Model-Integrating Software Components

In his study, Mahdi Derakhshanmanesh builds on the state of the art in modeling by proposing to integrate models into running software at the component level without translating them to code. This so-called model-integrating software exploits all the advantages of models: models implicitly support a good separation of concerns, they are self-documenting, and thus improve understandability and maintainability. In contrast to model-driven approaches, there is no synchronization problem between the models and the code generated from them. Using model-integrating components, software will be easier to build and evolve by simply modifying the respective model in an editor. Furthermore, software may also adapt itself at runtime by transforming its own model part.