Integration of a graph-based model indexer in commercial modelling tools

TY - GEN

T1 - Integration of a graph-based model indexer in commercial modelling tools

AU - Garcia-Dominguez, Antonio

AU - Barmpis, Konstantinos

AU - Kolovos, Dimitrios S.

AU - Da Silva, Marcos Aurelio Almeida

AU - Abherve, Antonin

AU - Bagnato, Alessandra

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PY - 2016/10/2

Y1 - 2016/10/2

N2 - Softeam has over 20 years of experience providing UML-based modelling solutions, such as its Modelio modelling tool, and its Constellation enterprise model management and collaboration environment. Due to the increasing number and size of the models used by Softeam's clients, Softeam joined the MONDO FP7 EU research project, which worked on solutions for these scalability challenges and produced the Hawk model indexer among other results. This paper presents the technical details and several case studies on the integration of Hawk into Softeam's toolset. The first case study measured the performance of Hawk's Modelio support using varying amounts of memory for the Neo4j backend. In another case study, Hawk was integrated into Constellation to provide scalable global querying of model repositories. Finally, the combination of Hawk and the Epsilon Generation Language was compared against Modelio for document generation: for the largest model, Hawk was two orders of magnitude faster.

AB - Softeam has over 20 years of experience providing UML-based modelling solutions, such as its Modelio modelling tool, and its Constellation enterprise model management and collaboration environment. Due to the increasing number and size of the models used by Softeam's clients, Softeam joined the MONDO FP7 EU research project, which worked on solutions for these scalability challenges and produced the Hawk model indexer among other results. This paper presents the technical details and several case studies on the integration of Hawk into Softeam's toolset. The first case study measured the performance of Hawk's Modelio support using varying amounts of memory for the Neo4j backend. In another case study, Hawk was integrated into Constellation to provide scalable global querying of model repositories. Finally, the combination of Hawk and the Epsilon Generation Language was compared against Modelio for document generation: for the largest model, Hawk was two orders of magnitude faster.

KW - Model fragmentation

KW - Model querying

KW - Model-driven engineering

KW - Scalability

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85008462709&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1145/2976767.2976809

DO - 10.1145/2976767.2976809

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:85008462709

SP - 340

EP - 350

BT - Proceedings - 19th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, MODELS 2016

PB - ACM

T2 - 19th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, MODELS 2016

Y2 - 2 October 2016 through 7 October 2016

ER -