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DEVELOPING DISTRIBUTED SERVICES USING AN ASPECT ORIENTED MODEL DRIVEN FRAMEWORK

ARNOR SOLBERG

ICT, SINTEF, Forskningsveien 1, Oslo, 0314, Norway

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DEVON SIMMONDS

Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO-80523, USA

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RAGHU REDDY

Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO-80523, USA

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ROBERT FRANCE

Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO-80523, USA

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SUDIPTO GHOSH

Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO-80523, USA

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JAN ØYVIND AAGEDAL

ICT, SINTEF, Forskningsveien 1, Oslo, 0314, Norway

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https://doi.org/10.1142/S0218843006001487Cited by:6 (Source: Crossref)

Abstract

To manage the development of cooperative information systems that support the dynamics and mobility of modern businesses, separation of concern mechanisms and abstractions are needed. Model driven development (MDD) approaches utilize abstraction and transformation to handle complexity. In MDD, specifying transformations between models at various levels of abstraction can be a complex task. Specifying transformations for pervasive system services that are tangled with other system services is particularly difficult because the elements to be transformed are distributed across a model. This paper presents an aspect oriented model driven framework (AOMDF) that facilitates separation of pervasive services and supports their transformation across different levels of abstraction. The framework facilitates composition of pervasive services with enterprise services at various levels of abstraction. The framework is illustrated using an example in which a platform independent model of a banking service is transformed to a platform specific model.

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