Towards model round-trip engineering: an abductive approach

, Lawley, Michael, & (2009) Towards model round-trip engineering: an abductive approach. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5563, Article number: ICMT 2009 100-115.

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Providing support for reversible transformations as a basis for round-trip engineering is a significant challenge in model transformation research. While there are a number of current approaches, they require the underlying transformation to exhibit an injective behaviour when reversing changes. This however, does not serve all practical transformations well. In this paper, we present a novel approach to round-trip engineering that does not place restrictions on the nature of the underlying transformation. Based on abductive logic programming, it allows us to compute a set of legitimate source changes that equate to a given change to the target model. Encouraging results are derived from an initial prototype that supports most concepts of the Tefkat transformation language

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ID Code: 26413
Item Type: Contribution to Journal (Journal Article)
Refereed: Yes
Measurements or Duration: 16 pages
Keywords: Abductive Logic Programming, Model-driven Software Engineering, Round-trip Engineering
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-02408-5_8
ISSN: 0302-9743
Pure ID: 31953153
Divisions: Past > QUT Faculties & Divisions > Faculty of Science and Technology
Past > QUT Faculties & Divisions > Science & Engineering Faculty
Current > Research Centres > Australian Research Centre for Aerospace Automation
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