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Research and practice for Model Driven Engineering (MDE) have significantly progressed over the last decade for dealing with the increase of complexity within systems during their development and maintenance processes by raising the level of abstraction using models as information storage. New significant approaches, mainly Model Driven Architecture (MDA) defined at the OMG (Object Management Group), “Software Factories” proposed by Microsoft and the Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) from IBM, are born and have been experimented. As models grow in use for developing systems, transformation between models grow in importance. University and industry are seeking for effective and efficient ways to treat transformation as first-class assets in MDE. In order to produce new and more powerful transformations, we argue that the semi-automatic generation of transformation rules is an important challenge in future MDE development to make it easier, faster, and cost-reduced process. In this paper we propose an extended architecture that aims to semi-automate the process of transformation in the context of MDA. This architecture introduces mapping and matching as first class entities in the transformation process, represented by models and metamodels. We will introduce and discuss briefly two main operations “adaptation” and “derivation” which we consider as core techniques for a semi-automatic transformation process in MDA, along with the first two main techniques of matching and mapping. We will introduce a still theoretical idea already adopted in schema matching field of combining many techniques of matching taken from the literature in order to improve the quality of the obtained mappings. This combination will raise the semi-automation level and thereby significantly contribute to results of higher quality. Finally, an illustrative example is presented and related works are discussed.

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Abstract
 1. Introduction
 2. MDE: Overview and transformation process
  2.1 Model Driven Architecture (MDA)
  2.2 Model Transformations: Core concepts and main problems
 3. An architecture for the transformation process
  3.1 From schema matching to metamodel matching
  3.2 The transformation definition
  3.3 For an automatic mapping generation
  3.4 The aspects of automation with the architecture
 4. Matching techniques combination
  4.1 Parallel matches
  4.2 Sequential matches
  4.3 Combination matches
 5. An illustrative example
 6. Related Work
 7. Conclusion and Future Work
 Reference

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저자

• W. Alouini [ FST, Faculté des Sciences de Tunis, Tunis, Tunisia ]
• O. Guedhami [ ISIG, Institut Supérieur d’Informatique et de Gestion, Kairouan, Tunisia ]
• S. Hammoudi [ ESEO, Ecole supérieure de l’Ouest Angers, France ]
• M.Gammoudi [ ESSAIT, Ecole Supérieure des Statistiques de Tunis, Tunisia ]
• D. Lopes [ Federal University of Maranhão, São Luis, Brazil ]

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• 간행물명

  International Journal of Software Engineering and Its Applications

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  월간

• pISSN

  1738-9984

• 수록기간

  2008~2016

• 등재여부

  SCOPUS

• 십진분류

  KDC 505 DDC 605