AtlanMod : Ingénierie des modèles
The AtlanMod team (for "Atlantic Modeling"), located in Nantes, is a research team common to INRIA and EMN (see the AtlanMod team description at INRIA). It is the result of a long term specialization on the subject of MDE (Model Driven Engineering) in the area of Nantes since 1990. Much visibility was gained when this activity joined the ATLAS project led by Patrick Valduriez between 2003 and 2008. Prior to this, the activity led, in June 1998, to the creation of the MODELS conference and in 2007 of the [ http://www.model-transformation.org/ICMT2009/ ICMT] conference. The activity on model management has become highly visible in terms of research results, industrial contracts, and technology transfer.
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Completely specializing on advanced model engineering, the AtlanMod research team is well known for its toolbox (AmmA for AtlanMod Model Management Architecture), including in particular the widely used ATL (AtlanMod Transformation Language). Since these tools have been made available on the Eclipse.org platform, there are an important number of organizations, academic or industrial, that are currently using these tools. AtlanMod has been a key international actor in the development of the model transformation area, publishing the first papers and creating the reference conference on the subject (ICMT, International Conference on Model Transformation). AtlanMod participates in the major international, European, and national projects on MDE like Carroll, ModelWare, ModelPlex, TopCased, OpenEmbeDD, OpenDevFactory, Lambda, FLFS, IDM++, Happy/Gaja, OPEES, CESAR, etc. In addition to these, ATL has been used in a number of other projects, including international projects and activities supported by several French clusters. AtlanMod has demonstrated that, with a small team, it was possible to achieve high impact by keeping a precise focus and of course by getting a lot of collaboration through open source projects (Eclipse).
The high dissemination of the AmmA toolkit has also led the AtlanMod team to propose an original schema for applied research. The success of the ATL language has shown the difficulty to support at the same time an evolving research prototype and a stable industrial product, usable by a large community. In order to solve this contradiction, and to build a stable and durable solution, AtlanMod has asked one company (Obeo) to handle the open-source stable version of ATL in their ATL-Pro initiative. At the same time, the AtlanMod team is pursuing many experimental improvements to the language in the ATL-research initiative. Both activities will be developed in open source and in collaboration. When an idea has found its way to a solid prototype in ATL-research, it will be the decision of our industrial partner to decide and implement the integration of the corresponding improvement into the stable ATL-Pro working version.
