"ModelWare is a success; The European Commission
estimating that the results are very good, especially compared to
to the short time to achieve them. This success has been made possible
only thanks to your effort. I thank you personally for that. This
project has been an exciting and valuable experience for me. I have
appreciated your competences and your team spirit."
Philippe Millot
Thales Research & Technology
In January 2005, the European Commission signed a research
agreement for a two-year, €20m, MODELling solution for softWARE
systems (MODELWARE) project, under the "Information Society Technologies"
Sixth Framework Programme (2002-2006).
Coordinated by Thales, a consortium of 19 partners addressed
the issues of software systems development productivity and next generation
software systems engineering methods and tools: Thales (France), IBM
(UK and Israel), Schlumberger WesternGeco (Norway), France Telecom
(France), Enabler Informática (Portugal), AS Aprote (Estonia), SOFTEAM
(France), SINTEF (Norway), imbus AG (Germany), Adaptive (United Kingdom),
INRIA (France), ESI (Spain), Université Pierre et Marie Curie LIP6
(France), Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (Spain), University of
York (United Kingdom), Fraunhofer FOKUS (Germany) and Zühlke Engineering
(Germany).
The challenge of system and software engineering is
vital for the European economy: pushing the limits of systems complexity
and providing the engineering for the infrastructure of our societies.
The efficiency and competitiveness of practically all economic sectors
depend on high-quality software systems. There is an increasing demand
from end users for better, more complex and more reliable software
systems while, at the same time, there is a requirement to reduce
development time and costs in an ever faster evolving technological
world. Europe needs to respond to these increasing expectations if
it is to maintain its first-rate ranking in the development of complex,
mission-critical software systems.
In the past 20 years, the complexity of software systems
has increased much faster than software development productivity.
MODELWARE aims to reduce this gap by exploiting and capitalising on
the recent scientific and technical advances known as Model-Driven
Development (MDD).
MODELWARE is defining and developing the complete infrastructure
required for large-scale deployment of MDD strategies and validating
it in several business domains. The project combines innovations in
modelling technologies, engineering processes and methodologies, tool
development (both generic and domain specific), standardisation, experimentations
and change management.
The successful adoption of MDD is ensured through communities
of tool providers, open source software contributors and end-users.
In particular, MODELWARE launched the Eclipse
MDDi project aimed at developing an open MDD platform.
For further information, please consult the MODELWARE
website: www.modelware-ist.org
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