Much of the current work on model transformations seems essentially operational and
executable in nature. Executable descriptions are necessary from the point of view of …

Refactoring is a widely accepted technique to improve the structure of object-oriented
software. Nevertheless, existing tool support remains restricted to automatically applying …

The crucial point in Model Driven Architecture (MDA) is that software and system
development are based on abstract models that are successively transformed into more …

Abstract Model-driven software engineering promotes the use of models and
transformations as primary artifacts. Several formalisms can be used for the specification of …

A taxonomy of model transformations was introduced in [T. Mens, PV Gorp, A taxonomy of
model transformation, in: Proc. Int'l Workshop on Graph and Model Transformation (GraMoT …

Model transformations are one of the core technologies needed to apply OMG's model-
driven engineering concept for the construction of real-world systems. Several formalisms …

This document describes smells and refactorings found in literature used for quality
assurance of UML models. We focus on model smells and model refactorings applicable in …

ABSTRACT The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) proposes model transformations to obtain
an executable model from a platform independent model. Unless one uses an interpreter the …

In one embodiment of the invention, a method for profile mapped model transformation for
model driven architecture (MDA) development of service provisioning applications can be …

The “model-driven development of model transformations” requires both a technique to
model model transformations as well as a means to transform transformation models …