Towards an Expressivity Benchmark for Mappings based on a Systematic Classification of Heterogeneities

Manuel Wimmer, Gertrude Kappel, Angelika Kusel, Werner Retschitzegger, Johannes Schönböck, Wieland Schwinger

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Abstract

A crucial prerequisite for the success of Model Driven Engineering (MDE) is the seamless exchange of models between different modeling tools demanding for mappings between tool-specific metamodels. Thereby the resolution of heterogeneities between these tool-specific metamodels is a ubiquitous problem representing the key challenge. Nevertheless, there is no comprehensive classification of potential heterogeneities available in the domain of MDE. This hinders the specification of a comprehensive benchmark explicating requirements wrt. expressivity of mapping tools, which provide reusable components for resolving these heterogeneities. Therefore, we propose a feature-based classification of heterogeneities, which accordingly adapts and extends existing classifications. This feature-based classification builds the basis for a mapping benchmark, thereby providing a comprehensive set of requirements concerning expressivity of dedicated mapping tools. In this paper a first set of benchmark examples is presented by means of metamodels and conforming models acting as an evaluation suite for mapping tools.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the First International Workshop on Model-Driven Interoperability (MDI 2010)
PublisherACM Press
Pages32-41
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)978-1-4503-0292-0
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Jan 2010

Publication series

NameACM International Conference Proceeding Series

Fields of science

  • 102 Computer Sciences
  • 106005 Bioinformatics

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