Future Trends of Software Technology and Applications Model-Based Development

The productivity and dependability challenges we face in software engineering remain significant. Software has become the pacing item and an unexpectedly large expense in the development of many engineered systems. Dealing with this situation will require a radical change in the way we build software, and one candidate to form the basis of that change is model-based development. Model-based development relies on the creation by application experts of models of the required systems and synthesis of the software from the model. This approach brings many benefits but also a surprising number of challenges. Success to date with model-based development has been considerable