Context Most companies, independently of their size and activity type, are facing the
problem of managing, maintaining and/or replacing (part of) their existing software systems …

Model transformations are the key technique in Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) to
manipulate and construct models. As a consequence, the correctness of software systems …

Abstract Model transformation lies at the very core of model-driven engineering, and a large
number of model transformation languages and tools have been proposed over the last few …

There is a rising trend for heterogeneous software applications involving multilingual source
code. The key focus of reverse engineers is to unravel the cross-language links (XLLs) and …

Nowadays, software development teams face the challenge of maintenance and evolution of
large applications. This is known as modernization and comprises a process of …

Migrating existing enterprise software to cloud platforms involves the comparison of
competing cloud deployment options (CDOs). A CDO comprises a combination of a specific …

With the rapid increase in cloud services collecting and using user data to offer personalized
experiences, ensuring that these services comply with their privacy policies has become a …

Legacy system migration to the cloud brings both great challenges and benefits, so there
exist various academic research and industrial applications on legacy system migration to …

Several industrial contexts require software engineering methods and tools able to handle
large-size artifacts. The central idea of abstraction makes model-driven engineering (MDE) a …

Abstract Models capture relevant properties of systems. During the models' life-cycle, they
are subjected to manipulations with different goals such as managing software evolution …