A comparison of rule inheritance in model-to-model transformation languages

Manuel Wimmer; Gerti Kappel; Angelika Kusel; Werner Retschitzegger; Johannes Schönböck; Wieland Schwinger; Dimitris Kolovos; Richard Paige; Marius Lauder; Andy Schürr; Dennis Wagelaar

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-21732-6_3

A comparison of rule inheritance in model-to-model transformation languages

Manuel Wimmer, Gerti Kappel, Angelika Kusel, Werner Retschitzegger, Johannes Schönböck, Wieland Schwinger, Dimitris Kolovos, Richard Paige, Marius Lauder, Andy Schürr, Dennis Wagelaar

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Abstract

Although model transformations presumably play a major role in Model-Driven Engineering, reuse mechanisms such as inheritance have received little attention so far. In this paper, we propose a comparison framework for rule inheritance in declarative model-to-model transformation languages, and provide an in-depth evaluation of three prominent representatives thereof, namely ATL, ETL (declarative subsets thereof), and TGGs. The framework provides criteria for comparison along orthogonal dimensions, covering static aspects, which indicate whether a set of inheriting transformation rules is well-formed at compile-time, and dynamic aspects, which describe how inheriting rules behave at run-time. The application of this framework to dedicated transformation languages shows that, while providing similar syntactical inheritance concepts, they exhibit different dynamic inheritance semantics and offer basic support for checking static inheritance semantics, only.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Theory and Practice of Model Transformations - 4th International Conference, ICMT 2011, Proceedings
Pages	31-46
Number of pages	16
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21732-6_3
Publication status	Published - 2011
Externally published	Yes
Event	4th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Model Transformations, ICMT 2011 - Zurich, Switzerland Duration: 27 Jun 2011 → 28 Jun 2011

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Name	Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume	6707 LNCS
ISSN (Print)	0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)	1611-3349

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Conference	4th International Conference on Theory and Practice of Model Transformations, ICMT 2011
Country/Territory	Switzerland
City	Zurich
Period	27.06.2011 → 28.06.2011

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Comparison
Model Transformations
Rule Inheritance

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Wimmer, M., Kappel, G., Kusel, A., Retschitzegger, W., Schönböck, J., Schwinger, W., Kolovos, D., Paige, R., Lauder, M., Schürr, A., & Wagelaar, D. (2011). A comparison of rule inheritance in model-to-model transformation languages. In Theory and Practice of Model Transformations - 4th International Conference, ICMT 2011, Proceedings (pp. 31-46). (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics); Vol. 6707 LNCS). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-21732-6_3

Wimmer, Manuel ; Kappel, Gerti ; Kusel, Angelika et al. / A comparison of rule inheritance in model-to-model transformation languages. Theory and Practice of Model Transformations - 4th International Conference, ICMT 2011, Proceedings. 2011. pp. 31-46 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).

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