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Papyrus Industrial Consortium – Open Source
Modeling-based Engineering Tools in Industry
Philip Langer 1
Abstract. Model-based engineering (MBE) has proven to be very One of the most popular open-source MBE tools is Eclipse Pa-
effective in systems and software developing organizations in, for pyrus, which is a standards-based platform for developing domain-
instance, the automotive sector, the systems engineering industry, specific modeling tools. Its core strengths are customizability, its ac-
and to a certain extent also in the software engineering domain. tive community, as well as its huge ecosystem of tools and compo-
MBE is used in many contexts ranging from architecture design, nents, ranging from model simulation, model validation, code gener-
interface definition, system simulation, automatic code generation, ation, to its team support for collaborative modeling. Eclipse Papyrus
through to validation and verification. The use of models in the de- and all of its components are not only free of charge, they are open
velopment of complex systems is most successful when highly cus- in the sense that everyone has access to its source code and hence
tomized domain-specific modeling languages and modeling editors can easily adopt, customize, and extend it according to their needs,
are adopted in order to reflect the specific needs of the different types without having to worry about vendors lock-in. This flexibility nur-
of developers involved in the development of a system. One of the tures collaboration and innovation across the organizational boarders
most important obstacles for a broad adoption of MBE, however, has of software providers, adopters, and researchers.
been the fact that existing off-the-shelf industrial MBE tools neither In this talk, we report on the proceedings in the Papyrus IC, an
have been capable of covering the diverse development aspects that industrial consortium that has been established to collaborate on the
are considered crucial for the specific domains and types of devel- development of an advanced, industry-ready, open source, model-
opers, nor have off-the-shelf tools been customizable and extensi- based engineering (MBE) tool suite, and open tool platform based
ble enough to be tailored towards the specific needs of the respec- on Papyrus. We demonstrate a few technologies that are being de-
tive application domain. As a consequence, systems and software veloped in the context of the Papyrus IC and discuss the unterlying
developing organizations increasingly turn away from off-the-shelf cross-organizational collaborations, future plans, and oportunities for
MBE tools and are beginning to adopt open-source software mod- researchers, adopters, and technology providers.
eling tools and platforms, as these can be more easily extended and
customized to their domain-specific needs.
1 EclispseSource Services GmbH, Wiedner Hauptstrae 52, 1040 Wien, Aus-
tria, email:planger@eclipsesource.com