A Platform-Independent Model (PIM) in software engineering

Software engineering

Software Engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software...

 is a model of a software system

Software system

A software system is a system based on software forming part of a computer system . The term "software system" is often used as a synonym of computer program or software; is related to the application of systems theory approaches in software engineering context and are used to study large and...

 or business system, that is independent of the specific technological platform used to implement it. The term platform-independent model is most frequently used in the context of the model-driven architecture

Model-driven architecture

Model-driven architecture is a software design approach for the development of software systems. It provides a set of guidelines for the structuring of specifications, which are expressed as models. Model-driven architecture is a kind of domain engineering, and supports model-driven engineering of...

 approach.Platform independent is program running on different processors like intel, AMD, Sun Micro Systems etc;
This model-driven architecture approach corresponds the Object Management Group

Object Management Group

Object Management Group is a consortium, originally aimed at setting standards for distributed object-oriented systems, and is now focused on modeling and model-based standards.- Overview :...

 vision of Model Driven Engineering. The main idea is that it should be possible to use a Model Transformation Language

Model Transformation Language

A model transformation language in systems and software engineering is a language for model transformation.- Overview :The notion of model transformation is of central importance to information technology. A software system may be seen as a set of information transformations...

 to transform a Platform-independent model into a Platform-specific model

Platform-specific model

A platform-specific model is a model of a software or business system that is linked to a specific technological platform . Platform-specific models are indispensable for the actual implementation of a system.For example, a need to implement an online shop...

. In order to achieve this transformation, one can use a language compliant to the newly defined QVT

QVT

QVT is a standard set of languages for model transformation defined by the Object Management Group .- Overview :...

 standard. Examples of such languages are VIATRA

VIATRA

The VIATRA framework is the core of a transformation-based verification and validation environment for improving the quality of systems designed using the Unified Modeling Language by automatically checking consistency, completeness, and dependability requirements.- Target Application Domains...

 or ATLAS Transformation Language

ATLAS Transformation Language

ATL is a model transformation language and toolkit developed and maintained by OBEO and AtlanMod. It was initiated by the team...

. It means execution of the program is not restricted by the type of o/s used
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