A comparison of model transformation tools: Application for Transforming GRAI Extended Actigrams into UML Activity Diagrams

  • Authors:
  • Ramzi Ben Salem;Reyes Grangel;Jean-Pierre Bourey

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratoire de Génie Industriel de Lille, Ecole Centrale de Lille, BP 48, 59561 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France;Grupo de Investigación en Integración y Re-Ingeniería de Sistemas (IRIS), Dept. de Llenguatges i Sistemes Informítics, Universitat Jaume I, 12071 Castelló, Spain;Laboratoire de Génie Industriel de Lille, Ecole Centrale de Lille, BP 48, 59561 Villeneuve d'Ascq Cedex, France

  • Venue:
  • Computers in Industry
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Integration of information and manufacturing systems is one of the great achievements of Enterprise Modelling. However, new factors, such as the fast evolution of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) or the need to set up alliances among different types of enterprises quickly in order to benefit from market opportunities, are causing new types of problems, like interoperability, to appear in the Enterprise Modelling context. This paper shows how a model-driven approach can be useful to solve interoperability problems using model transformations. In particular, the transformation of GRAI Extended Actigrams into UML Activity Diagrams is explored using three different model transformation tools.