Abstract The Manufacturing Execution System (MES) is a production management system
serving as the information center in the enterprise to improve manufacturing transparency. It …

Abstract Context Model Driven Engineering (MDE) aims to alleviate complexity and improve
reusability in software development. The development of complex software implies to divide …

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the world. The manufacturing industry has
already identified that the IoT brings great opportunities to retain its leading position in …

With the recent trend to model driven engineering a common understanding of basic notions
such as “model” and “metamodel” becomes a pivotal issue. Even though these notions have …

Defining a formal domain ontology is generally considered a useful, not to say necessary
step in almost every software project. This is because software deals with ideas rather than …

Defining a formal domain ontology is generally considered a useful, not to say necessary
step in almost every software project. This is because software deals with ideas rather than …

What is a model? What is a metamodel? What is a language? What is a transformation?
How are these concepts related? It is striking to see that, though MDE is supposed to be …

Current trends in manufacturing focus on the use of Information and Communication
Technologies (ICT). The physical world and its virtual representation are increasingly …

As part of the AMMA project (ATLAS Model Management Architecture), we are currently
building several model management tools to support the tasks of modeling in the large and …

CONTEXT: Model-driven approaches deal with the provision of models, transformations
between them and code generators to address software development. This approach has …