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XML-based Metadata Interchange (XMI) is an interchange format for metadata defined in terms of the MOF standard. In addition to supporting the exchange of complete models, XMI supports the exchange of models in differential form. Our paper builds on this feature to examine the possibility of XMI-based generic transformations of UML models. A generic transformation can be configured to generate (via XSLT) a specialized transformation that will be used to transform a UML model. The approach promotes model reuse, speeds up the modeling process and can be used to assure that only predefined semantics (as specialized by an agent) is included in the transformed model.
The research is part of Sonderforschungsbereich (SFB) 501, funded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG).
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Kovse, J., Härder, T. (2002). Generic XMI-Based UML Model Transformations. In: Bellahsène, Z., Patel, D., Rolland, C. (eds) Object-Oriented Information Systems. OOIS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2425. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-46102-7_24
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