Abstract
In the industrial applications of Model-Based Development, the evolution of modeling languages is an inevitable issue. The migration to the new language involves the reuse of the existing artifacts created for the original language, such as models and model transformations. This paper is devoted to an evolution method for model transformations as well as the related algorithms. The change description is assumed to be available in a modeling language specific to the evolution. Based on the change description, our method is able to automate certain parts of the evolution. When automation is not possible, our algorithms automatically alert the user about the missing semantic information, which can then be provided manually after the automatic part of the interpreter evolution. The algorithms have been implemented and tested in an industrial environment. The results indicate that the semi-automated evolution of model transformations decreases the time and effort required with a manual approach.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Preview
Unable to display preview. Download preview PDF.
References
Angyal, L., Asztalos, M., Lengyel, L., Levendovszky, T., Madari, I., Mezei, G., Mészáros, T., Siroki, L., Vajk, T.: Towards a fast, efficient and customizable domain-specific modeling framework. In: Proceedings of the IASTED International Conference, Innsbruck, Austria, February 2009, vol. 31, pp. 11–16 (2009)
Agrawal, A., Karsai, G., Neema, S., Shi, F., Vizhanyo, A.: The design of a language for model transformations. Software and Systems Modeling 5(3), 261–288 (2006)
Balogh, A., Varró, D.: Advanced model transformation language constructs in the VIATRA2 framework. In: ACM Symposium on Applied Computing — Model Transformation Track (SAC 2006), pp. 1280–1287. ACM Press, New York (2006)
Balasubramanian, D., van Buskirk, C., Karsai, G., Narayanan, A., Neema, S., Ness, B., Shi, F.: Evolving paradigms and models in multi-paradigm modeling. Technical Report ISIS-08-912, Institute for Software Integrated Systems (December 2008)
Ehrig, H., Ermel, C.: Semantical correctness and completeness of model transformations using graph and rule transformation. In: Ehrig, H., Heckel, R., Rozenberg, G., Taentzer, G. (eds.) ICGT 2008. LNCS, vol. 5214, pp. 194–210. Springer, Heidelberg (2008)
Ehrig, H., Ehrig, K., Prange, U., Taentzer, G.: Fundamentals of Algebraic Graph Transformation. Monographs in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series. Springer, Heidelberg (2006)
Karsai, G.: Why is XML not suitable for semantic translation. Research Note, Nashville, TN (April 2000)
Magyari, E., Bakay, A., Lang, A., Paka, T., Vizhanyo, A., Agrawal, A., Karsai, G.: Udm: An infrastructure for implementing domain-specific modeling languages. In: The 3rd OOPSLA Workshop on Domain-Specific Modeling, OOPSLA 2003, Anahiem, California (October 2003)
Mosterman, P.J., Vangheluwe, H.: Computer automated multi-paradigm modeling: An introduction. Simulation: Transactions of the Society for Modeling and Simulation International 80(9), 433–450 (2004); Special Issue: Grand Challenges for Modeling and Simulation
Narayanan, A., Levendovszky, T., Balasubramanian, D., Karsai, G.: Automatic domain model migration to manage metamodel evolution. In: Schürr, A., Selic, B. (eds.) MODELS 2009. LNCS, vol. 5795, pp. 706–711. Springer, Heidelberg (2009)
Nickel, U., Niere, J., Zündorf, A.: The fujaba environment. In: ICSE 2000: Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on Software engineering, pp. 742–745. ACM, New York (2000)
Parisi-Presicce, F.: Transformation of graph grammars. In: 5th Int. Workshop on Graph Grammars and their Application to Computer Science, pp. 428–492 (1996)
Rozenberg, G. (ed.): Handbook of graph grammars and computing by graph transformation. Foundations, vol. I. World Scientific Publishing Co., Inc., River Edge (1997)
Sprinkle, J.: Metamodel Driven Model Migration. PhD thesis, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203 (August 2003)
Taentzer, G.: AGG: A graph transformation environment for modeling and validation of software. In: Pfaltz, J.L., Nagl, M., Böhlen, B. (eds.) AGTIVE 2003. LNCS, vol. 3062, pp. 446–453. Springer, Heidelberg (2004)
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
About this paper
Cite this paper
Levendovszky, T., Balasubramanian, D., Narayanan, A., Karsai, G. (2010). A Novel Approach to Semi-automated Evolution of DSML Model Transformation. In: van den Brand, M., Gašević, D., Gray, J. (eds) Software Language Engineering. SLE 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5969. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12107-4_4
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12107-4_4
Publisher Name: Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
Print ISBN: 978-3-642-12106-7
Online ISBN: 978-3-642-12107-4
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)