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What is needed for managing co-evolution in MDE?

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Davide Di Ruscio,

Ludovico Iovino,

Alfonso PierantonioAuthors Info & Claims

IWMCP '11: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Model Comparison in Practice

Pages 30 - 38

https://doi.org/10.1145/2000410.2000416

Published: 30 June 2011 Publication History

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Metamodels can be considered one of the cardinal concepts of Model-Driven Engineering, one which a number of coordinated entities such as models, transformations and tools, are dependent on. Analogously to any software artifact, metamodels are equally prone to evolution during their lifetime. As a consequence, whenever a metamodel changes, any related entity must be consistently adapted for preserving its wellformedness, consistency, or intrinsic correctness.

This paper discusses the problem of co-adapting models, transformations, and tools. Different aspects are taken into account and a prospective and unifying characterization is given with the intent of clarifying the main difficulties and outline the basic requirements for possible solutions. In this respect, EMFMigrate a comprehensive approach to the metamodel co-evolution problem is proposed.

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What is needed for managing co-evolution in MDE?
1. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Requirements analysis
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. General programming languages
      1. Language features

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IWMCP '11: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Model Comparison in Practice

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DOI:10.1145/2000410

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