Abstract
Current technologies are continuously evolving and software companies need to adapt their processes to these changes. Such adaptation often requires new investments in training and development. To address this issue, OMG defined a model driven development approach (MDD) which insulates business and application logic from technology evolution. Current MDD approaches falls short in fully derive implementation from models described at a high abstraction level. We propose a controlled natural language to complement UML models as an action specification language. In this article, we describe the language, its impact on systems development and the tools developed to support it. In order to demonstrate the language usability we present an application example.
An erratum to this chapter can be found at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/11914853_71.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
Similar content being viewed by others
References
Allen, J.: Natural Language Understanding. The Benjamin/Cummings Publishing Company Inc. (1995) ISBN:0-8053-0334-0
AndroMDA: AndroMDA: Getting started (2004), http://www.andromda.org
ANTLR: Another Tool for Language Recognition (2004), http://www.antlr.org/
BridgePoint. Object Action Language (2005) , http://www.acceleratedtechnology.com
Brown, A.W., Conallen, J.: An introduction to model-driven architecture – How MDA affects the iterative development process(2005), http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/rational/library/may05/brown
Bryant, B., Lee, B.S.: Two-Level Grammar as an Object-Oriented Requirements Specification Language. In: XXXV Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, vol. 9, p. 280. IEEE Computer Society, Los Alamitos (2002) ISBN:0-7695-1435-9
Cianni, N.M., Cabeço, T.: Editor for Action Specifications in Controlled Natural Language (2006), http://dataware.nce.ufrj.br:8080/dataware_en
Damn, W., Harel, D.: LSCs: Breathing Life into Message Sequence Charts. Formal Methods in System Design 19, 45–80 (2001) ISSN:0925-9856
Dinh-Trong, T.: JAL: Java like Action Language, Specification 1.1, Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University (October 2005)
EJB: Enterprise Java Beans (2003), http://java.sun.com/products/ejb
Fowler, M., Beck, K., Brant, J., Opdyke, W., Roberts, D.: Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code. Addison-Wesley, Reading (1999) ISBN 0201485672
Hibernate: Hibernate (2006), http://www.hibernate.org/
Kabira: Kabira Action Semantics (2002), http://www.kabira.com
Kleppe, A., Warmer, J.: Extending OCL to include actions. In: International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language, pp. 440–450 (2000)
Kleppe, A., Warmer, J., Bast, W.: MDA Explained: The Model Driven Architecture: Practice and Promise. Addison-Wesley, Reading (2002)
Leal, L.N., Pires, P.F., Campos, M.L.M.: An Action Specification Language based on Controlled Natural Language. In: Proceedings of XX Brazilian Symposium on Programming Languages, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (2006) (in portuguese)
Leal, L.N.: Natural MDA: An action specification language based on controlled natural language, Ms Thesis, UFRJ, Brazil (2006), http://dataware.nce.ufrj.br:8080/dataware_en/public/thesi/ObservationalStudy
Leonardi, M.C., Mauco, M.V.: Integrating Natural Language Oriented Requirements Models into MDA. In: Workshop on Requirements Engineering, Argentina (2004), http://www.sigmod.org/dblp/dp/conf/wer/wer2004.html
Linhalis, F., Moreira, D.A.: Execution of Imperative Natural Language Requisitions Based on UNL Interlingua and Software Components. In: International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS) (2005)
McNeile, A., Simons, N.: Methods of behaviour modeling: a commentary on behaviour modeling techniques for MDA (2004), http://wwwmetamaxim.com/download/documents/Methods.pdf
Mellor, S.J., et al.: Software-Platform-Independent, Precise Action Specifications for UML. In: Proceeding of UML 1998 (1998)
Mosses, P.D.: Theory and Practice of Action Semantics, BRICS Report Series. RS-96-53. (December 1996) ISSN 0909-0878
OMG, Action Semantics for the UML – Request for Proposal (1999), http://www.omg.org/docs/ad/98-11-01.pdf
OMG, Action Semantics Consortium, Action semantics for the UML (2001), http://www.omg.org/docs/ad/2001-03-01
Pender, T.: UML Bible. Wiley Publishers, Chichester (2003) ISBN: 0-7645-2604-9
Rational: Rational Unified Process V7.0 Evaluation (2006), http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/downloads/r/rup
Selonen, P., Systa, T., Koskimies, K.: Generating Structured Implementation Schemes from UML Sequence Diagrams. In: Proceedings of TOOLS USA, Santa Barbara, California, USA, July-August 2001, pp. 317–328. IEEE Computer Society Press, Los Alamitos (2001)
Silva, S.R.P., Souza, C.S.: The Definition of an End-User Programming Language for Extensible Applications. In: Proceedings of V Symposium on Human Factors in Computer Systems, Fortaleza, Brazil, vol. 1, pp. 72–83 (2002)
String Template: String Template (2005), http://www.stringtemplate.org/
Ushida, H., Zhu, M.: The Universal Networking Language beyond Machine Translation. In: International Symposium on Language and Cyberspace (September 2001)
Visual Rules: Visual Rules (2006), http://www.visual-rules.de
Visula: The Visula Programming Language (2004), http://visula.org
Warmer, J., Kleppe, A.: The Object Constraint Language - Getting Your Models Ready for MDA. Addison-Wesley, Reading (2003) ISBN: 0-321-17936-6
Wilkie, I., et al.: ASL Manual, Kennedy Carter Ltd (2001), http://www.kc.com
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2006 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Leal, L.N., Pires, P.F., Campos, M.L.M., Delicato, F.C. (2006). Natural MDA: Controlled Natural Language for Action Specifications on Model Driven Development. In: Meersman, R., Tari, Z. (eds) On the Move to Meaningful Internet Systems 2006: CoopIS, DOA, GADA, and ODBASE. OTM 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4275. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11914853_33
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/11914853_33
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-540-48287-1
Online ISBN: 978-3-540-48289-5
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)