Practical Applications of Model-Driven Engineering

A special issue of Electronics (ISSN 2079-9292). This special issue belongs to the section "Systems & Control Engineering".

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Department of Information Engineering, Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, 89124 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Interests: IoT; critical requirements; model-driven; system modeling; formal assessment; simulation
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Department of Information Engineering, Infrastructure and Sustainable Energy, University Mediterranea of Reggio Calabria, 89124 Reggio Calabria, Italy
Interests: software engineering; security analysis; cybersecurity

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Dear Colleagues,

Model-driven engineering (MDE) began as a software development methodology but has since been extended to a wide range of applications, also in the science of electronics and its applications. MDE promotes the usage of high-level and domain-specific modeling languages together with automatic transformations to improve all the activities during the development lifecycle.

This Special Issue will be a forum to share practical applications of MDE and concrete experiences in information and control systems, both in critical and non-critical domains. In this context, we are envisaging works covering one or more of the following topics:

  • Systems and control engineering;
  • Critical systems;
  • Computer science and engineering;
  • Communications & information processing;
  • Bioelectronics;
  • Dependability assessment;
  • Security analysis;
  • Automatic generation of formal models;
  • Quantitative analysis;
  • Practical application and experience.

Dr. Vincenzo De Angelis
Dr. Roberto Nardone
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • Domain-specific modeling languages
  • Domain models
  • Abstract representations of the knowledge
  • Model-to-model transformation
  • Model-to-text transformation
  • Dependability
  • Security

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Manufacturing Execution Systems for the Food and Beverage Industry: A Model-Driven Approach
by Xinyu Chen, Christoph Nophut and Tobias Voigt
Electronics 2020, 9(12), 2040; https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics9122040 - 02 Dec 2020
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Abstract
Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) are process-oriented information-technology (IT) solutions for collecting and managing information from manufacturing processes. Due to the individual programming effort and the complex integration with other manufacturing systems, though the food and beverage manufacturers can benefit from the MES, its [...] Read more.
Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) are process-oriented information-technology (IT) solutions for collecting and managing information from manufacturing processes. Due to the individual programming effort and the complex integration with other manufacturing systems, though the food and beverage manufacturers can benefit from the MES, its implementation is not widespread in this industry. To simplify the implementation and engineering process, the concept of model-driven engineering (MDE) is considered as a solution. However, a feasible model-driven approach for MES engineering has not been established, not to mention for the food and beverage industry. This paper presents an approach for the automatic MES generation according to the MDE concept providing MES functions that are relevant to the food and beverage manufacturing processes primarily. It consists of necessary phases to cover the whole engineering process of the MES. Based on the application of the presented approach to the brewing process in a brewhouse, the feasibility and practicality of this approach were proven. Full article
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