CoSMIC: An MDA Generative Tool for Distributed Real-time and Embedded Component Middleware and Applications

TLDR

The paper presents three contributions addressing challenges of applying OMG Model Driven Architecture to develop and deploy distributed real‑time and embedded applications, and outlines the challenges in developing CoSMIC. CoSMIC, an MDA tool grounded in the Model Integrated Computing paradigm, uses generative capabilities to configure and assemble the component middleware needed to deploy distributed real‑time and embedded applications. Based on experience developing MIC tools and DRE middleware, the authors believe that combining these paradigms will yield significant advantages in developing model‑based DRE applications.

Abstract

This paper presents three contributions to the challenges of applying the OMG Model Driven Architecture (MDA) to develop and deploy distributed real-time and embedded (DRE) applications. First, we motivate our MDA tool called CoSMIC, which is based on the Model Integrated Computing (MIC) paradigm that provides the intellectual foundation for MDA. Second, we describe how CoSMIC’s generative abilities can be used to configure and assemble DRE component middleware required to deploy DRE applications. Third, we delineate the challenges involved in developing CoSMIC. Based on our collective experience developing MIC tools and DRE middleware, we are confident that combining these two paradigms will yield significant advantages in developing model based DRE applications.