A Systematic Approach to Metamodeling Environments and Model Transformation Systems in VMTS

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• 作者：Tihamé ; r Levendovszky ; Lá ; szló ; Lengyel ; Gergely Mezei ; Hassan Charaf
• 关键词：Metamodeling Environment ; Metamodel-based Transformations ; Model-Driven Software Development ; Software Engineering Tools
• 刊名：Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science
• 出版年：2005
• 出版时间：30 March 2005
• 年：2005
• 卷：127
• 期：1
• 页码：65-75
• 全文大小：306 K

文摘

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.