Automating UML models merge for web services testing
Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Information Integration and Web-based Applications & Services
Automated UML models merging for web services testing
International Journal of Web and Grid Services
Composing domain-specific languages for wide-scope software engineering applications
MoDELS'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
A comparative study of metamodel integration and interoperability in UML and web services
ECMDA-FA'05 Proceedings of the First European conference on Model Driven Architecture: foundations and Applications
Transformation of Typed Composite Graphs with Inheritance and Containment Structures
Fundamenta Informaticae - Recent Developments in the Theory of Graph Transformation, 2010
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The success of UML and more generally, of the model driven approach, has led to a proliferation of models, representing various systems, but the description of large applications may actually be composed of several system models. Therefore, the challenge is to determine how to compose independent system models, in order to build large applications. We present in this paper the software federation approach developed by our team. A federation relies on the concept of a domain, which describes a specific application domain, represented with a specific meta-model. Building a software federation means composing independently developed domains, by composing their meta-models. The UML standard, which is well supported by tools, has been found convenient for describing our meta-models, but it turns out that it does not contain sufficient modelling capabilities for the composition of these models. This paper analyses the need for model composition, the available UML concepts related to model composition and proposes an UML profile allowing the composition of models in software federations.