Automation in Model-Driven Engineering: A look back, and ahead

Abstraction

Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) provides a huge body of knowledge of automation for many different engineering tasks, especially those involving transitioning from design to implementation. With the huge progress made in Artificial Intelligence (AI), questions arise about the future of MDE, such as how existing MDE techniques and technologies can be improved or how other activities that currently lack dedicated support can also be automated. However, at the same time, it has to be revisited where and how models should be used to keep the engineers in the loop for creating, operating, and maintaining complex systems. To trigger dedicated research on these open points, we discuss the history of automation in MDE and present perspectives on how automation in MDE can be further improved and which obstacles have to be overcome in both the medium and long-term.

纵轴对应MDE能实现的功能，横轴对应所属技术领域

一篇综述性质的文章，一方面回顾了典型的MDE技术，一方面做了技术展望。
回顾方面如图所示，该文章按照建模、模型验证、模型管理等类型对功能进行了分类（2.1节），然后介绍了几种MDE的技术类型（这个分类挺让人迷惑的，没看懂这么分有什么意义，可能是想突出AI和LLM）（2.2节）。从第三节开始介绍对AI的思考，介绍了个别工作，其余的都是设想，本质上是技术驱动不是工程需求。提出了几个其他的工程需求：标准不统一、性能提升，也是常见的问题。