01317nas a2200265   4500000000100000000000100001008004100002260001200043653000800055653000800063653000800071653001300079100002800092700003000120700002600150700003000176700002700206700003000233245003000263856007100293300001000364490000600374520065700380022001401037       2008                            d  c12/200810aMDA10aMDD10aMDE10aSoftware1 aH Fernández-Fernández1 aJuan Manuel Cueva-Lovelle1 aVicente García-Díaz1 aCristina Pelayo G-Bustelo1 aOscar Sanjuan-Martinez1 aElías Palacios-González00aGeneral purpose MDE tools  uhttp://www.ijimai.org/journal/sites/default/files/IJIMAI1-1-12.pdf  a72-750 v13 aMDE paradigm promises to release developers from writing code. The basis of this paradigm consists in working at such a level of abstraction that will make it easyer for analysts to detail the project to be undertaken. Using the model described by analysts, software tools will do the rest of the task, generating software that will comply with customer's defined requirements. The purpose of this study is to compare general purpose tools available right now that enable to put in practice the principles of this paradigm and aimed at generating a wide variety of applications composed by interactive multimedia and artificial intelligence components.  a1989-1660