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 					<b>Kitalpha</b> is an environment to develop and execute MBE (Model-Based Engineering) workbenches
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 				<h3>An environment to develop and execute MBE workbenches…</h3>
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 					Kitalpha is dedicated to implement modelling frameworks and viewpoints, and this in coherence with the
 					ISO/IEC 42010 standard for description of system architecture. In this standard, an architecture framework
 					aggregates viewpoints. Each viewpoint describes at least one system concern, such as non-functional concerns
 					(e.g., performance, safety, security, and cost), for involved stakeholders (e.g., safety engineer).
 					Kitalpha extends the definition of viewpoint to also consider it as an engineering extension which comes with
 					its own metamodels, representations (e.g., diagrams, tables, user interfaces), rules (e.g., validation, analysis,
 					transformation), services and tools to address an engineering specialty. Consequently, an MBE workbench is the
 					result of a flexible assembly of core viewpoints extended by new ones which are, in the context of co-engineering,
 					appropriate and valuable for specialty engineers. The set of all the viewpoints provide a solution for the complete
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 					At this stage, a textual syntax with Xtext is supported, even if the foundations are able to accept other kinds of representations
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	<p>
	Kitalpha is dedicated to implement modelling frameworks and viewpoints, and this in coherence with the
	ISO/IEC 42010 standard for description of system architecture. In this standard, an architecture framework
	aggregates viewpoints. Each viewpoint describes at least one system concern, such as non-functional concerns
	(e.g., performance, safety, security, and cost), for involved stakeholders (e.g., safety engineer).
	Kitalpha extends the definition of viewpoint to also consider it as an engineering extension which comes with
	its own metamodels, representations (e.g., diagrams, tables, user interfaces), rules (e.g., validation, analysis,
	transformation), services and tools to address an engineering specialty. Consequently, an MBE workbench is the
	result of a flexible assembly of core viewpoints extended by new ones which are, in the context of co-engineering,
	appropriate and valuable for specialty engineers. The set of all the viewpoints provide a solution for the complete
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	At this stage, a textual syntax with Xtext is supported, even if the foundations are able to accept other kinds of representations
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