Business Rules Separation and Reuse Using MDA, OWL and AspectJ

Abstract— Two important challenges for MDA designers are to make business rules independent of the specific platform model and to ensure the resulting implementation does not violate the specified properties in the application domain. In this paper we present an approach that allows developers to both describe and corroborate domain properties at run time. In our approach, an ontology specifies domain properties and translates it to aspect-oriented code. The implementation code could be automatically merged. As a result, we will be able to perform approval tests at runtime and to create business rules reused in other MDA specific models. This novel approach shall be evaluates in a toolkit for reengineering an industrial furnace management application.

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Proposta de uma Arquitetura para o Gerenciamento de Regras de Negócio em LPS com Base na MDA

 Abstract. Are upheld in the SPL domain all business rules that define semantics links between entities for its completeness. By any change in business needs implies to keep of these rules up-to-date and is necessary to fix several application code to realize manually the necessary repair, making it a hard work for developers. The purpose of this works to create a new boarding to support software products in front of constant changes of business rules in this scenario, with thought at the reference architecture to manage them.

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Separação e Validação de Regras de Negócio MDA através de Ontologias e Orientação à Aspectos

Abstract. Two important challenges for MDA designers are to make business rules independent of the platform specific model and to ensure that the resulting implementation does not violate the properties within these business rules. In this paper we present an approach that allows developers to both describe and verify domain properties at run time. In our approach, an ontology specifies domain properties that are translated to aspect-oriented code. This code is automatically merged in the implementation. As a result, we are able to execute validation tests at runtime and to generate business rules that can be reused in other MDA specific models. We evaluated our approach and toolkit by successfully reengineering an industrial furnace management application.

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OWLtoAspectJ: Uma Ferramenta para Transformação de Regras Conceituais de Domínio em Aspectos

Abstract. The axioms are rules or affirmations of the truth on concepts and its creation is essential to carry through inferences on ontology. The axioms when generated for a programming language provoke one high coupling degree, making impracticable its reuse of the rules in other models. This work aims at to separate the axioms of the platform specific model. A tool was constructed to transform the axioms from OWL format to aspects. Thus, the business rules can be reused in other MDA specific models within the Java platform automatically.

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Formal Verification of an Application Domain using MDA and OWL

Abstract— The applications conceptual models, during the requirements identification phase, uses an independent platform model for abstract a great part of the system specification without a formal verification, be either syntactic or semantic. This paper proposes an architecture for constructing MDA models using OWL (Ontology Web Language) formalizing concepts about application domain and reducing the time of models.

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USANDO ONTOLOGIAS NA CONSTRUÇÃO DE MODELOS MDA (MODEL-DRIVEN ARCHITECTURE)

Abstract. The domain of an application, during the requirements identification, uses a platform independent class model the which that it destines, abstracting good part of the specification of a system without a formal verification, be either syntactic or semantic. This article proposes an architecture for use of ontology in the construction of MDA models formalizing its concepts and reducing the time of maintenances in models during its specification for one determined domain.

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