Generic Model Refactorings

Moha, Naouel; Mahé, Vincent; Barais, Olivier; Jézéquel, Jean-Marc

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-04425-0_50

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“…In [dLG10], genericity has been introduced for metamodels to define model simulators for a family of languages sharing the same semantics. Another kind of generic in-place transformations has been discussed in [MMBJ09]. In particular, the authors presented generic model refactorings which can be reused for different metamodels sharing similar modeling elements.…”

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EMF Profiles: A Lightweight Extension Approach for EMF Models.

Langer¹,

Wieland²,

Wimmer³

et al. 2012

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Domain-Specific Modeling Languages (DSMLs) are getting more and more attention as a key element of Model Driven Engineering. As any other software artifact, DSMLs should continuously evolve to adapt to the changing needs of the domain they represent. Unfortunately, right now evolution of DSMLs is a costly process that requires changing the DSML metamodel and re-creating the complete modeling environment.In this paper we advocate for the use of EMF Profiles, an adaptation of the UML Profile concept to DSMLs. Profiles have been a key enabler for the success of UML by providing a lightweight language-inherent extension mechanism which is expressive enough to cover an important subset of extension scenarios. We believe a similar concept for DSMLs would provide a valuable extension mechanism which has been so far neglected by current metamodeling tools. Apart from direct metamodel profiles, we also propose reusable profile definition mechanisms whereby profiles are defined independently of any DSML and, later on, coupled with all DSMLs that can benefit from these profiles. Our approach has been implemented in a prototype integrated in the EMF environment.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

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EMF Profiles: A Lightweight Extension Approach for EMF Models.

Langer¹,

Wieland²,

Wimmer³

et al. 2012

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“…Other approaches which adapt the metamodel include patterns with variable entities (i.e., patterns expressing the needed concepts only) for declarative model manipulation rules [58], bidirectional model manipulation DSLs [59] and static introduction in order to make two metamodels structurally equivalent [60]. Wimmer et al presented an hybrid approach (i.e., adaptation of the metamodel and the model manipulation) based on above mentioned concepts that generates a metamodel-specific manipulation from a generic one defined for a metamodel family [61].…”

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Bridging the chasm between MDE and the world of compilation

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Modeling and transforming have always been the cornerstones of software system development, albeit often investigated by different research communities. Modeling addresses how information is represented and processed, while transformation cares about what the results of processing this information are. To address the growing complexity of software systems, Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) leverages Domain Specific Languages (DSL) to define abstract models of systems and automated methods to process them. Meanwhile, compiler technology mostly concentrates on advanced techniques and tools for program transformation. For this, it has developed complex analyses and transformations (from lexical and syntaxic to semantic analyses, down to platformspecific optimizations). These two communities appear today quite complementary and are starting to meet again in the Software Language Engineering (SLE) field. SLE addresses all the stages of a software language lifecycle, from its definition to its tooling. In this article, we show how SLE can lean on the expertise of both MDE and compiler research communities and how each community can bring its solutions to the other one. We then draw a picture of the current state of SLE, and of the challenges it has still to face.

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“…There are also works that aim at the description of generic model refactorings [12]. Although they do not explicitly deal with abstractions, they could be used to abstract models.…”

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Abstracting Modelling Languages: A Reutilization Approach

Lara

Guerra

Cuadrado

2012

Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design

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Esta es la versión de autor de la comunicación de congreso publicada en: This is an author produced version of a paper published in: Abstract. Model-Driven Engineering automates the development of information systems. This approach is based on the use of Domain-Specific Modelling Languages (DSMLs) for the description of the relevant aspects of the systems to be built. The increasing complexity of the target systems has raised the need for abstraction techniques able to produce simpler versions of the models, but retaining certain properties of interest. However, developing such abstractions for each DSML from scratch is a time and resource consuming activity. Our solution to this situation is a number of techniques to build reusable abstractions that are defined once and can be reused over families of modelling languages sharing certain requirements. As a proof of concept, we present a catalogue of reusable abstractions, together with an implementation in the MetaDepth multi-level meta-modelling tool.

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Generic Model Refactorings

Cited by 28 publications

References 24 publications

EMF Profiles: A Lightweight Extension Approach for EMF Models.

EMF Profiles: A Lightweight Extension Approach for EMF Models.

Bridging the chasm between MDE and the world of compilation

Abstracting Modelling Languages: A Reutilization Approach

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