Two-Hemisphere Model Driven Approach: Engineering Based Software Development

Abstract

Several model driven approaches are currently used and developed, namely, generic model driven approaches, agile model driven approaches, business process model driven approaches, etc. This paper proposes the model driven approach, which is based on a two-hemisphere model. The two-hemisphere model integrates application and problem domain issues. The model utilizes automatic model transformations, but in the same time allows room for input of tacit knowledge. It is a practice-oriented approach which ties together methods of business process modeling, object oriented, and model transformation approaches in order to support cognitive needs of requirements holders and object oriented software developers, and provide framework for explicit and transparent representation of mutually related business and software development knowledge. It utilizes tacit knowledge of stakeholders (including software designers), but in the same time reflects this knowledge in explicit and automatically reconfigurable models that form the basis for automatic code generation.