TY  - JOUR
A1  - Naujokat, Stefan
A1  - Neubauer, Johannes
A1  - Lamprecht, Anna-Lena
A1  - Steffen, Bernhard
A1  - Joerges, Sven
A1  - Margaria, Tiziana
T1  - Simplicity-first model-based plug-in development
JF  - Software : practice & experience
N2  - In this article, we present our experience with over a decade of strict simplicity orientation in the development and evolution of plug-ins. The point of our approach is to enable our graphical modeling framework jABC to capture plug-in development in a domain-specific setting. The typically quite tedious and technical plug-in development is shifted this way from a programming task to the modeling level, where it can be mastered also by application experts without programming expertise. We show how the classical plug-in development profits from a systematic domain-specific API design and how the level of abstraction achieved this way can be further enhanced by defining adequate building blocks for high-level plug-in modeling. As the resulting plug-in models can be compiled and deployed automatically, our approach decomposes plug-in development into three phases where only the realization phase requires plug-in-specific effort. By using our modeling framework jABC, this effort boils down to graphical, tool-supported process modeling. Furthermore, we support the automatic completion of process sketches for executability. All this will be illustrated along the most recent plug-in-based evolution of the jABC framework, which witnessed quite some bootstrapping effects.
KW  - plug-ins
KW  - simplicity
KW  - domain-specific APIs
KW  - process modeling
KW  - bootstrapping
KW  - evolution
KW  - code generation
KW  - loose programming
KW  - dynamic service binding
Y1  - 2014
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1002/spe.2243
SN  - 0038-0644
SN  - 1097-024X
VL  - 44
IS  - 3
SP  - 277
EP  - 297
PB  - Wiley-Blackwell
CY  - Hoboken
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Giese, Holger
A1  - Henkler, Stefan
A1  - Hirsch, Martin
T1  - A multi-paradigm approach supporting the modular execution of reconfigurable hybrid systems
JF  - Simulation : transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International
N2  - Advanced mechatronic systems have to integrate existing technologies from mechanical, electrical and software engineering. They must be able to adapt their structure and behavior at runtime by reconfiguration to react flexibly to changes in the environment. Therefore, a tight integration of structural and behavioral models of the different domains is required. This integration results in complex reconfigurable hybrid systems, the execution logic of which cannot be addressed directly with existing standard modeling, simulation, and code-generation techniques. We present in this paper how our component-based approach for reconfigurable mechatronic systems, MECHATRONIC UML, efficiently handles the complex interplay of discrete behavior and continuous behavior in a modular manner. In addition, its extension to even more flexible reconfiguration cases is presented.
KW  - code generation
KW  - hybrid systems
KW  - reconfigurable systems
KW  - simulation
Y1  - 2011
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0037549710366824
SN  - 0037-5497
VL  - 87
IS  - 9
SP  - 775
EP  - 808
PB  - Sage Publ.
CY  - London
ER  -