Maintaining views incrementally
SIGMOD '93 Proceedings of the 1993 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
Inconsistency Management for Multiple-View Software Development Environments
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Feature-based survey of model transformation approaches
IBM Systems Journal - Model-driven software development
Towards Propagation of Changes by Model Approximations
EDOCW '06 Proceedings of the 10th IEEE on International Enterprise Distributed Object Computing Conference Workshops
Combinators for bidirectional tree transformations: A linguistic approach to the view-update problem
ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (TOPLAS) - Special issue on POPL 2005
Incremental Maintenance of Software Artifacts
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
Towards automatic model synchronization from model transformations
Proceedings of the twenty-second IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
Metamodel-based tool integration with moflon
Proceedings of the 30th international conference on Software engineering
Incremental model transformation for the evolution of model-driven systems
MoDELS'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
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Most modern model driven software development environments rely heavily on model transformations for generating various software design artifacts and eventually even source code. However, during development, maintenance and evolution activities, these software artifacts are subject to updates and refactoring operations. In such model driven development environments, these software artifacts need to be re-synchronized every time one of them is altered, so that they all remain consistent according to some specific rules, relations and domain constraints. Until now, the standard approach to model synchronization has been the re-application of all transformation rules, aiming thus for the complete re-generation of all artifacts in all models involved. This complete re-application is a safe yet computationally expensive way to ensure consistency among models. In this paper, we present a method for re-synchronizing software models in an incremental fashion by utilizing an indexing model. In this respect, using the proposed methodology, the time required for maintaining global model consistency is proportional to the size of the changes and not that of the models involved. The proposed approach has been applied for the incremental re-synchronization of large and complex models in the Eclipse Web Tools Platform (WTP). Results indicate that this solution can significantly reduce the time required to re-synchronize models in such comprehensive development environments as WTP.