Introduction Blended modeling aims at boosting the development of complex multi-domain
systems by enabling seamless multi-notation modeling. The synchronization mechanisms …

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSs) integrate information, sensor, control, and
communication technologies to provide transport related services. Their users range from …

Conceptual modelling is one of the core disciplines within business informatics. Often,
different metamodels have to be integrated to provide project specific or domain specific …

Cloud computing is a modern paradigm that significantly reduces development, deployment
and maintenance cost of software systems. Model Driven Engineering (MDE) is system …

Abstract Purpose The European Union set up a European management system for rail
traffic: the ERTMS system to ensure, in full safety, train circulation on different European …

Development and application of formal languages are a long-standing challenge within the
computer science domain. One particular challenge is the acceptance of industry. This …

Technological importance of traceability mappings for model transformations is well-known,
but they have often been considered as an auxiliary element generated during the …

With the advent of the Model Driven Architecture, models are replacing code as the major
artifact in software development. A critical success factor for this is the possibility to derive …

In rule-based approaches, a model transformation definition tells how an instance of a
source model should be transformed to an instance of a target model. As these models …

Abstract The Single-Pass Language-Driven Incremental Compilation (slic) strategy uses a
series of model-to-model (M2M) transformations to compile a model or program to a …