Practical meta-model extension for modeling language profiles. An enterprise architecture modeling language extension for telecommunications service creation

Vanea Chiprianov (1, 2) , Yvon Kermarrec (3, 1) , Siegfried Rouvrais (4)

1 LUSSI - Département Logique des Usages, Sciences sociales et Sciences de l'Information
2 Lab-STICC - Laboratoire des sciences et techniques de l'information, de la communication et de la connaissance (UMR 3192)
3 Lab-STICC_TB_CACS_MOCS
4 INFO - Département informatique

Model Driven Engineering aims at changing the focus from code to models. To achieve it, enabling model transformation is essential. A type of transformation is meta-model extension. It is particularly salient for the use of models in defining Domain Specific Modeling Languages, especially for profiling existing languages. Meta-models describing language syntax have a low number of components. Accordingly, an expert-driven approach to extending meta-models is both practicable and preferable to an automatic one, which has a higher level of inaccuracy. We propose in this paper three principles for aiding an expert in practically extending meta-models with domain specific concepts. The resulted language profiles are backwards-compatible. We apply these principles to defining an ArchiMate profile for telecommunications service creation.

Mots clés: Domain specific modeling languages; Model extension; Model transformation

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]; Réseaux et télécommunications [cs.NI]

Vanea Chiprianov, Yvon Kermarrec, Siegfried Rouvrais. Practical meta-model extension for modeling language profiles. An enterprise architecture modeling language extension for telecommunications service creation. 7th Days of Model Driven Engineering, Jun 2011, Lille, France. pp.85 - 91. ⟨hal-00623182⟩