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In model-driven software engineering (MDE), software is built through the incremental development, composition and transformation of a variety of models. We are inevitably confronted with design models that contain a wide variety of inconsistencies. Interactive and automated support for detecting and resolving these inconsistencies is indispensable. We evaluate an approach to automate the generation of concrete models in which structural inconsistencies are resolved. We implemented this approach in the model finder Kodkod and assessed its suitability for model inconsistency resolution based on an objective set of criteria.
This work has been partially supported by (i) Interuniversity Attraction Poles Programme - Belgian State – Belgian Science Policy; (ii) Action de Recherche Concertée AUWB-08/12-UMH 19 funded by the Ministère de la Communauté française - Direction générale de l’Enseignement non obligatoire et de la Recherche scientifique.
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Van Der Straeten, R., Pinna Puissant, J., Mens, T. (2011). Assessing the Kodkod Model Finder for Resolving Model Inconsistencies. In: France, R.B., Kuester, J.M., Bordbar, B., Paige, R.F. (eds) Modelling Foundations and Applications. ECMFA 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6698. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21470-7_6
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