Reusable Model Transformations  3.4 Assisting Domain-specific Modelling Language Development  3.5 Automatic Test Product Generation in Product Lines

Chapter 5: Conclusion and Future Directions  5.1 Conclusion  The thesis I defended was …  In this document I present techniques in Cartier that contribute to the construction and validation of effective modelling domains.  this is what we did and this matches what we announced.  5.2 Future directions  Chain of Model Transformations  Adaptive Systems: Validation of an aspect weaver

Scientific Contributions (With TRISKELL)  2010, G. Perrouin, Sen S., Klein J., Baudry B, Le Traon Yves, Automated and Scalable T-wise Test Case Generation Strategies for Software Product Lines (Submitted to a Conference)  2010, Sen S., Moha N. Baudry B., Mahe V., Barais Olivier, and J.-M.Jezequel, Towards Reusable Model Transformations (Submitted to a Journal)  2010, Sen S., Mottu J.M. Baudry B., Automatic Model Generation for Transformation Testing (To be submitted to a Journal) Accepted:  2010, N. Moha, Sen S., Faucher C., Barais O., and J.-M.Jezequel, Evaluation of Kermeta on Graph Transformation Problems, Journal of Software Tools and Technology Transfer Under Submission:

Scientific Contributions (With TRISKELL)  2010, Sen S., B. Baudry, Vangheluwe H., Towards Domain-specific Model Editors with Automatic Model Completion, Simulation : Transactions of the Modeling and Simulation Society  2009, Sen, S., N. Moha, B. Baudry, and J.-M.Jezequel, Meta-model Pruning. In Proceedings of MoDeLs Denver, Colorado. (Acceptance rate: 16%)  2009, Sen, S., B. Baudry, and J.-M. Mottu. Automatic Model Generation Strategies for Model Transformation Testing. In Proceedings of International Conference on Model Transformation Zurich, Switzerland. (Acceptance rate: 22%)  2008, Sen S., Baudry B., Mottu Jean-Marie. On Combining Multi-formalism Knowledge to Select Models for Model Transformation Testing. ICST'08 (Acceptance Ratio : 20%)

Scientific Contributions (With TRISKELL)  2007, Sen S., Baudry B. Partial Model Completion in Model Driven Engineering. In Proc. of International Conference of Applications of Declarative Programming 2007, Wurzburg, Germany.  2007, Sen S., Baudry B., Vagheluwe Hans, Domain Specific Model Editors with Model Completion, LNCS vol. on Models in Software Engineering,Workshops and Symposia at MoDELS 2007,Nashville, TN, USA, September 30 — October 5, 2007 (Best Paper)  2006, Sen S., and Baudry B., Mutation-based Model Synthesis in Model Driven Engineering, (To be published in the Proc of IEEE ISSRE, Mutation Workshop. )