Model-Driven Engineering Framework for Component Models Interoperability

A multitude of component models exist today, characterized by slightly different conceptual architectural elements, focusing on a specific operational domain, covering different phases of component life-cycle, or supporting analysis of different quality attributes. When dealing with different variants of products and in evolution of systems, there is a need for transformation of system models from one component model to another one. However, it is not obvious that different component models can accurately exchange models, due to their differences in concepts and semantics. This paper demonstrate an approach to achieve that. The paper proposes a generic framework to interchange models among component models. The framework, named DUALLY allows for tool and notations interpretability easing the transformation among many different component models. It is automated inside the Eclipse framework, and fully-extensible. The DUALLY approach is applied to two different component models for real-time embedded systems and observations are reported.