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A toolkit for model manipulation

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We present a toolkit to develop scripts to process software models. It can be used to create applications to check, transform and generate derived artifacts from a model. The toolkit is based on the current OMG standards and it can be used with the Unified Modeling Language (UML) and other user-defined languages based on the Meta Object Facility.

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Porres, I. A toolkit for model manipulation. Softw Syst Model 2, 262–277 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10270-003-0034-x

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