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Reconstructing Complex Metamodel Evolution

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Software Language Engineering (SLE 2011)

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Metamodel evolution requires model migration. To correctly migrate models, evolution needs to be made explicit. Manually describing evolution is error-prone and redundant. Metamodel matching offers a solution by automatically detecting evolution, but is only capable of detecting primitive evolution steps. In practice, primitive evolution steps are jointly applied to form a complex evolution step, which has the same effect on a metamodel as the sum of its parts, yet generally has a different effect in migration. Detection of complex evolution is therefore needed. In this paper, we present an approach to reconstruct complex evolution between two metamodel versions, using a matching result as input. It supports operator dependencies and mixed, overlapping, and incorrectly ordered complex operator components. It also supports interference between operators, where the effect of one operator is partially or completely hidden from the target metamodel by other operators.

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    Sander D. Vermolen, Guido Wachsmuth & Eelco Visser

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    Uwe Aßmann

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Vermolen, S.D., Wachsmuth, G., Visser, E. (2012). Reconstructing Complex Metamodel Evolution. In: Sloane, A., Aßmann, U. (eds) Software Language Engineering. SLE 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6940. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-28830-2_11

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