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Model-Driven Engineering is on its way to become the new software development paradigm, where model transformations are considered as a key technology to close the gap between specification and implementation. Several model transformation approaches and corresponding languages have been developed in the past years. Most of these approaches are metamodel-based, thus require knowledge of implementation details of modeling languages, which in contrast is not necessary for defining domain models in their concrete syntax. Therefore, Model Transformation By-Example (MTBE) approaches have been proposed for defining mappings between domain models from which model transformations are derived. However, until today no tool support for MTBE has been developed.
The contribution of this paper is the presentation of MTBE concepts necessary for deriving general model transformations based on metamodels from user-defined mappings between example models. More specifically, we describe a model mapping language and a metamodel mapping language, as well as reasoning algorithms to infer metamodel mappings from model mappings. Furthermore, we report on how MTBE concepts have been integrated into existing state-of-the-art graphical modeling and model transformation frameworks and give a critical discussion based on a case study.
This work has been partly funded by the Austrian Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT) and FFG under grant FIT-IT-810806.0.
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Strommer, M., Wimmer, M. (2008). A Framework for Model Transformation By-Example: Concepts and Tool Support. In: Paige, R.F., Meyer, B. (eds) Objects, Components, Models and Patterns. TOOLS EUROPE 2008. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69824-1_21
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