Compositional modeling for data-centric business applications

  • Authors:
  • Ethan K. Jackson;Wolfram Schulte

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA;Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA

  • Venue:
  • SC'08 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Software composition
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Data-centric business applications comprise an important class of distributed systems that includes on-line stores, document management systems, and patient portals. However, their complexity makes it difficult to design and implement them. We address these issues from a model-driven perspective by developing a formal, compositional, and domain-specific set of abstractions for the specification and analysis of data-centric business applications. Our technique allows us to formally analyze the specified system at design time; in particular we can analyze whether the system is resilient to abnormal conditions, i.e. that key system invariants can always be re-established.