Malvina Latifaj
ABSTRACT
Blended modeling aims to enhance the development of complex software-intensive systems by seamless integration of textual and graphical modeling. Manual provision of the synchronization transformations between notations is considered to be a tedious and error-prone task. Moreover, as synchronized languages and/or notations evolve, transformations become redundant as the implicit mappings they represent are no longer accurate. This research proposes a language- and notation-agnostic solution for the automatic generation of synchronization transformations between arbitrary domain-specific modeling languages. We contribute with i) a mapping modeling language defined appositely for the definition of explicit mapping rules in a mapping model and ii) higher-order transformations for the automatic generation of synchronization transformations driven by mapping models. The approach is successfully validated against two use cases.
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- The path towards the automatic provision of blended modeling environments
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