Modelia – partnership with CEA List
The goal of the project is the integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in software development tools to achieve the cognification of model-driven software engineering tasks and processes.
Software is the infrastructure that powers our digital society. It is everywhere: laptops, phones, watches, cars, electrical household appliances and all kinds of IoT devices around us. And yet, software development is in a permanent state of crisis. Improvements in programming tools, languages and methods have not been able to keep up with the increasing complexity, demands and trust we expect from all running software. This complexity is expected to keep growing in the coming years with the increase in the number of devices, the vast amounts of big data that the software will have to be able to process in real-time and the integration of AI components for all kinds of reasoning and recognition tasks.
We believe that an incremental improvement on current software development tools and techniques is not enough to deal with this situation. Instead, Modelia advocates for a shift in the way software is developed and maintained thanks to the integration of AI techniques in all software development tools and processes. This integration holds the promise of disruptive improvements on the developers’ productivity and the quality of the software developed.
Modelia will combine AI and model-based engineering and aspires to become a leader in the emerging space of Intelligent IDEs that focus on improving the productivity of individual developers by helping them to find and reuse existing code. Modelia will be able to suggest improvements on the models being created based on general knowledge available online, prevent potential errors by continuously monitoring the developer’s actions or automatically detect and suggest the best refactorings.