Implementation of Model Transformations (SiTra) and Testing

 

MDA and Model Transformation is a main theme of my research. We have applied model transformation to a number of application domain. To implement model transformations we make use of Simple Transformer (SiTra), a simple Java library and execution engine developed and extended by my team in collaboration with David Akehurst (Thales). In [1] the idea of SiTra is explained. SiTra has been used in various projects [2-9] and more than six advanced MSc projects.

Selected publications

  1. SiTra: Simple Transformations in Java, D.H. Akehurst, B. Boardbar, M. Evans, W.G.J. Howells, K.D. McDonald-Maier, ACM/IEEE 9TH International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems,LNCS, Vol. 4199, pages 351-364, 2006

  2. An Experiment in Using Model Driven Development: Compiling UML State Diagrams into VHDL, David Akehurst, Gareth Howells, Klaus McDonald-Maier, Behzad Bordbar, Forum on Specification and Design Languages (FDL 07) , 2007

  3. Model Transformation from OWL-S to BPEL via SiTra, B Bordbar, G. Howells, M. Evans and T. Staikopoulos, European Conference on Model Driven Architecture Foundations and Applications (ECMDA-FA), LNCS, Vol. 4530, pages 43-58, 2007

  4. On challenges of Model Transformation from UML to Alloy, K. Anastasakis, B. Bordbar, G. Georg, and I Ray, Journal of System and Software Modelling, 2008

  5. A Model Driven Approach to Represent Sequence Diagrams as Free Choice Petri Nets, M. A.Ameedeen, B.Bordbar, Proceeding of 12th IEEE International conference on Enterprise Distributed Object Computing(EDOC) pages 213-221, 2008

  6. A model driven approach to the design and implementing of fault tolerant Service Oriented Architectures, M. Alodib B. Bordbar and B. Majeed. Proceeding of the third IEEE International Conference on Information Management (ICDIM), pages 464-469, 2008

  7. A Model Driven Architecture approach to fault tolerance in Service Oriented Architectures, a performance study, M.Alodib and B. Bordbar, accepted for publication in 3rd International Workshop on Modeling, Design, and Analysis for Service-oriented Architectures (MDA4SOA)

  8. A DSL-based Approach to Software Development and Deployment on Cloud, K Sledziewski, B Bordbar and R Anane, accepted for publication in Proceeding of 24th IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (AINA 2010), Pages 441-421, 2010

  9. OCL Constraints Generation from Natural Language Specification I. Bajwa, B. Bordbar and M. Lee. Proceeding of IEEE 14th Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference (EDOC) Pages 204-213, 2010