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Model-Driven Composition of Information Systems from Shared Components and Connectors
Stefania Leone1, Alexandre de Spindler2, and Dennis McLeod1
1Semantic Information Research Laboratory, Computer Science Department, USC Los Angeles, CA, 90089-0781, USA
stefania.leone@usc.edu
mcleod@usc.edu
2School for Management and Law, ZHAW CH-8400, Winterthur, Switzerland
alexandre.despindler@zhaw.ch
Abstract. We introduce CompIS, an approach, model and platform for model-driven component-based information system engineering. Our approach is based on the concept of shared components and connectors between them. To address the data-intensive nature of information systems, our components follow an extended model-view-control structure that also includes data. Component composition is based on configurable connectors, which define the collaboration logic between components and support component composition at the level of the component model, view, control and data. The CompIS UML profile allows to graphically define new components, connectors and compositions. The CompIS platform is a model-driven engineering environment, based on an extended object database that natively integrates the CompIS model. From graphical UML model definitions, the platform automatically generates application code that creates and initialises components and connectors. We present and validate our approach in the eCommerce domain.
Keywords: information system engineering, component model, model-driven engineering
LNCS 8185, p. 204 ff.
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