Alignment of viewpoint heterogeneous design models: Emergency Department Case Study

Mahmoud El Hamlaoui (1, 2) , Bernard Coulette (1) , Sophie Ebersold (1) , Saloua Bennani (2) , Mahmoud Nassar (2) , Adil Anwar (3) , Antoine Beugnard (4, 5) , Jean-Christophe Bach (4, 5) , Yassine Jamoussi (6) , Hanh Nhi Tran (1)

1 IRIT-MACAO - Modèles, Architectures, Composants, Agilité et prOcessus
2 ENSIAS - Ecole Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique et d'Analyses des Systèmes
3 EMI - Ecole Mohammadia d'Ingénieurs
4 INFO - Département informatique
5 PASS - Process for Adaptative Software Systems
6 RIADI - Laboratoire de recherche en Génie Logiciel, Applications distribuées, Systèmes décisionnels et Imagerie intelligente [Manouba]

Generally, various models can be used to describe a given application domain on different aspects and thus give rise to several views. To have a complete view of the application domain, heterogeneous models need to be unified, which is a hard task to do. To tackle this problem, we have proposed a method to relate partial models without combining them in a single model. In our approach, partial models are organized as a network of models through a virtual global model called M1C (Model of correspondences between models) which conforms to a ubiquitous language based on a Meta-Model of Correspondences (MMC). This paper presents an application of our method to an “Emergency Department” case study. It has been performed as a collaborative process involving model designers and a supervisor. The focus is put on the building of the M1C model from 3 partial models.

Mots clés: Semantic expression; Partial models; Heterogeneous meta-models; Correspondences; Refinement mechanism

Domaines: Génie logiciel [cs.SE]; Systèmes embarqués; Cryptographie et sécurité [cs.CR]; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]; Architectures Matérielles [cs.AR]; Modélisation et simulation

Mahmoud El Hamlaoui, Bernard Coulette, Sophie Ebersold, Saloua Bennani, Mahmoud Nassar, et al.. Alignment of viewpoint heterogeneous design models: Emergency Department Case Study. 4th International Workshop On the Globalization of Modeling Languages (GEMOC 2016) co-located with ACM/IEEE MODELS 2016, Oct 2016, Saint-Malo, France. pp. 18-27. ⟨hal-01436169⟩