A Systematic Approach to Metamodeling Environments and Model Transformation Systems in VMTS |
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Authors: | Tiham r Levendovszky, L szl Lengyel, Gergely Mezei,Hassan Charaf |
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Affiliation: | Department of Automation and Applied Informatics, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary |
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Abstract: | Highly configurable metamodeling environments and graph transformation techniques have been applied successfully in software system modeling and other areas. In this paper a uniform treatment of these two methods is illustrated by a tool called Visual Modeling and Transformation System. The concepts of an n-layer metamodeling environment is outlined with the related topological and attribute issues. Built on metamodeling techniques two alternatives for model transformation are elaborated, namely, the traversal and the graph-rewriting approaches. In our implementation all of the aforementioned mechanisms use metamodel as a common formalism, which can be considered as a uniform basis for storing, creating and transforming visual languages. The feasibility of the approach is illustrated by a transformation which generates C/C++ code from UML statecharts. |
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Keywords: | Metamodeling Environment Metamodel-based Transformations Model-Driven Software Development Software Engineering Tools |
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