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An Extensive Catalog of Operators for the Coupled Evolution of Metamodels and Models

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Software Language Engineering (SLE 2010)

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Modeling languages and thus their metamodels are subject to change. When a metamodel is evolved, existing models may no longer conform to it. Manual migration of these models in response to metamodel evolution is tedious and error-prone. To significantly automate model migration, operator-based approaches provide reusable coupled operators that encapsulate both metamodel evolution and model migration. The success of an operator-based approach highly depends on the library of reusable coupled operators it provides. In this paper, we thus present an extensive catalog of coupled operators that is based both on a literature survey as well as real-life case studies. The catalog is organized according to a number of criteria to ease assessing the impact on models as well as selecting the right operator for a metamodel change at hand.

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  1. Institut für Informatik, Technische Universität München, Boltzmannstr. 3, 85748, Garching b. München, Germany

    Markus Herrmannsdoerfer

  2. Software Engineering Research Group, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands

    Sander D. Vermolen & Guido Wachsmuth

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  1. Computer Science Dept., Clemson University, SC 29634, Clemson, USA

    Brian Malloy

  2. Institute for Computer Science, University of Koblenz, P.O.Box 201602, 56016, Koblenz, Germany

    Steffen Staab

  3. Mathematics and Computer Science Dept., Eindhoven University of Technology, Den Dolech 2, 5612 AZ, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Mark van den Brand

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Herrmannsdoerfer, M., Vermolen, S.D., Wachsmuth, G. (2011). An Extensive Catalog of Operators for the Coupled Evolution of Metamodels and Models. In: Malloy, B., Staab, S., van den Brand, M. (eds) Software Language Engineering. SLE 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6563. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-19440-5_10

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