Surviving the Heterogeneity Jungle with Composite Mapping Operators
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Buchtitel:
Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Model Transformation (ICMT 2010)
Original Kurzfassung:
Model transformations play a key role in the vision of Model Driven Engineering. Nevertheless, mechanisms like abstraction, variation
and composition for specifying and applying reusable model transformations { like urgently needed for resolving recurring structural heterogeneities { are insufficiently supported so far. Therefore, we propose to
specify model transformations by a set of pre-defined mapping operators (MOps), each resolving a certain kind of structural heterogeneity.
Firstly, these MOps can be used in the context of arbitrary metamodels since they abstract from concrete metamodel types. Secondly, MOps
can be tailored to resolve certain structural heterogeneities by means of
black-box reuse. Thirdly, based on a systematic set of kernel MOps resolving basic heterogeneities, composite ones can be built in order to deal
with more complex scenarios. Finally, an extensible library of MOps is
proposed, allowing for automatically executable mapping specifications
since every MOp exhibits a clearly defined operational semantics.
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