Implementing a practical declarative logic-based model transformation engine

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Implementing a practical declarative logic-based model transformation engine

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Proceedings of the 2007 ACM symposium on Applied computing table of contents

Seoul, Korea

SESSION: Model transformation table of contents

Pages: 971 - 977

Year of Publication: 2007

ISBN:1-59593-480-4

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Michael Lawley	Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia
Kerry Raymond	Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia

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SIGAPP: ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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ABSTRACT

Declarative approaches to specifying model-model transformation are an attractive approach because they can offer implicit source model traversal, automatic traceability management, implicit target object creation, and implicit rule ordering. However, when proposing such a declarative logic-based transformation language, there are two common objections. One is programmer unfamiliarity with declarative style, and the other is that of perceived performance problems. In this paper we address these issues, discussing the design of specific features of the Tefkat transformation engine intended to facilitate writing and debugging declarative transformation specifications, and describing important implementation techniques used to avoid performance problems.

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