TY - GEN
T1 - Surviving the heterogeneity jungle with composite mapping operators
AU - Wimmer, Manuel
AU - Kappel, Gerti
AU - Kusel, Angelika
AU - Retschitzegger, Werner
AU - Schoenboeck, Johannes
AU - Schwinger, Wieland
N1 - Funding Information:
This work has been funded by the Austrian Science Fund (FWF) under grant P21374-N13.
PY - 2010
Y1 - 2010
N2 - Model transformations play a key role in the vision of Model-Driven Engineering. Nevertheless, mechanisms like abstraction, variation and composition for specifying and applying reusable model transformations - like urgently needed for resolving recurring structural heterogeneities - are insufficiently supported so far. Therefore, we propose to specify model transformations by a set of pre-defined mapping operators (MOps), each resolving a certain kind of structural heterogeneity. Firstly, these MOps can be used in the context of arbitrary metamodels since they abstract from concrete metamodel types. Secondly, MOps can be tailored to resolve certain structural heterogeneities by means of black-box reuse. Thirdly, based on a systematic set of kernel MOps resolving basic heterogeneities, composite ones can be built in order to deal with more complex scenarios. Finally, an extensible library of MOps is proposed, allowing for automatically executable mapping specifications since every MOp exhibits a clearly defined operational semantics.
AB - Model transformations play a key role in the vision of Model-Driven Engineering. Nevertheless, mechanisms like abstraction, variation and composition for specifying and applying reusable model transformations - like urgently needed for resolving recurring structural heterogeneities - are insufficiently supported so far. Therefore, we propose to specify model transformations by a set of pre-defined mapping operators (MOps), each resolving a certain kind of structural heterogeneity. Firstly, these MOps can be used in the context of arbitrary metamodels since they abstract from concrete metamodel types. Secondly, MOps can be tailored to resolve certain structural heterogeneities by means of black-box reuse. Thirdly, based on a systematic set of kernel MOps resolving basic heterogeneities, composite ones can be built in order to deal with more complex scenarios. Finally, an extensible library of MOps is proposed, allowing for automatically executable mapping specifications since every MOp exhibits a clearly defined operational semantics.
KW - Executable Mappings
KW - Reuse
KW - Structural Heterogeneities
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77954690776&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-13688-7_18
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-13688-7_18
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77954690776
SN - 3642136877
SN - 9783642136870
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 260
EP - 275
BT - Theory and Practice of Model Transformations - Third International Conference, ICMT 2010, Proceedings
T2 - 3rd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Model Transformations, ICMT 2010
Y2 - 28 June 2010 through 2 July 2010
ER -