Principles and Applications of Model Driven Engineering (1) History and Context of Model Driven Engineering

Abstract

Model driven engineering (MDE) is a set of well defined practices based on tools that use at the same time metamodeling and model transformations, to achieve some automated goals in the production, maintenance or operation of software intensive systems. Although there are a substantial amount of literature on individual technique, it has been difficult to find one that gives a birds eye view on MDE that also covers entire history and background. This series of articles are based on the intensive course given at the National Institute of Informatics by Jean Bézivin who has been leading the field of MDE. We will introduce the history of modeling languages, theories, basic principles, applications and prospects of MDE. In this first article, we will have a look at the past history of modeling languages, and introduce fundamental concepts of MDE.