A State-of-the-Art Survey on Software Merging
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Fine-grained metamodel-assisted model comparison
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Model Comparison in Practice
Semantic grouping of model changes
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Model Comparison in Practice
Towards a generic operation recorder for model evolution
Proceedings of the 1st International Workshop on Model Comparison in Practice
Linking design decisions to design models in model-based software development
ECSA'10 Proceedings of the 4th European conference on Software architecture
Capturing the intention of model changes
MODELS'10 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Model driven engineering languages and systems: Part II
Assessing the quality of model-comparison tools: a method and a benchmark data set
Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Model Comparison in Practice
A generic solution for syntax-driven model co-evolution
TOOLS'11 Proceedings of the 49th international conference on Objects, models, components, patterns
ASE '11 Proceedings of the 2011 26th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
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Computing differences (diffs) and merging different versions is well-known for text files, but for models it is a very young field - especially patches for models are still matter of research. Text-based and model-based diffs have different starting points because the semantics of their structure is fundamentally different. This paper reports on our ongoing work on model-independent diffs, i.e. a diff that does not directly refer to the models it was created from. Based on that, we present an idea of how the diff could be generalized, e.g. many atomic diffs are merged to a new, generalized diff. One use of these concepts could be a patch for models as it already exists for text files. The advantage of such a generalized diff compared to ‘normal’ diffs is that it is applicable to a higher variety of models.