Towards a Transformation Chain Modeling Language
Author(s) -
Bert Vanhooff,
Stefan Van Baelen,
Aram Hovsepyan,
Wouter Joosen,
Yolande Berbers
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
lecture notes in computer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Book series
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.249
H-Index - 400
eISSN - 1611-3349
pISSN - 0302-9743
ISBN - 3-540-36410-2
DOI - 10.1007/11796435_6
Subject(s) - computer science , metamodeling , model transformation , unified modeling language , model driven architecture , modeling language , transformation (genetics) , programming language , abstraction , abstract syntax , software engineering , software development , development (topology) , model driven development , domain specific language , domain (mathematical analysis) , activity diagram , applications of uml , graph rewriting , syntax , software , theoretical computer science , artificial intelligence , semantics (computer science) , mathematical analysis , biochemistry , chemistry , philosophy , consistency (knowledge bases) , mathematics , epistemology , gene , graph
The Model Driven Development (MDD) paradigm stimulates the use of models as the main artifacts for software development. These models can be situated at high levels of abstraction, close to the application's business domain. Many consecutive automatic transformations (a transformation chain) can be applied to these models to add the necessary details in order to generate a concrete implementation. This means that a large part of the total development effort is relocated to the development of transformations and hence we should have the necessary tooling support for designing transformation chains. In this paper we propose a metamodel for a transformation chain modeling language that enables implementation independent composition of transformations. We also propose a concrete syntax for this language that is based on UML activity diagrams.status: publishe
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