Grégory Nain

Thomas Hartmann, Assaad Moawad, Francois Fouquet et al.

Gaining profound insights from collected data of today's application domains like IoT, cyber-physical systems, health care, or the financial sector is business-critical and can create the next multi-billion dollar market. However, analyzing these data and turning it into valuable insights is a huge challenge. This is often not alone due to the large volume of data but due to an incredibly high domain complexity, which makes it necessary to combine various extrapolation and prediction methods to understand the collected data. Model-driven analytics is a refinement process of raw data driven by a model reflecting deep domain understanding, connecting data, domain knowledge, and learning.

Fouquet Francois, Grégory Nain, Brice Morin et al.

The creation of Domain Specific Languages(DSL) counts as one of the main goals in the field of Model-Driven Software Engineering (MDSE). The main purpose of these DSLs is to facilitate the manipulation of domain specific concepts, by providing developers with specific tools for their domain of expertise. A natural approach to create DSLs is to reuse existing modeling standards and tools. In this area, the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) has rapidly become the defacto standard in the MDSE for building Domain Specific Languages (DSL) and tools based on generative techniques. However, the use of EMF generated tools in domains like Internet of Things (IoT), Cloud Computing or Models@Runtime reaches several limitations. In this paper, we identify several properties the generated tools must comply with to be usable in other domains than desktop-based software systems. We then challenge EMF on these properties and describe our approach to overcome the limitations. Our approach, implemented in the Kevoree Modeling Framework (KMF), is finally evaluated according to the identified properties and compared to EMF.