AutoGen: Easing model management through two levels of abstraction

Journal of Visual Languages and Computing

Volumn 17, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 508-527

  Song, Guanglei ^a   Kong, Jun ^b   Zhang, Kang ^a  

^a The University of Texas at Dallas   (United States)

^b NORTH DAKOTA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Graph grammar; Graph transformation; Model management; Schema interoperation; Visual programming

Indexed keywords

EID: 33751549688     PISSN: 1045926X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jvlc.2006.10.004     Document Type: Article

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