Objects, components, and frameworks with UML: the catalysis approach
Objects, components, and frameworks with UML: the catalysis approach
ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology (TOSEM)
Rearchitecting the UML infrastructure
ACM Transactions on Modeling and Computer Simulation (TOMACS)
Requirement Oriented Programming
Selected Papers from the International Seminar on Generic Programming
A comparative study of language support for generic programming
OOPSLA '03 Proceedings of the 18th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programing, systems, languages, and applications
EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework 2.0
EMF: Eclipse Modeling Framework 2.0
Elements of Programming
MODELS '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
On Language-Independent Model Modularisation
Transactions on Aspect-Oriented Software Development VI
Deep meta-modelling with METADEPTH
TOOLS'10 Proceedings of the 48th international conference on Objects, models, components, patterns
The epsilon object language (EOL)
ECMDA-FA'06 Proceedings of the Second European conference on Model Driven Architecture: foundations and Applications
A comparison of rule inheritance in model-to-model transformation languages
ICMT'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Theory and practice of model transformations
Generic model transformations: write once, reuse everywhere
ICMT'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Theory and practice of model transformations
Reusable graph transformation templates
AGTIVE'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Applications of Graph Transformations with Industrial Relevance
Genericity for model management operations
Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)
From types to type requirements: genericity for model-driven engineering
Software and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)
Using model types to support contract-aware model substitutability
ECMFA'13 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications
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Meta-modelling is a key technique in Model Driven Engineering, where it is used for language engineering and domain modelling. However, mainstream approaches like the OMG's Meta-Object Facility provide little support for abstraction, modularity, reusability and extendibility of (meta-)models, behaviours and transformations. In order to alleviate this weakness, we bring three elements of generic programming into meta-modelling: concepts, templates and mixin layers. Concepts permit an additional typing for models, enabling the definition of behaviours and transformations independently of meta-models, making specifications reusable. Templates use concepts to express requirements on their generic parameters, and are applicable to models and meta-models. Finally, we define functional layers by means of metamodel mixins which can extend other meta-models. As a proof of concept we also report on METADEPTH, a multi-level meta-modelling framework that implements these ideas.