Rathod, V R; Shah, S M; Modi, Nileshkumar K.(INFLIBNET Centre, February 2, 2005)
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Abstract:
The UniFrame approach to component-based software development assumes that concrete
components are developed from a meta-model, called the Unified Meta- component Model,
according to standardized business domain models. Implicit in this development is that
there is a Platform Independent Model (PIM) which is transformed into a Platform Specific
Model (PSM) under the principles of Model-Driven Architecture. This paper advocates natural
language as the starting point for developing the business domain models and the meta-model
and shows how this natural language may be mapped through the PIM to PSM using
a formal system of rules expressed in Two-Level Grammar. This allows software requirements
to be progressed from business logic to implementation of components and provides
sufficient automation that components may be modified at the model level, or even the
natural language requirements level, as opposed to the code level.