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In the context of embedded systems design, the growing heterogeneity of systems leads to increasingly complex and unreliable tool chains. The Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) community has been making considerable efforts to abstract tool languages in meta-models, and to offer model transformation mechanisms for model exchanges. However, the interoperability problems are recurring and still not consistently addressed. For instance, when it comes to executable model exchanges, it is very difficult to ensure the preservation of the models behavior from one tool to another. This is mainly due to a lack of understanding of the Models of Computation (MoC) and execution semantics behind the models within different environments. In this paper, we introduce a methodology and a framework to: make explicit the execution semantics of models (based on the theory of MoC); provide semantics enrichment mechanisms to ensure the preservation of the execution semantics of models between tools. Our case study is an integration between a UML specification tool and an industrial Intensive Data Flow processing tool. This contribution helps to highlight execution semantics concerns within the tool integration context.
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Diallo, P.I., Champeau, J., Lagadec, L. (2013). A Model-Driven Approach to Enhance Tool Interoperability Using the Theory of Models of Computation. In: Erwig, M., Paige, R.F., Van Wyk, E. (eds) Software Language Engineering. SLE 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8225. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-02654-1_12
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