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A Metamodeling Approach to Pattern Specification

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Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2006)

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This paper presents the Pattern Modeling Framework (PMF), a new metamodeling approach to pattern specification for MOF-compliant modeling frameworks and languages. Patterns need to be precisely specified before a tool can manipulate them, and though several approaches to pattern specification have been proposed, they do not provide the scalability and flexibility required in practice. PMF provides a pattern specification language called Epattern, which is capable of precisely specifying patterns in MOF-compliant metamodels. The language is defined as an extension to MOF by adding semantics inspired from the UML composite structure diagram. The language also comes with a graphical notation and a recommended iterative specification process. It also contains features to manage the complexity of specifying patterns and simplify their application and detection in user models. Most importantly, the language is implemented using state-of-the-art technologies that are heavily used by major modeling tool vendors, thus facilitating its adoption.

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  1. Software Quality Engineering Laboratory (SQUALL), Department of Systems and Computer Engineering, Carleton University, 1125 Colonel By Drive, Ottawa, ON K1S 5B6, Canada

    Maged Elaasar, Lionel C. Briand & Yvan Labiche

  2. IBM Canada Ltd, Rational Software, Ottawa Lab, 770 Palladium Dr., Kanata, ON. K2V 1C8, Canada

    Maged Elaasar

  3. Department of Software Engineering, Simula Research Laboratory, Martin Linges v 17, Fornebu, P.O. Box 134, 1325, Lysaker, Norway

    Lionel C. Briand

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  1. Software Composition Group, University of Bern, Switzerland

    Oscar Nierstrasz

  2. Computing Department - InfoLab21, Lancaster University, LA1 4WA, Lancaster, UK

    Jon Whittle

  3. Department of Computer Science and Applied Mathematics, The Weizmann Institute of Science, 76100, Rehovot, Israel

    David Harel

  4. DISI, Università di Genova, Italy

    Gianna Reggio

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Elaasar, M., Briand, L.C., Labiche, Y. (2006). A Metamodeling Approach to Pattern Specification. In: Nierstrasz, O., Whittle, J., Harel, D., Reggio, G. (eds) Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems. MODELS 2006. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 4199. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11880240_34

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