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                    Seminar Announcement

            School of Computer Science, CECS
             The Australian National University
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Date:  Thursday, 30 April 2009
Time:  4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Venue: Room N101, CSIT Building [108]


Speaker: Rainbow Cai, DCS, ANU

Title: Generating Operational Guidelines from ATL Transformations

Abstract:
   Model transformation, a core part of Model Driven Engineering,
   transforms models from one format to another. Model Transformation
   is normally done with transformation languages, such as ATL,
   XSLT, or programming language (e.g. java).  Currently, trans-
   formation programs are written to achieve the basic transformation
   goal, i.e. transforming a model from one format to another.

   As model transformation programs are well-structured information
   and implicitly contain the rationale, the conditions, and the
   results of an intended transformation, we argue that the potential
   of transformation programs needs to be explored to provide
   guidelines for currently isolated operational tasks such as
   detecting semantic inconsistencies, providing behaviour
   synchronisation information, and establishing traceability among
   models.  In this paper, we introduce the CRelation model -
   a generic analysis and design model for model transformation,
   and use the CRelation model to assist the development of ATL
   transformation programs. From within the CRelation model, we
   then use the ATL programs to generate guidelines for the
   operational tasks related to model transformation. We demonstrate
   the feasibility of our approach with a case study and present
   the initial evaluation results. 

Biography:
   Rainbow is a lecturer at the Computer Science Department,
   ANU. She did her PhD in Software Engineering at the Department
   of Computer Science, University of Auckland. She holds
   undergraduate diploma, postgraduate diploma, and master of
   science degree (with honors), all in Computer Science, from
   University of Auckland.

   Rainbow has active research interests in the areas of software
   architecture modelling, software architecture performance
   evaluation, reverse engineering, domain-specific modelling
   language, automated software engineering, visual languages
   and environments, meta-tools for multi-view multi-notation
   design tools, and model transformation and integration. Her
   main areas of interest pertain to software architecture
   modelling, performance engineering, and model transformation
   and integration.

URL: http://cs.anu.edu.au/lib/seminars/seminars09/dept20090430


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