David S. Frankel (born 1950) is an American Information Technology expert and consultant, known for his work on

model-driven engineering Model-driven engineering (MDE) is a software development methodology that focuses on creating and exploiting domain models, which are conceptual models of all the topics related to a specific problem. Hence, it highlights and aims at abstract re ...

and semantic information modeling.

Biography

Frankel obtained his BS in Mathematics from the

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univ ...

, and sequentially his

Master of Social Work The Master of Social Work (MSW) is a master's degree in the field of social work. It is a professional degree with specializations compared to Bachelor of Social Work (BSW). MSW promotes macro-, mezzo- and micro-aspects of professional social wor ...

at the same university. Frankel started his career in the software industry in the 1970s, developing software tool for

HP 2100 The HP 2100 is a series of 16-bit minicomputers that were produced by Hewlett-Packard (HP) from the mid-1960s to early 1990s. Tens of thousands of machines in the series were sold over its twenty-five year lifetime, making HP the fourth largest mi ...

mini-computers and became senior Programmer-Analyst. In 1982 he started as independent consultant participating in the development of

Local area network A local area network (LAN) is a computer network that interconnects computers within a limited area such as a residence, school, laboratory, university campus or office building. By contrast, a wide area network (WAN) not only covers a larger ...

-based database applications. He was Enterprise Architect for several companies, and was Lead Standards Architect in the domain of Model-Driven Systems at SAP Labs in California from 2005 to 2012, and independent consultant ever since. Frankel has been on the Architecture Board of the

Object Management Group The Object Management Group (OMG) is a computer industry standardization, standards consortium. OMG Task Forces develop enterprise integration standards for a range of technologies. Business activities The goal of the OMG was a common portabl ...

(OMG) for a long time. Paul Harmon.
The MDA Classic
at ''bptrends.com,'' April 2003. In 2003 he published his most cited work "Model Driven Architecture: Applying Mda to Enterprise Computing."

Selected publications

* Frankel, David S. ''Model Driven Architecture Applying Mda to Enterprise Computing.'' John Wiley & Sons, 2003. * Parodi, John, and David S. Frankel. ''The MDA journal: model driven architecture straight from the masters.'' Meghan-Kiffer Press, 2004. Articles, a selection: * David S. Frankel, Harmon, P., Mukerji, J., Odell, J., Owen, M., Rivitt, P., Rosen, M... & Soley, R. M. et al. (2003)
The Zachman Framework and the OMG's Model Driven Architecture
" ''Business Process Trends,'' 9 (2003). * Frankel, David S. "The MDA marketing message and the MDA reality." ''MDA Journal, a Business Process Trends Column'' (2004). * Frankel, David S., et al. "A Model-Driven Semantic Web: Reinforcing Complementary Strengths." ''MDA Journal, Business Process Trends'' (2004). * Frankel, D., Hayes, P., Kendall, E., & McGuinness, D. (2004). "The model driven semantic web." In ''1st International Workshop on the Model-Driven Semantic Web'' (MDSW2004), Monterey, California, USA.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Frankel, David S. 1950 births Living people American computer scientists Information systems researchers University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign alumni