Model Driven Architecture: Foundations and Applications

This report contains the proceedings of the workshop on Model Driven Architecture: Foundations and Application”, held at the University of Twente on 26-27 June 2003. Model Driven Architecture (MDA) proposed by OMG is an approach based on the separation of the specification of system functionality from the specification of the implementation of that functionality on a specific platform. It is aimed at making the software assets more resilient to changes caused by the emerging technologies and makes the role of modeling and models in the current software development much more important. The MDA initiative covers a wide spectrum of research areas some of them are already well established and some are newly emerged. Further efforts are required to bring them into a coherent approach based on open standards and supported by matured tools and techniques. The goal of this workshop is to understand the foundations, to analyze the state of-the-art, to identify problems and solutions, to outline future research directions and to share experience in applying MDA techniques and tools.