Automating first-order relational logic
SIGSOFT '00/FSE-8 Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGSOFT international symposium on Foundations of software engineering: twenty-first century applications
Feature-based survey of model transformation approaches
IBM Systems Journal - Model-driven software development
UMLtoCSP: a tool for the formal verification of UML/OCL models using constraint programming
Proceedings of the twenty-second IEEE/ACM international conference on Automated software engineering
USE: A UML-based specification environment for validating UML and OCL
Science of Computer Programming
Incremental pattern matching in the viatra model transformation system
Proceedings of the third international workshop on Graph and model transformations
15 Years of Triple Graph Grammars
ICGT '08 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Graph Transformations
Model Transformation as an Optimization Problem
MoDELS '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Automated Diagnosis of Product-Line Configuration Errors in Feature Models
SPLC '08 Proceedings of the 2008 12th International Software Product Line Conference
Towards Model Round-Trip Engineering: An Abductive Approach
ICMT '09 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Model Transformations
Solving Constraints in Model Transformations
ICMT '09 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Model Transformations
Bidirectional Transformations: A Cross-Discipline Perspective
ICMT '09 Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Theory and Practice of Model Transformations
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
MoDELS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Satellite Events at the MoDELS
Practical declarative model transformation with tefkat
MoDELS'05 Proceedings of the 2005 international conference on Satellite Events at the MoDELS
Model search: formalizing and automating constraint solving in MDE platforms
ECMFA'10 Proceedings of the 6th European conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications
KM3: a DSL for metamodel specification
FMOODS'06 Proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 6.1 international conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems
Incremental model synchronization for efficient run-time monitoring
MODELS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Models in Software Engineering
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In model-driven engineering, model transformations are considered a key element to generate and maintain consistency between related models. Rule-based approaches have become a mature technology and are widely used in different application domains. However, in various scenarios, these solutions still suffer from a number of limitations that stem from their injective and deterministic nature. This article proposes an original approach, based on non-deterministic constraint-based search engines, to define and execute bidirectional model transformations and synchronizations from single specifications. Since these solely rely on basic existing modeling concepts, it does not require the introduction of a dedicated language. We first describe and formally define this model operation, called transformation as search, then describe a proof-of-concept implementation and discuss experiments on a reference use case in software engineering.