Application of MDA Concepts and Technologies in Simulation System Development

Model Driven Architecture(MDA)integrates a coherent set of standards and techniques such as the U- nified Modeling Language(UML),Meta Object Facility(MOF),Extensible Markup Language(XML)and XML- based Metadate Interchange),and emphasizes the fundamental role of models in software development.The paper briefly analyzes several typical model development and execution process models developed and used in modeling and simulation(MS)and software engineering,generalizes simulation system development as a phased process mainly including requirement engineering,analysis,design,implementation and experimentation;discusses the application of the Model Driven Architecture(MDA)concepts and technologies(including models,technologies for model con- struction,transformation,and automatic code generation)in the development of simulation systems.A subset of mod- eling and simulation results is presented for a traffic simulation example,demonstrating the feasibility of integrating MDA with simulation system development and showing that the application of MDA concepts and technologies facili- tates the development of simulation systems with support of the MDA-compliant tool.