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[Marc SCHAEFER]

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13.9. Recent trends in MDE: Principles, Standards, Platforms and Applications
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Referent:
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Jean Bézivin, University of Nantes, France

Abstract:
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Many projects, like the European ModelWare IP, are currently investigating 
the applicability of Model Driven Engineering (MDE) to change the current 
practices of software development and maintenance.
The presentation will discuss recent trends in MDE related to principles, 
standards, platforms and applications. The concepts of systems, models and 
technical spaces will be shown to found the basis of this new proposal 
together with the relations of "representation" and "conformance". The 
presentation will emphasize two current interpretations of MDE, one based 
on a monolithic unifed formalism like UML 2.0 and the other one based on a 
variety of small well focused metamodels, each defining a given DSL (Domain 
Specific Language). Advantages and drawbacks of each method will be 
discussed.

Bio:
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Jean Bézivin is a professor of Computer Science at the University of 
Nantes, France. He got his Master degree from the University of Grenoble 
and PhD from the University of Rennes before spending several years, as an 
assistant professor, at the University of Brest. He also spent a year as a 
research fellow at the Queen's University of Belfast (Northern Ireland) and 
one year at the Concordia University of Montreal (Canada).

He has been very active in Europe in the object-oriented community, 
starting the ECOOP series of conference (with Pierre Cointe), the TOOLS 
series of conferences (with Bertrand Meyer) and more recently (with 
Pierre-Alain Muller) the <> series of conferences now renamed "MoDELS" for 
"MoDel Engineering, Languages and Systems" . He also organized several 
workshops at OOPSLA and ECOOP conferences like in 1995 on "Use Case 
Technology" and more recently in 1998 and 2000 on "Model engineering". He 
started in 1979 at the University of Nantes, one of the first Master 
programs in Software Engineering entirely devoted to Object Technology 
(Data Bases, Concurrency, Languages and Programming, Analysis and Design, 
etc.).

Jean Bézivin is a member of the new ATLAS INRIA team created in Nantes and 
is currently leading at INRIA many research activities related to model 
driven engineering.