Multi-level Modeling with DMLA - A Contribution to the MULTI Process Challenge

Somogyi, Ferenc A.; Mezei, Gergely; Urbán, Dániel; Theisz, Zoltán; Bácsi, Sándor; Palatinszky, Dániel

doi:10.1109/models-c.2019.00022

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“…EMF employs traditional modeling facilities including a standard graphical notation and traditional model elements like inheritance or interfaces that can be used in the creation of multi-level concepts. Traditional modeling facilities are widely known and thus, it is most likely easier to use a traditional approach as opposed to MLMP which does not provide them due to the nature of DMLA [58]. It is worth noting that it is possible to model these commonly used model elements in MLMP (and also in EMF, e.g., see inheritance in both solutions) and then later use them when building other constructs.…”

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In recent years, multi-level modeling has become more and more popular. It is mainly due to the fact that multi-level modeling aims to reduce or even totally eliminate any accidental complexity inadvertently created as by-product in traditional model design. Moreover, besides reducing model complexity, multi-level modeling also improves on general comprehension of models. The key enablers of multi-level modeling are the concepts of clabjects and deep instantiation. The latter is often governed by the potency notion, of which many different interpretations and variations emerged over the years. However, there exist also some approaches that disregard the potency notion. Thus, multi-level modeling approaches tend to take advantage of different theoretical and practical backgrounds. In this paper, we propose a unifying framework, the Multi-Level Modeling Playground (MLMP), which is a validating modeling environment for multi-level modeling research. The MLMP environment is based on our multi-layer modeling framework (the Dynamic Multi-Layer Algebra), which provides useful mechanisms to validate different multi-level modeling constructs. Since beyond the structure also the well-formedness rules of the modeling constructs can be specified, our proposed MLMP environment delivers several practical benefits: i) well-formedness is always verified, ii) multi-level constructs can be experimented with independently of any concrete tool chains, and iii) relationships (i.e., correlations or exclusions) between different multi-level constructs can be easily investigated in practice. Also, the capability of the environment is demonstrated via complete examples inspired by state-of-the-art research literature.

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“…DMLA follows a level-blind approach of metamodeling [2]: entities can refer to each other independently of their abstraction levels. The framework has proven its ability to model multi-level scenarios through various research community challenges [14,18].…”

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Multi-level modeling has become a mature modeling paradigm both theoretically and by technical means. It has proved itself when a single domain has to be created without accidental complexity. However, when several interconnected domains are to be handled, multi-level modeling is still not as capable as legacy metamodeling. Our position paper aims to narrow the gap by the introduction of a novel technique that can combine several multi-level models from different domains statically. Besides its theoretical proposal, the solution is also defined in our multi-layer modeling framework (Dynamic Multi-Layer Algebra) and is demonstrated by an illustrative example. CCS CONCEPTS • Software and its engineering → Model-driven software engineering.

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Multi-level Modeling with DMLA - A Contribution to the MULTI Process Challenge

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