Model replication: Transformations to address model scalability

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2008, Pages 1475-1497

  Lin, Yuehua ^a   Gray, Jeff ^a   Zhang, Jing ^a   Nordstrom, Steve ^b   Gokhale, Aniruddha ^b   Neema, Sandeep ^b   Gokhale, Swapna ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA AT BIRMINGHAM   (United States)

^b VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c University of Connecticut   (United States)

Author keywords

Domain specific modeling; Model transformation; Model driven engineering; Scalability

Indexed keywords

MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS;

AS MODELS; AUTOMATED MODELS; BASE MODELS; CASE STUDIES; DESIGN ALTERNATIVES; DIFFERENT DOMAINS; DOMAIN-SPECIFIC MODELING; KEY ENTITIES; MANUAL PROCESSES; MODEL COMPONENTS; MODEL TRANSFORMATION; MODEL TRANSFORMATIONS; MODELING ELEMENTS; SCALABILITY ISSUES;

SCALABILITY;

EID: 55649124381     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: 1097024X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.876     Document Type: Article

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