On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules
Communications of the ACM
Component-based software engineering: putting the pieces together
Component-based software engineering: putting the pieces together
Managing Model Evolution Using the CCBM Approach
ECBS '08 Proceedings of the 15th Annual IEEE International Conference and Workshop on the Engineering of Computer Based Systems
Formal Definition of MOF 2.0 Metamodel Components and Composition
MoDELS '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Interfaces and Metainterfaces for Models and Metamodels
MoDELS '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
A Lightweight Approach for Defining the Formal Semantics of a Modeling Language
MoDELS '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
A canonical scheme for model composition
ECMDA-FA'06 Proceedings of the Second European conference on Model Driven Architecture: foundations and Applications
Structuring very large domain models: experiences from industrial MDSD projects
Proceedings of the Fourth European Conference on Software Architecture: Companion Volume
Models within models: taming model complexity using the sub-model lattice
FASE'11/ETAPS'11 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Fundamental approaches to software engineering: part of the joint European conferences on theory and practice of software
Transformation of Typed Composite Graphs with Inheritance and Containment Structures
Fundamenta Informaticae - Recent Developments in the Theory of Graph Transformation, 2010
Weaving-based configuration and modular transformation of multi-layer systems
MODELS'12 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Towards a distributed modeling process based on composite models
FASE'13 Proceedings of the 16th international conference on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering
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Model composition is a technique for building bigger models from smaller models, thus allowing system designers to control the complexity of a model-driven design process. However many current model composition techniques are themselves complex in the sense that they merge the internal elements of the participating models in non-trivial ways. In this paper we apply some of the ideas from modular programming to reduce the complexity of model compositions. Indeed we propose a model composition technique with a modular flavor that treats the participating models as black boxes. Our technique has several desirable features: it is simple, it does not require a separate language for expressing the composition, and the understanding of the resulting composed model is made easier by the modular nature of the model composition.