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Specialisation of Metamodels Using Metamodel Types

Authors : Henning Berg, Birger Møller-Pedersen

Published in: Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development

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Abstract

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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Metadata
Title
Specialisation of Metamodels Using Metamodel Types
Authors
Henning Berg
Birger Møller-Pedersen
Copyright Year
2015
Book
Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-25155-4

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-25156-1

Copyright Year: 2015

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25156-1_6

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