Objectives

The main objective of this project is to provide the industry with the methodology and tools to apply model driven architectures and related technologies and to contribute to industrial standardisation bodies in order to obtain standards suitable for telecommunications applications.

Furthermore to advance the current state-of-the-art by doing research in areas that have not been addressed so far, like business modelling, QoS awareness, model transformations and their traceability, and UML improvements.

MODA-TEL is a joint effort of European telecommunication network operators, service providers, tool vendors, systems integrators and academia with the objective to advance the software engineering practices, specifically addressing the telecommunications domain in which systems and services are very complex and heterogeneous, requiring always legacy integration. The detailed objectives are:

To assess the foundation of MDA by identifying the relevant key technologies and the available tool support
To identify the core ingredients and technologies of a deployable MDA and to identify the relationships between these ingredients and technologies
To develop and deliver a methodology for the application of MDA technologies
To develop and specify a formalism for model transformation techniques
To apply the MDA methodology on telecom specific applications, including platform independent models for these applications
To specify and prototype tool extensions to support necessary steps in the software development process and information integration
To specify the tool chain (extensions) supporting the automation of the software development and operation processes, as well as information integration and management
To actually apply the methodology and the tool chain on the telecom specific applications
Conduct research on the identified open issues stemming from the assessment of the foundations of MDA
Influence the OMG MDA standardisation where appropriate.