Metamodel-driven evolution
Qichao Liu · 2010
With the rapid development of model-driven engineering (MDE), domain-specific modeling is becoming a popular software development technique. In MDE, a metamodel represents a schema definition of the syntax and static semantics in a similar manner to how a grammar defines a programming language. In most cases, users need to modify a metamodel to incorporate new concerns resulting in failure of applying existing instances. The research described in this paper makes a contribution toward metamodel driven evolution.