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Specialisation of Metamodels Using Metamodel Types

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Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development (MODELSWARD 2014)

Part of the book series: Communications in Computer and Information Science ((CCIS,volume 506))

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In order to be able to specialise metamodels and thereby enhance reusability of metamodels, we introduce the notions of metamodel types and subtypes. Model-driven engineering considers models and metamodels as first-class entities, however, there has not been much work on how to type models or metamodels. In this paper we discuss how a metamodel can be enclosed within a class and how this enclosing class defines the type for the metamodel. This allows us to use established object-oriented mechanisms on the metamodel level and supports specialisation of metamodels.

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    Note that the current version of EMOF/Kermeta does not support nesting of classes as discussed in this paper.

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    Henning Berg & Birger Møller-Pedersen

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  1. Université d'Angers/ESEO, Angers, France

    Slimane Hammoudi

  2. University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands

    Luís Ferreira Pires

  3. INSTICC, Setúbal, Portugal

    Joaquim Filipe

  4. Polytechnic Institute of Setúbal, Lisbon, Portugal

    Rui César das Neves

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Berg, H., Møller-Pedersen, B. (2015). Specialisation of Metamodels Using Metamodel Types. In: Hammoudi, S., Pires, L., Filipe, J., das Neves, R. (eds) Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development. MODELSWARD 2014. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 506. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25156-1_6

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