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Paper accepted at PoEM 2011

Enterprise Modelling, Information Systems, Publication, Research Paper, SYSLAB

Bringing Enterprise Modeling Closer to Model-Driven Development
Iyad Zikra, Janis Stirna, Jelena Zdravkovic

Enterprise Modeling (EM) provides the means for using models to represent organizational knowledge from different perspectives. When information systems (IS) are involved, Model-Driven Development (MDD) is an approach that focuses on the use of models as primary development artifacts. By observing that EM provides the context for high level requirements, which in turn are the input to MDD, we propose a meta-model that integrates enterprise models and requirements with design models in MDD. The meta-model defines six models that cover both organizational and IS development knowledge. Inter-model relationships ensure an integrated view of the enterprise and the supporting IS by allowing model components to be used across different models. The integrated meta-model is demonstrated through an example case study.

Paper accepted in EMMSAD 2011 Conference

Enterprise Modelling, Information Systems, Research Paper, SYSLAB

A paper titled “Analyzing the Integration between Requirements and Models in Model Driven Development” has been accepted for the EMMSAD 2011 Conference (http://www.emmsad.org/), which is held in conjunction with CAiSE 2011 in London, UK.

Authors: Iyad Zikra, Janis Stirna, Jelena Zdravkovic

Abstract: In Model Driven Development (MDD), models replace software code as the development artifact. At the same time, requirements represent the information that is elaborated in models. However, despite the tight relationship between models and requirements, only a few MDD approaches provide the necessary methodological guidelines and tool support to explicitly facilitate this relationship. In this paper, we analyze existing approaches for integrating requirements with models within MDD. Based on the analysis, we elicit a set of general properties that need to be fulfilled when considering the integration of requirements and models, and we assess the contribution of the considered approaches accordingly.

About me

SYSLAB

I recently joined SYSLAB as a research engineer, working in the area of conceptual modeling. Currently I am involved in a project to create an implementation for SBVR (Semantic Business Vocabulary and Rules), where we are creating a simple and easy to use implementation of that complicated and powerful modeling language.

I’m also a teacher assistant for some courses, such as “requirements engineering” and “system integration.”

Before joining SYSLAB, I was an EMIS master student at DSV. My master thesis was titled “design and implementation of a service registry for sensor actuator networks,” and I did it at Ericsson. The service registry which I created was semantically enabled and could answer queries in an informed manner.

I got my B.Sc. in Informatics from Damascus Univeristy in 2005, majoring in “information systems and software engineering.” I also have 2 years work experience in information systems analysis, design, and implementation, as well as Web development and system/network administration.