Introduction to Model Driven Engineering (MDE)

A model is a simplied representation of an aspect of the world for a specic purpose. In complex systems, many aspects are to be handled, from architectural aspects to dynamic behavior, functionalities, user-interface, and extra-functional concerns (such as security, reliability, timeliness, etc.) For software systems, the design process can then be characterized as the weaving of all these aspects into a detailed design model. Model Driven Engineering aims at automating this weaving process, that is automatically deriving software systems from theirs models. This talk will motivate the use of models in complex software systems, and then covers the basic principles of MDE.