Gábor Karsai | Compositional Systems Lab

Metamodelling: state of the art and research challenges

Fri, 01 Jan 2010 00:00:00 +0000

This chapter discusses the current state of the art, and emerging research challenges, for metamodelling. In the state-of-the-art review on metamodelling, we review approaches, abstractions, and tools for metamodelling, evaluate them with respect to their expressivity, investigate what role(s) metamodels may play at run-time and how semantics can be assigned to metamodels and the domain-specific modeling languages they could define. In the emerging challenges section on metamodelling we highlight research issues regarding the management of complexity, consistency, and evolution of metamodels, and how the semantics of metamodels impacts each of these.

A Domain-Specific Visual Language for Domain Model Evolution

Thu, 01 Jan 2004 00:00:00 +0000

Domain-specific visual languages (DSVLs) are concise and useful tools that allow the rapid development of the behavior and/or structure of applications in well-defined domains. These languages are typically developed specifically for a domain, and have a strong cohesion to the domain concepts, which often appear as primitives in the language. The strong cohesion between DSVL language primitives and the domain is a benefit for development by domain experts, but can be a drawback when the domain evolves—even when that evolution appears to be insignificant. This paper presents a domain-specific visual language developed expressly for the evolution of domain-specific visual languages, and uses concepts from graph rewriting to specify and carry out the transformation of the models built using the original DSVL.

Domain Translation Using Graph Transformations

Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 +0000

Model Migration through Visual Modeling

Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 +0000

On the Use of Graph Transformation in the Formal Specification of Model Interpreters

Wed, 01 Jan 2003 00:00:00 +0000

Computer-aided aircraft maintenance scheduling

Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 +0000

Domain Evolution in Visual Languages Using Graph Transformations

Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 +0000

Generative Programming via Graph Transformations in the Model-Driven Architecture

Tue, 01 Jan 2002 00:00:00 +0000

Composing Domain-Specific Design Environments

Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000

The New Metamodeling Generation

Mon, 01 Jan 2001 00:00:00 +0000

Modeling Agent Negotiation

Sat, 01 Jan 2000 00:00:00 +0000