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Despite the pivotal significance of transformations for model-driven approaches, there have not been any attempts to explicitly model transformation languages yet. This paper presents a novel approach for the specification of transformations by modeling model transformation languages as domain-specific languages. For each pair of domain, the metamodel of the rules are (quasi-)automatically generated to create a language tailored to the transformation. Moreover, this method is very efficient when the transformation domains are the transformation rules themselves, which facilitates the design of higher-order transformations.
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Kühne, T., Mezei, G., Syriani, E., Vangheluwe, H., Wimmer, M. (2010). Explicit Transformation Modeling. In: Ghosh, S. (eds) Models in Software Engineering. MODELS 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6002. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12261-3_23
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