@conference {154,
	title = {Automated development of web-based modeling services for MSaaS platforms},
	booktitle = {Proceedings of the Symposium on Model-driven Approaches for Simulation Engineering (Mod4Sim 2017) {\textendash} part of SpringSim 2017},
	year = {2017},
	publisher = {The Society for Modeling and Simulation International},
	organization = {The Society for Modeling and Simulation International},
	abstract = {<p>MSaaS (M\&amp;S as a Service) is gaining momentum as an effective approach to bring the benefits of service-oriented architectures and cloud computing into the M\&amp;S field, so as to enhance interoperability, composability, reusability and reduce the cost of M\&amp;S efforts. Such significant advantages can be further enhanced by introducing automated model transformations that support the various phases of a M\&amp;S effort, from simulation model building down to model implementation, deployment and execution. In previous contributions we have already addressed the use of automated model transformations that can be effectively adopted to provide simulation services for MSaaS platforms. This paper instead focuses on the automated development of modeling services for MSaaS, i.e., those services that allow platform users to easily build models in their own modeling language by use of a web-based user interface. Specifically, this work proposes an approach to automatically generate web-based visual editors from a metamodel that defines a given modeling language. Once generated, such editors can be made available on demand through a complete MSaaS platform, which also includes simulation services. The paper first describes the architecture of a MSaaS platform that includes modeling services, then illustrates the method for the automated development of web-based modeling services and, finally, gives a complete example application of the proposed method. {\textcopyright}2017 Society for Modeling \&amp; Simulation International (SCS).</p>},
	keywords = {Automation, Information services, Interoperability, Model driven development, Model transformation, Modeling languages, MSaaS, Reusability, Service oriented architecture (SOA), User interfaces, Visual editors, Visual languages, Web services, Web-based modeling, Websites},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85020620129\&partnerID=40\&md5=d5baa89a6c01329dba3a44c6afbf1e92},
	author = {Bocciarelli, P. and D{\textquoteright}Ambrogio, A. and Mastromattei, A. and Giglio, A.},
	editor = {Durak U. and Cetinkaya D. and D{\textquoteright}Ambrogio A.}
}
@conference {150,
	title = {A PAAS-Based framework for automated performance analysis of service-oriented systems},
	booktitle = {Proceedings - Winter Simulation Conference},
	year = {2017},
	publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.},
	organization = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.},
	abstract = {<p>Service-oriented systems are often at the core of mission- or business-critical systems, and thus advanced quantitative analysis techniques are needed to assess, from the early development stages, whether or not the system accomplishes the stakeholder requirements and constraints. In this respect, in order to take advantage of the distributed nature of the considered systems, the use of distributed simulation (DS) appears the most natural and effective simulation approach. Nevertheless, the integration of traditional system development processes with DS approaches can be cost-And time-demanding. This paper presents SOAsim, a highly automated framework that allows system designers to generate the executable DS code from the model-based specification of the system under study, by use of automated model transformations. Moreover, in order to reduce the costs of setting-up dedicated DS platforms, SOAsim also automates the DS deployment and execution over a cloud-based infrastructure, according to a Platform-As-A-Service (PaaS) paradigm. {\textcopyright} 2016 IEEE.</p>},
	keywords = {Automated model transformations, Automated performance analysis, Automation, Computer aided software engineering, Development stages, Distributed simulations, Model-based specifications, Platform as a Service (PaaS), Service Oriented Systems, Simulation approach, Traditional systems},
	isbn = {9781509044863},
	doi = {10.1109/WSC.2016.7822154},
	url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85014155535\&doi=10.1109\%2fWSC.2016.7822154\&partnerID=40\&md5=588d85610cba0fbef476d22e0f4a006f},
	author = {D{\textquoteright}Ambrogio, A. and Bocciarelli, P. and Mastromattei, A.},
	editor = {Roeder T.M., Szechtman R., Frazier P.I., Zhou E.}
}
