Surveying Rule Inheritance in Model-to-Model Transformation Languages

Dimitris Kolovos; Manuel Wimmer; G. Kappel; A Kusel; W Retschitzegger; J Schonbock; W Schwinger; Richard Freeman Paige; M Lauder; A Schurr; D Wagelaar

doi:10.5381/jot.2012.11.2.a3

Surveying Rule Inheritance in Model-to-Model Transformation Languages

Dimitris Kolovos, Manuel Wimmer, G. Kappel, A Kusel, W Retschitzegger, J Schonbock, W Schwinger, Richard Freeman Paige, M Lauder, A Schurr, D Wagelaar

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Abstract

Model transformations play a significant role in Model-Driven Engineering. However, their reuse mechanisms have yet to receive much attention. In this paper, we propose a comparison framework for rule inheritance in model-to-model transformation languages, and provide an in-depth evaluation of prominent representatives of imperative, declarative and hybrid transformation languages. 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
Pages (from-to)	1
Number of pages	46
Journal	Journal of Object Technology
Volume	11
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.5381/jot.2012.11.2.a3
Publication status	Published - Aug 2012

Keywords

Rule Inheritance, Model Transformation, Comparison

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