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Classifying Approaches for Constructing Single Underlying Models

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Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD 2019)

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Multi-view environments for software development allow different views of a software system to be defined to cover the requirements of different stakeholders. One way of ensuring consistency of overlapping information often contained in such views is to project them “on demand” from a Single Underlying Model (SUM). However, there are several ways to construct and adapt such SUMs. This paper presents four archetypal approaches and analyses their advantages and disadvantages based on several new criteria. In addition, guidelines are presented for selecting a suitable SUM construction approach for a specific project.

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  1. Software Engineering Group, University of Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany

    Johannes Meier & Andreas Winter

  2. Software Technology Group, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany

    Christopher Werner & Uwe Aßmann

  3. Software Design and Quality Group, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany

    Heiko Klare, Erik Burger & Ralf Reussner

  4. Software Engineering Group, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

    Christian Tunjic & Colin Atkinson

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Meier, J. et al. (2020). Classifying Approaches for Constructing Single Underlying Models. In: Hammoudi, S., Pires, L., Selić, B. (eds) Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development. MODELSWARD 2019. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 1161. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-37873-8_15

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