Central Concerns and Questions

Just as automotive vehicles are efficiently assembled from mass-produced parts and sub-assemblies, it should be possible to cultivate an environment in which subsystem models can be automatically validated for compatibility and assembled into system or vehicle models for model-based design and development.

Emerging Ideas and Initiatives

Such a modeling environment would facilitate model reuse over product life cycles, across product families, and across development organizations. Experience has shown that, given sufficient attention to model compatibility, significant reuse can improve quality, reduce development cost, and reduce time-to-market. We modify a architectural modeling tool to perform model compatibility tests and ease reuse.

Selected Publications

[1] Kevin Steppe, David Garlan, Greg Bylenok, Bradley Schmerl, Kanat Abirov, and Nataliya Shevchenko. Tool Support for Model Based Architectural Design for Automotive Control Systems. First European Workshop on Model Driven Architecture with Emphasis on Industrial Application, Enschede, The Netherlands, March 17-19, 2004.