Model transformation

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Contents 1 Description 2 See also 2.1 Related Concepts 2.2 References 2.3 External links

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The notion of model transformation is central to Model Driven Engineering. A model transformation takes as input a model conforming to a given metamodel and produces as output another model conforming to a given metamodel. If the source and target models are identical the transformation is called endogeneous. If they are different the transformation is called exogeneous. A model transformation may also have several source models and several target models. One of the characteristic of a model transformation is that a transformation is also a model, i.e. it conforms to a given metamodel. This facilitates the definition of Higher Order Transformations (HOTs), i.e. transformations taking other transformations as input and/or transformations producing other transformations as output.

Several Model Transformation Languages (in short MTL) are presently available (see list of available transformation languages).

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• Model Driven Engineering (MDE)
• Model-driven architecture(MDA)
• Domain Specific Language (DSL)
• Model Transformation Language
• Refinement
• Transformation
• Program transformation
• Data transformation
• Graph transformation

[edit] References

• Model Driven Architecture: Applying MDA to Enterprise Computing, David S. Frankel, John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 0-471-31920-1

[edit] External links

• Model-Driven Architecture: Vision, Standards And Emerging Technologies at omg.org
• An Introduction to Model Driven Architecture at ibm.com
• From Object Composition to Model Transformation with the MDA at omg.org
• Czarnecki, K, and Helsen, S : Classification of Model Transformation Approaches. In: Proceedings of the OOPSLA'03 Workshop on the Generative Techniques in the Context Of Model-Driven Architecture, Anaheim, California, USA. Webpublished.
• Portal site MDA and Model Transformation: site access