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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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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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