Making Domain-Specific Models Collaborate

Many software vendors are pushing Domain-Specific Modeling (DSM) as a way to add business value to their middleware offerings. On the other hand, because the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) aims at breaking enterprise silos, modern applications tend to be cross-industry and to cover simultaneously different domains. Domain-specific models need then to be composed in order to build domains with much larger scopes. In this paper, the authors propose a new approach of domain specific models composition, focusing on the specification of how models collaborate with each other.