The Epsilon Transformation Language

TY - GEN

T1 - The Epsilon Transformation Language

AU - Kolovos, Dimitrios S.

AU - Paige, Richard F.

AU - Polack, Fiona

PY - 2008

Y1 - 2008

N2 - Support for automated model transformation is essential for realizing a Model Driven Development (MDD) process. However, model transformation is only one of the many tools in a model engineering toolkit. To apply MDD in the large, automated support for a number of additional tasks such as model comparison, merging, validation and model-to-text transformation, is essential. While a number of successful model transformation languages have been currently proposed, the majority of them have been developed in isolation and as a result, they face consistency and integration difficulties with languages that support other model management tasks. We present the Epsilon Transformation Language (ETL), a hybrid model transformation language that has been developed atop the infrastructure provided by the Epsilon model management platform. By building atop Epsilon, ETL is seamlessly integrated with a number of other task-specific languages to help to realize composite model management workflows.

AB - Support for automated model transformation is essential for realizing a Model Driven Development (MDD) process. However, model transformation is only one of the many tools in a model engineering toolkit. To apply MDD in the large, automated support for a number of additional tasks such as model comparison, merging, validation and model-to-text transformation, is essential. While a number of successful model transformation languages have been currently proposed, the majority of them have been developed in isolation and as a result, they face consistency and integration difficulties with languages that support other model management tasks. We present the Epsilon Transformation Language (ETL), a hybrid model transformation language that has been developed atop the infrastructure provided by the Epsilon model management platform. By building atop Epsilon, ETL is seamlessly integrated with a number of other task-specific languages to help to realize composite model management workflows.

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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-69927-9_4

DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-69927-9_4

M3 - Conference contribution

SN - 978-3-540-69926-2

T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science

SP - 46

EP - 60

BT - Theory and Practice of Model Transformations

PB - Springer

ER -