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Lecturer: dr. Natalia Sidorova Credits: 5 ECTS (=140 hours) |
Timetable:
Semester A, quartile 1 Time for questions about the assignment: TBD Written examination: November 2, 2017, 9:00 – 12:00 |
The grade for the course is the grade
for the written examination. You can earn up to one bonus point for your grade by
doing your homework regularly and
well (the maximal grade you can obtain for the course is still 10).
Submit your homework via Canvas (canvas.tue.nl) before the
indicated deadlines. Note that in most of the cases the format of homework
submission is indicated to be PowerPoint.
Lecture slides can be found at Canvas (canvas.tue.nl)
Reading materials: You will find the links to a
selection of papers in the table below. Some of the links can
only be used when you are at the TU/e campus, or by using VPN
or the library
proxy server.
The
table below gives an approximate planning; it may still change!
|
No |
Lecture date |
Subject |
Reading materials |
Homework |
|
1 |
September
4 |
Introduction
to Metamodeling |
1. J. Ludewig,
Models
in software engineering – an introduction. Software and Systems Modeling,
2(1), 2003, pp. 5-14. 2. Thomas Kühne,
Matters
of (Meta-) Modeling. Software and Systems Modeling, 5(4), 2006, pp.
369-385. 3. W. Hesse, More
matters on (meta-)modelling: remarks on Thomas Kühne’s “matters”. Software and Systems Modeling,
5(4), 2006, pp. 387-394. 4. Thomas Kühne,
Clarifying
matters of (meta-) modeling: an author’s reply. Software and Systems
Modeling, 5(4), 2006, pp. 395-401. |
1. Read the four papers from
the list of reading materials for Lecture 1 in the indicated order. 2. For each of the papers [1]
and [2], write down four statements which you find most interesting/
important/ arguable, clearly explaining to which of the three types
(interesting, important or/and arguable) it belongs to in your opinion and
why (max one page per paper). 3. Give two examples of models which are in your view not metamodels,
and two examples of metamodels; at least one model
and one metamodel should be from the area of
Computer Science. You are not allowed to directly
use the examples from the papers. Explain why you consider them as metamodels (not just models). Deadline:
September 7, 11 p.m. |
|
2 |
September
7 |
Basics
of Metamodeling |
1. Eclipse tutorial by Luis
Pedro, Matteo Risoldi, Centre Universitaire
D'Informatique, Universite
de Geneve, SMV technical report series, May 2008 – use
the annotated version of it from Canvas (thanks to Maikel van Eck) 3.
Colin
Atkinson, Thomas Kühne. Model-Driven
Development: A Metamodeling
Foundation, IEEE Software, 20(5), 2003. 4.
MOF core
specification |
1. Read the annotated version
of tutorial “Metamodeling with Eclipse” and then execute all the steps
described in the tutorial Eclipse. Please use the
annotated version of this tutorial which you can
find on Canvas (folder Reading Materials). For questions, contact Maikel van Eck. 2. Correct the metamodel of Petri nets from the lecture slides. 3. Show how MOF is an instance
of MOF itself, by mapping model elements to each other. 4. Indicate three mistakes / incompletenesses /imprecisenesses
in the UML metamodel from the slides. Explain how
they can be repaired, if they can; If not – explain why not. 5. What modification of the
model and the metamodel you could make to
accommodate the possibility to use synchronous communication when composing
Petri net components? You only send
me the answers for tasks 2 and 4 with one slide per task in PowerPoint in the
format of the lecture slides. Deadline: September 10, 11 p.m. |
|
3 |
September
11 |
Metamodeling
exercises |
Lecture slides |
1. Create metamodels
for exercises 1-2 in the PowerPoint format: one model per
slide. Deadline: September 16, 11 p.m. |
|
4 |
September
14 |
Declarative
modeling style on the case of Declare |
1. M. Pesic and W.M.P. van der Aalst. A
Declarative Approach for Flexible Business Processes. In J. Eder
and S. Dustdar, editors, Business Process
Management Workshops, Workshop on Dynamic Process Management (DPM 2006),
volume 4103 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 169-180. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2006. 2. M. Pesic.
Constraint-Based
Workflow Management Systems: Shifting Control to Users. PhD
dissertation, Eindhoven University of Technology, 2008. |
1. Submit metamodels
for exercises 3-4 in the PowerPoint
format: one model per slide. 2. Consider the description of
Declare given in the lecture slides. Make a metamodel of Declare according to this description. List the
imprecisions and ambiguities in the description (in case there are any) and
explain which interpretation you gave to them in your metamodel. List the
constraints given in the description that you could not capture in your metamodel (if there are any). Deadline: September 20, 11 p.m. |
|
5 |
September
18 |
Metamodeling
and model transformations |
1. Lecture slides |
Finish
the previous homework |
|
6 |
September
21 (an
online tutorial, no lecture because of MomenTum) |
Henshin tutorial |
1. https://www.eclipse.org/henshin/ 2. Materials at Canvas 3. Thorsten Arendt, Enrico
Biermann, Stefan Jurack, Christian Krause, Gabriele Taentzer: Henshin: Advanced Concepts and Tools for
In-place EMF Model Transformations. Proceedings of MoDELS'10, LNCS
6394, 121-135, Springer-Verlag, 2010. |
1. Exercises on model
transformations – see Canvas Deadline:
September 28, 11 p.m. |
|
7 |
September
25 |
Metamodeling
exercises |
Lecture
slides only – at Canvas |
Finish
the previous homework |
|
8 |
September
28 |
Service
orientation and interoperability. Open
nets for modeling and analysis of service orchestrations |
Recommended,
but optional: •
Thomas
Erl. Service-Oriented Architecture: Concepts,
Technology, and Design. Prentice Hall 2005 See http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/
for more information on SOA |
You can practice at home
with old exams – tasks 1 – 3 (it is not part of the homework that counts for
a bonus point) |
|
9 |
October
2 |
Model
transformation exercises |
Lecture
slides only – at Canvas |
You can practice at home
with old exams – tasks 1 – 3 (it is not part of the homework that counts for
a bonus point) |
|
10 |
October
5 |
Operating
guidelines |
Niels Lohmann, Peter Massuthe, and Karsten Wolf. Operating
Guidelines for Finite-State Services. In volume 4546 of Lecture Notes in
Computer Science, pages 321–341, June 2007. Springer-Verlag. |
You can practice at home
with old exams – tasks 1 – 3 (it is not part of the homework that counts for
a bonus point) |
|
11 |
October
9 |
Adapters:
specification, construction and analysis |
Gierds, C.;
Mooij, A.J.; Wolf, K. Reducing
Adapter Synthesis to Controller Synthesis. IEEE Transactions on Services
Computing, vol.5, no.1, pp.72-85, Jan.-March 2012 |
1.
Exercises partner construction a, b, c, d – see Canvas 2.
Exercises adapters 1, 2, 3 – see Canvas Deadline: October
15, 11 p.m. |
|
12 |
October
12 |
Model
selection, comparison, integration, … |
See
the slides at Canvas |
Finish
the previous homework |
|
13 |
October
16 |
Exercise
session: operating guidelines + adapters |
See the slides and
additional exercises at Canvas |
Old
exams – see Canvas |
|
14 |
TBD:
October 19 or 23 (question
hour) |
Solve
the problems from old exams and prepare your questions. |
Old
exams – see Canvas |