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The paper analyzes transformation of a correct heterogeneous meta-program into 2-stage meta-programs. We propose a methodology and describe experiments to solve two tasks: 1) transformation of the 1-stage meta-program into the set of 2-stage meta-programs; 2) checking hypothesis of the transformation equivalence under given transformation rules and constraints. The experimental results have shown that introduced formalism, rules and models ensure correctness of transformations, extend reuse dimension to automatically adapt (through transformations) variants of programs/meta-programs to different contexts of use, enable to better understand meta-program development/change processes and heterogeneous meta-programming perse.
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Štuikys, V., Bespalova, K. (2012). Methodology and Experiments to Transform Heterogeneous Meta-program into Meta-meta-programs. In: Skersys, T., Butleris, R., Butkiene, R. (eds) Information and Software Technologies. ICIST 2012. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 319. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33308-8_18
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