Two Lines of
Research
To align the project with
international standardization activities, two lines of research are set out by the project:
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one is in line with the MDA
development (www.omg.org/mda) and aims at researching methods and techniques for platform
independent design of
services and relating different platform independent designs;
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the other one is in line with the
Semantic Web development (www.w3.org/2001/sw)
and aims at developing a conceptual framework for
developing design techniques.
Research Activities
The activities that we plan to carry
out along these lines are shown in the figure below.
The figure shows from top to bottom how the
research will progress for both lines.
The Platform Independent Design Line of
research starts out with a State-of-the-Art study, based on which it will
identify basic concepts for Service-oriented Design. These basic concepts will
later on be specialized to form concepts for both enterprise design and
enterprise application design. We consider these forms of design specific
viewpoints in a platform independent design that may be related.
The Conceptual Framework Line of research
starts out with the development of a language for meta-modeling. Then we
develop an approach for the development of domain specific languages that we
apply to create enterprise and application design languages.
The relation between the lines of research
is such that the meta-modeling language from the conceptual framework line is
used in the platform independent design line. Furthermore, the development of
the viewpoint specific design models and languages is performed jointly along
the two lines.
