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Model driven engineering is the key paradigm in many large system development efforts today. A good versioning system for models is essential for change management and coordinated development of these systems. Support for conflict detection and reconciliation is one of the key functionalities of a versioning system. A large system uses a large number of different kinds of models, each specifying a different aspect of the system. The notion of conflict is relative to the semantics of a meta-model. Hence conflicts should be detected and reported in a meta-model specific way. In this paper we discuss a general purpose model versioning system that can work with models of any meta-model, and a graph-pattern based approach for specifying conflicts in a meta-model specific way. We also present an efficient algorithm that uses these graph-patterns to detect conflicts at the right level of abstraction.
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Rajbhoj, A., Reddy, S. (2013). A Graph-Pattern Based Approach for Meta-Model Specific Conflict Detection in a General-Purpose Model Versioning System. In: Moreira, A., Schätz, B., Gray, J., Vallecillo, A., Clarke, P. (eds) Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems. MODELS 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8107. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41533-3_26
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