The relevance of model-driven engineering thirty years from now

International audienceAlthough model-driven engineering (MDE) is now an established approach for developing complex software systems, it has not been universally adopted by the software industry. In order to better understand the reasons for this, as well as to identify future opportunities for MDE, we carried out a week-long design thinking experiment with 15 MDE experts. Participants were facilitated to identify the biggest problems with current MDE technologies, to identify grand challenges for society in the near future, and to identify ways that MDE could help to address these challenges. The outcome is a reflection of the current strengths of MDE, an outlook of the most pressing challenges for society at large over the next three decades, and an analysis of key future MDE research opportunities

Planning support for enterprise changes

Part 3: Change Management and TransformationInternational audienceEnterprises have to react to changes with an increasing speed in order to stay competitive. Many approaches support the modeling of enterprise architectures but lack an evolution of enterprise architectures through demonstrating a transformation path from one architecture state to another. Enterprises know their strategic goals and are able to model them, but are not supported towards achieving these goals in terms of developing their architecture. We want to improve the current manual creation of the transformation paths in enterprise architecture planning by providing possible and sound sequences of actions as part of a roadmap from the current to a desired target architecture.Therefore, we present a solution that supports the enterprise architect with proposals for a transformation path from the current to the target state considering dependencies to be taken into account during the enterprise transformation

Umweltchemikalien/Schadstoffwirkungen. Errichtung und Betrieb einer Demonstrationsanlage zur umweltfreundlichen Herstellung von Hydrotalcit Abschlussbericht

By this intention it is shown that the results achieved at lab and pilot plant size can be applied to the demonstration plant for an environmentally friendly production of Hydrotalcite. It was possible to obtain the predicted savings concerning energy and water. Also, the objective regarding the sewage results is achieved. Along with the utilization of Hydrotalcite as stabilizer for the PVC processing, there are further market potentials for the stabilization of polyolefin as well as the medium-range application possibilities for basic catalysts. (orig.)SIGLEAvailable from TIB Hannover: RO2148(2014) / FIZ - Fachinformationszzentrum Karlsruhe / TIB - Technische InformationsbibliothekBundesministerium fuer Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit, Berlin (Germany)DEGerman

Exemplifying a Framework for Interrelating Enterprise Architecture Concerns

Abstract. In recent years, enterprise architecture (EA) management has gained increasing attention as means to support enterprises in adapting to changing markets and in seizing new business opportunities. A multitude of approaches and frameworks making prescriptions on how to document the different states of the EA have been developed. These approaches target different purposes and correspondingly different concerns (areas of interest) in the architecture. Hence, an enterprise seeking to develop or evolve an organization-specific EA documentation technique most likely runs into difficulties to understand the interdependencies between different frameworks and approaches. The paper addresses the aforementioned challenge by presenting a framework for EA concern interrelations, which can be used to systematically analyze the concern relationships of different approaches. The applicability of the framework is demonstrated by means of a case study from the automotive industry, in which the framework is used for the development and enhancement of an EA description for risk management. 1 Introduction an