2015/11/17 by Katrin Hölldobler, Hölldobler, Katrin, Bernhard Rumpe Ingo Weisemöller +1 · 1 citation
Business, Management and Accounting · Computer Science · #Business Process Modeling and Analysis #FOS: Computer and information sciences #Model-Driven Software Engineering Techniques #Semantic Web and Ontologies #Software Engineering (cs.SE) #cs.SE
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1511.05366
10 listings, 1 figure, Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS)
arxiv created 2015/11/17 · openalex publication_date 2015/11/17 · arxiv updated 2015/11/18 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
Model transformations are helpful to evolve, refactor, refine and maintain models. While domain-specific languages are normally intuitive for modelers, common model transformation approaches (regardless of whether they transform graphical or textual models) are based on the modeling language's abstract syntax requiring the modeler to learn the internal representation of the model to describe transformations. This paper presents a process that allows to systematically derive a textual domainspecific transformation language from the grammar of a given textual modeling language. As example, we apply this systematic derivation to UML class diagrams to obtain a domain-specific transformation language called CDTrans. CDTrans incorporates the concrete syntax of class diagrams which is already familiar to the modeler and extends it with a few transformation operators. To demonstrate the usefulness of the derived transformation language, we describe several refactoring transformations.