Model-driven Engineering for the Configuration and Deployment of Data Processing Applications

This position paper reports our current endeavour towards a model-driven engineering framework to support the dynamic configuration and deployment of complex data processing applications. In particular, our approach includes a domain-specific modelling language that abstracts the data processing tasks and at the same time exposes the control of how these tasks are deployed on specific platforms and resources. A modelling framework of model transformation and models@runtime engines realises the semi-automatic configuration and deployment of the applications based on the abstract models.