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Support for automated model transformation is essential for realizing a Model Driven Development (MDD) process. However, model transformation is only one of the many tools in a model engineering toolkit. To apply MDD in the large, automated support for a number of additional tasks such as model comparison, merging, validation and model-to-text transformation, is essential. While a number of successful model transformation languages have been currently proposed, the majority of them have been developed in isolation and as a result, they face consistency and integration difficulties with languages that support other model management tasks. We present the Epsilon Transformation Language (ETL), a hybrid model transformation language that has been developed atop the infrastructure provided by the Epsilon model management platform. By building atop Epsilon, ETL is seamlessly integrated with a number of other task-specific languages to help to realize composite model management workflows.
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Kolovos, D.S., Paige, R.F., Polack, F.A.C. (2008). The Epsilon Transformation Language. In: Vallecillo, A., Gray, J., Pierantonio, A. (eds) Theory and Practice of Model Transformations. ICMT 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5063. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69927-9_4
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