A Generic Traceability Framework for Model Composition Operation

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In order to handle complexity, model driven engineering aims at building systems by develo** several models, where each model represents a specific concern of the system. In this context, designers need mechanisms to validate, synchronize and understand interactions between those perspectives. Model composition deals with these issues but remains a complex task. For these reasons, we believe that a strong traceability mechanism is a key factor to handle relationships between models and manage the complexity of the composition operation. This paper describes a generic approach to keep track of the model composition operation. We also define a traces generation process to adapt our proposal to any specific composition language. Finally, an example is presented to illustrate our contributions.

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Laghouaouta, Y., Anwar, A., Nassar, M., Bruel, JM. (2015). A Generic Traceability Framework for Model Composition Operation. In: Gaaloul, K., Schmidt, R., Nurcan, S., Guerreiro, S., Ma, Q. (eds) Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2015 2015. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 214. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-19237-6_29

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