A metamodel independent framework for model transformation: Towards generic model management patterns in reverse engineering
Zinovy Diskin, Juergen Dingel · 2006
The paper presents a formal algebraic framework, where model translations can be specified in a truly generic way: the source and the target metamodels are parameters of the entire procedure. In more detail, we specify the operation of model translation as a special diagram operation well known in category theory under the name of pull-back. At the heart of the approach is a mapping between the two metamodels, which governs the entire translation procedure.