David S. Frankel

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David S. Frankel (born 1950) is an American Information Technology expert and consultant, known for his work on model-driven engineering ^[1]^[2] and semantic information modeling.^[3]^[4]

Model-driven engineering (MDE) is a software development methodology that focuses on creating and exploiting domain models, which are conceptual models of all the topics related to a specific problem. Hence, it highlights and aims at abstract representations of the knowledge and activities that govern a particular application domain, rather than the computing concepts.

Biography

Frankel obtained his BS in Mathematics from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, and sequentially his Master of Social Work at the same university.

The Master of Social Work (MSW) is a master's degree in the field of social work. It is a professional degree with specializations compared to Bachelor of Social Work (BSW). MSW promotes macro-, meso- and micro-aspects of professional social work practice, whereas the BSW focuses more on direct social work practices in community, hospitals and other fields of social services.

Frankel started his career in the software industry in the 1970s, developing software tool for HP 2100 mini-computers and became senior Programmer-Analyst. In 1982 he started as independent consultant participating in the development of Local area network-based database applications. He was Enterprise Architect for several companies, and was Lead Standards Architect in the domain of Model-Driven Systems at SAP Labs in California from 2005 to 2012, and independent consultant ever since.

The HP 2100 was a series of 16-bit minicomputers produced by Hewlett-Packard (HP) from the mid-1960s to early 1990s. Tens of thousands of machines in the series were sold over its twenty-five year lifetime, making HP the fourth largest minicomputer vendor during the 1970s.

A local area network (LAN) is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a residence, school, laboratory, university campus or office building. By contrast, a wide area network (WAN) not only covers a larger geographic distance, but also generally involves leased telecommunication circuits.

SAP SE is a German-based European multinational software corporation that makes enterprise software to manage business operations and customer relations. SAP is headquartered in Walldorf, Baden-Württemberg, Germany with regional offices in 180 countries. The company has over 425,000 customers in over 180 countries. The company is a component of the Euro Stoxx 50 stock market index.

Frankel has been on the Architecture Board of the Object Management Group (OMG) for a long time.^[5] In 2003 he published his most cited work "Model Driven Architecture: Applying Mda to Enterprise Computing."

The Object Management Group (OMG) is a computer industry standards consortium. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a range of technologies.

Selected publications

Frankel, David S. Model Driven Architecture Applying Mda to Enterprise Computing. John Wiley & Sons, 2003.
Parodi, John, and David S. Frankel. The MDA journal: model driven architecture straight from the masters. Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2004.

Articles, a selection:

David S. Frankel, Harmon, P., Mukerji, J., Odell, J., Owen, M., Rivitt, P., Rosen, M... & Soley, R. M. et al. (2003) "The Zachman Framework and the OMG's Model Driven Architecture," Business Process Trends, 9 (2003).
Frankel, David S. "The MDA marketing message and the MDA reality." MDA Journal, a Business Process Trends Column (2004).
Frankel, David S., et al. "A Model-Driven Semantic Web: Reinforcing Complementary Strengths." MDA Journal, Business Process Trends (2004).
Frankel, D., Hayes, P., Kendall, E., & McGuinness, D. (2004). "The model driven semantic web." In 1st International Workshop on the Model-Driven Semantic Web (MDSW2004), Monterey, California, USA.

Paul Harmon is an American management consultant, author and analyst, known for his work in the field of Expert systems in the 1980s, and more recently on Business process management (BPM).

Michael (Mike) Rosen is an American enterprise architect, and management consultant, known for his work on Common Object Request Broker Architecture (1998), and Applying service-oriented architecture.

Related Research Articles

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Model-driven architecture (MDA) is a software design approach for the development of software systems. It provides a set of guidelines for the structuring of specifications, which are expressed as models. Model-driven architecture is a kind of domain engineering, and supports model-driven engineering of software systems. It was launched by the Object Management Group (OMG) in 2001.

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ATL is a model transformation language and toolkit developed and maintained by OBEO and AtlanMod. It was initiated by the AtlanMod team. In the field of Model-Driven Engineering (MDE), ATL provides ways to produce a set of target models from a set of source models.

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The UML profile for Enterprise Distributed Object Computing (EDOC) is a standard of the Object Management Group in support of open distributed computing using model-driven architecture and service-oriented architecture. Its aim is to simplify the development of component based (EDOC) systems by providing a UML-based modeling framework conforming to the MDA of the OMG.

Knowledge Discovery Metamodel (KDM) is a publicly available specification from the Object Management Group (OMG). KDM is a common intermediate representation for existing software systems and their operating environments, that defines common metadata required for deep semantic integration of Application Lifecycle Management tools. KDM was designed as the OMG's foundation for software modernization, IT portfolio management and software assurance. KDM uses OMG's Meta-Object Facility to define an XMI interchange format between tools that work with existing software as well as an abstract interface (API) for the next-generation assurance and modernization tools. KDM standardizes existing approaches to knowledge discovery in software engineering artifacts, also known as software mining.

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The Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR) is an adopted standard of the Object Management Group (OMG) intended to be the basis for formal and detailed natural language declarative description of a complex entity, such as a business. SBVR is intended to formalize complex compliance rules, such as operational rules for an enterprise, security policy, standard compliance, or regulatory compliance rules. Such formal vocabularies and rules can be interpreted and used by computer systems. SBVR is an integral part of the OMG's model-driven architecture (MDA).

BORO is an approach to developing ontological or semantic models for large complex operational applications that consists of a top ontology as well as a process for constructing the ontology. It was originally developed as a method for mining ontologies from multiple legacy systems – as the first stage in an architectural transformation or software modernization. It has also been used to enable semantic interoperability between legacy systems. It is described in detail in. It is the analysis method used in the development and maintenance of the U.S. Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DoDAF) Meta Model (DM2), where a data modeling working group of over 350 members was able to systematically resolve a broad spectrum of knowledge representation issues.

The Ontology Definition MetaModel (ODM) is an Object Management Group (OMG) specification to make the concepts of Model-Driven Architecture applicable to the engineering of ontologies. Hence, it links Common Logic (CL), the Web Ontology Language (OWL), and the Resource Description Framework (RDF).

Ontology engineering in computer science, information science and systems engineering is a field which studies the methods and methodologies for building ontologies: formal representations of a set of concepts within a domain and the relationships between those concepts. A large-scale representation of abstract concepts such as actions, time, physical objects and beliefs would be an example of ontological engineering. Ontology engineering is one of the areas of applied ontology, and can be seen as an application of philosophical ontology. Core ideas and objectives of ontology engineering are also central in conceptual modeling.

An Executable Architecture (EA), in general, is the description of a system architecture in a formal notation together with the tools that allow the automatic or semi-automatic generation of artifacts from that notation and which are used in the analysis, refinement, and/or the implementation of the architecture described.

Model Driven Interoperability (MDI) is a methodological framework, which provides a conceptual and technical support to make interoperable enterprises using ontologies and semantic annotations, following model driven development (MDD) principles.

OntoUML is a ontologically well-founded language for Ontology-driven Conceptual Modeling. OntoUML is built as a UML extension based on the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO). The foundations of UFO and OntoUML can be traced back to Giancarlo Guizzardi's Ph.D. thesis "Ontological foundations for structural conceptual models". In his work, he proposed a novel foundational ontology for conceptual modeling (UFO) and employed it to evaluate and re-design a fragment of the UML 2.0 metamodel for the purposes of conceptual modeling and domain ontology engineering.

The Open Semantic Framework (OSF) is an integrated software stack using semantic technologies for knowledge management. It has a layered architecture that combines existing open source software with additional open source components developed specifically to provide a complete Web application framework. OSF is made available under the Apache 2 license.

Menthor Editor is a free ontology engineering tool for dealing with OntoUML models. It also includes OntoUML syntax validation, Alloy simulation, Anti-Pattern verification, and MDA transformations from OntoUML to OWL, SBVR and Natural Language.

References

↑ Kleppe, Anneke G., Jos B. Warmer, and Wim Bast. MDA explained: the model driven architecture: practice and promise. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003.
↑ Buschmann, Frank, Kelvin Henney, and Douglas Schimdt. Pattern-oriented Software Architecture: On Patterns and Pattern Language. Vol. 5. John Wiley & Sons, 2007.
↑ Brockmans, Saartje, et al. "A model driven approach for building OWL DL and OWL full ontologies." The Semantic Web-ISWC 2006. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. 187-200.
↑ Parreiras, Fernando Silva, Steffen Staab, and Andreas Winter. "On marrying ontological and metamodeling technical spaces." Proceedings of the 6th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering. ACM, 2007.
↑ Paul Harmon. "The MDA Classic" at bptrends.com, April 2003.

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[1] Kleppe, Anneke G., Jos B. Warmer, and Wim Bast. MDA explained: the model driven architecture: practice and promise. Addison-Wesley Professional, 2003.

[2] Buschmann, Frank, Kelvin Henney, and Douglas Schimdt. Pattern-oriented Software Architecture: On Patterns and Pattern Language. Vol. 5. John Wiley & Sons, 2007.

[3] Brockmans, Saartje, et al. "A model driven approach for building OWL DL and OWL full ontologies." The Semantic Web-ISWC 2006. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2006. 187-200.

[4] Parreiras, Fernando Silva, Steffen Staab, and Andreas Winter. "On marrying ontological and metamodeling technical spaces." Proceedings of the 6th joint meeting of the European software engineering conference and the ACM SIGSOFT symposium on The foundations of software engineering. ACM, 2007.

[5] Paul Harmon. "The MDA Classic" at bptrends.com, April 2003.