Partners

Industrial Partners

ILOG is a partner since several years. In 2004, Anas Abouzhra built at ILOG an ATL bridge between the PRR and the IRL rule languages. In 2007 Marcos Didonet del Fabro joined ILOG on an INRIA industrial Postdoc support. With the help of Patrick Albert, he is currently revisiting many ILOG applications traditionally implemented in imperative programming technology to see if they could advantageously be redesigned with AMMA techniques. Initial results are very encouraging. In the same time, we have started a three‐year project with ILOG and CEA named IdM++ to investigate the potential of advanced modeling techniques that could be made available in MetaBoxed. ILOG is currently building a stronger collaboration with INRIA where MDE will probably take an important place.

Thales. Historically Thales has been our main partner in MDE activities. The initial work on ATL was strongly supported by the CARROLL project (joint venture between INRIA, CEA and Thales). We are currently in contact with Thales Research and with several Thales business units on advanced MDE applications. We collaborate with Thales in several projects like ModelWare, ModelPlex, Edona, Lambda.

OBEO. We are in permanent contact with the OBEO Company, not only for the industrialization of ATL, but on several other initiatives. This innovative company is present with us in many projects like TOPCASED, EDONA, LAMBDA or HAPPY/Gaja. Their engineers contribute to some of our Eclipse projects like M2M or MoDisco.

Sodifrance. We have a historical collaboration with this company because we transferred to them our Smalltalk‐based first generation sNets modeling platform in the 1990’s. This has been industrialized by Sodifrance in the form of commercial tools like Semantor, still in wide customer use. We proposed initially a variant of the "horse shoe pattern" (backward and forward modeling scheme) that is now very popular. MIA/Software, a subsidiary of Sodifrance, is at the same time a concurrent and a strong partner. The MIA transformation system was built from our previous collaboration on sNets and more particularly from the PhD thesis of Richard Lemesle. This company is presently also developing some transformations in ATL. We are currently discussing a strong collaboration on the industrialization of some of the MetaBoxed tools. We participate in common tasks with Sodifrance in the ModelPlex project.

Business Objects has recently created an ARC (Academic Research Center). The first meeting of this organization allowed defining areas of mutual interest. Some of their expressed needs are in the scope of the AMW component. We look forward to steady cooperation on this subject with the BO Company.

CS. There is a good and steady collaboration with CS Toulouse on the utilization of ATL. CS is one of the companies that have developed large transformations in ATL in the aeronautics domain. Very often these ATL transformations have been used as benchmarks to improve the efficiency of the implementation. CS participates to the OpenEmbeDD project.

Airbus. We are strongly linked to Airbus by the TOPCASED project (see below). Collaboration is also taking place in the LAMBDA project to evaluate the scalability problems in the deployment of MDE in industrial contexts. ATL is used in many application scenarios defined by AirBus. We collaborate also with AirBus to the OpenEmbeDD project.

CEA. We are involved with CEA (LIST Lab) in several projects like OpenEmbeDD and we work on common problems. We have notably provided on Eclipse.org a library of ATL transformations to implement measures in their Papyrus modeling tool. The IdM++ project defines collaboration between us, ILOG and CEA. We plan to develop steady relations between CEA and the AtlanMod team on the subject of advanced modeling techniques like the management of concrete textual syntaxes.

SAP. SAP is a partner in the ModelPlex project. We are developing with SAP Research in Belfast a prototype corresponding to some of the use case expressed by the company. SAP is interested in the concept of a megamodel as developed in the AM3 Eclipse component.

Geensys (and previously TNI). Historically we had strong links with TNI, related to Smalltalk and object technology. In the more recent period, this company was very helpful and invested in the definition and support of ATL. We work with Geensys in the Edona project. More collaborative actions are presently being discussed and will be developed in the context of AtlanMod.

SODIUS. We have a record of collaboration with the Sodius Company in Nantes since its creation. This company has been using many of our tools including ATL and the KM3 metamodel definition language. They are notably acknowledging the availability of ATL in their MD Workbench (http://www.sodius.com/). Their MDE‐based bridging solutions are heavily used by the Telelogics Company, and hence by IBM.