AFITA 2006

FIFTH CONFERENCE OF AFITA

Workshop on Modeling Agricultural Systems Using an MDA Approach

IN COLLABORATION WITH THE FIFTH CONFERENCE OF THE ASIAN FEDERATION

FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY IN AGRICULTURAL (AFITA - 2006)

BANGALORE, INDIA

10-11 NOVEMBER 2006

An Introduction to Précised Modeling of Agricultural Systems

IFAS, University of Florida USA, Cemagref, France and NARC, Japan are organizing a workshop titled “Modeling Agricultural Systems Using an MDA Approach”. The goal of this workshop is to present to Agricultural audiences a new and promising modeling approach.

Hands on will be provided therefore attendees are advised to bring their own laptops. Attendees will be provided with materials and open source software to continue the study of this approach at their leisure. The workshop will contain:

A short introduction to basic Object-Oriented concepts and their UML notations.

· Basic principles of the Object-Oriented paradigm

¨ Abstraction

¨ Encapsulation

¨ Polymorphism

¨ Modularity

¨ Hierarchy

· Basic concepts of the object-oriented paradigm and the corresponding UML notations

¨ Class

¨ Object

¨ Attributes

¨ Operations

¨ Interface

¨ Component

¨ Package

¨ Subsystem

¨ Relationship

· UML diagrams

¨ The use case diagram

¨ The class diagram

¨ Collaboration diagram

¨ State diagram

· UML model of a simple system - the online registration system

¨ The use case model

¨ Class diagrams

¨ Collaboration diagrams

¨ Software developed in Java

· Using UML profiles to model spatial systems in agriculture

¨ Adapting UML to spatial systems

¨ Modeling of spatial objects in an agricultural system for

· sewage sludge spreading management in France

· The Object Constraint Language (OCL)

¨ Precise definition of environmental rules with OCL

¨ Checking automatically if a dataset complies with

· Environmental rules.

¨ Survey of the different open source tools

· Supporting OCL

· A short introduction to The Model Driven Architecture Approach (MDA)

¨ The role of MDA in the software industry

¨ MDA a model-centric approach

¨ Platform Independent Models (PIM)

¨ Platform Specific Models (PSM)

¨ Automatic code generation

¨ Simple example of system construction in MDA

Ample examples from the domain of Agriculture are provided. The same set of examples will be used to illustrate presented concepts. A small project will be constructed representing a summary of all concepts introduced during the workshop.