Automated Chaining of Model Transformations with I

Authors: Francesco Basciani Davide Di Ruscio Ludovico Iovino Alfonso Pierantonio

Publish Date: 2014/9/28

Volume: , Issue: , Pages: 602-618

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Abstract

In ModelDriven Engineering MDE models are firstclass entities that are manipulated by means of model transformations The development of complex and large transformations can benefit from the reuse of smaller ones that can be composed according to user requirements Composing transformations is a complex problem typically smaller transformations are discovered and selected by developers from different and heterogeneous sources Then the identified transformations are chained by means of manual and errorprone composition processesIn this paper we propose an approach to automatically discover and compose transformations developers provide the system with the source models and specify the target metamodel By relying on a repository of model transformations all the possible transformation chains are calculated Importantly in case of incompatible intermediate target and source metamodels proper adapters are automatically generated in order to chain also transformations that otherwise would be discarded by limiting the reuse possibilities of available transformations

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