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Open AccessEngineering recommender systems for modelling languages: concept, tool and evaluation
Recommender systems (RSs) are ubiquitous in all sorts of online applications, in areas like shop**, media broadcasting, travel and tourism, among many others. They are also common to help in software enginee...
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Open AccessModular language product lines: concept, tool and analysis
Modelling languages are intensively used in paradigms like model-driven engineering to automate all tasks of the development process. These languages may have variants, in which case the need arises to deal wi...
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Open AccessParallel mutation testing for large scale systems
Mutation testing is a valuable technique for measuring the quality of test suites in terms of detecting faults. However, one of its main drawbacks is its high computational cost. For this purpose, several appr...
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Modelling assistants based on information reuse: a user evaluation for language engineering
Model-driven engineering (MDE) uses models as first-class artefacts during the software development lifecycle. MDE often relies on domain-specific languages (DSLs) to develop complex systems. The construction ...
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Guest editorial for the theme section on modeling language engineering
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Open AccessCorrection to: Low-code development and model-driven engineering: Two sides of the same coin?
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Guest editorial for the special section on MODELS 2020
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DSMCompare: domain-specific model differencing for graphical domain-specific languages
During the development of a software project, different developers collaborate on creating and changing models. These models evolve and need to be versioned. Over the past several years, progress has been made...
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Open AccessLow-code development and model-driven engineering: Two sides of the same coin?
The last few years have witnessed a significant growth of so-called low-code development platforms (LCDPs) both in gaining traction on the market and attracting interest from academia. LCDPs are advertised as vis...
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Open AccessRecommender systems in model-driven engineering
Recommender systems are information filtering systems used in many online applications like music and video broadcasting and e-commerce platforms. They are also increasingly being applied to facilitate softwar...
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Modelling on mobile devices
Modelling is central to many disciplines in engineering and the natural and social sciences. A wide variety of modelling languages and tools have been proposed along the years, traditionally for static environ...
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Open AccessLanguage Family Engineering with Product Lines of Multi-level Models
Modelling is an essential activity in software engineering. It typically involves two meta-levels: one includes meta-models that describe modelling languages, and the other contains models built by instantiati...
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Wodel-Test: a model-based framework for language-independent mutation testing
Mutation testing (MT) targets the assessment of test cases by measuring their efficiency to detect faults. This technique involves modifying the program under test to emulate programming faults, and assessing ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Towards Twin-Driven Engineering: Overview of the State-of-The-Art and Research Directions
Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are complex physical systems interacting with a considerable number of distributed computing elements for monitoring, control and management. They are currently becoming larger as ...
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AnATLyzer: Static Analysis of ATL Model Transformations
This chapter presents AnATLyzer—a tool for the static analysis of the ATL model transformation language. AnATLyzer is able to statically detect more than 50 types of problems in ATL transformation programs using ...
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Extensible Structural Analysis of Petri Net Product Lines
Petri nets are a popular formalism to represent concurrent systems. However, their standard form does not offer variability support to model and effectively analyse large sets of variants of a given system. Fo...
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Exploiting Results of Model-Based Analysis Tools
Any analysis produces results to be used by analysis users to understand and improve the system being analysed. But what are the ways in which analysis results can be exploited? And how is exploitation of anal...
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Scalable modeling technologies in the wild: an experience report on wind turbines control applications development
Scalability in modeling has many facets, including the ability to build larger models and domain-specific languages (DSLs) efficiently. With the aim of tackling some of the most prominent scalability challenge...
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Comparing and classifying model transformation reuse approaches across metamodels
Model transformations are essential elements of model-driven engineering (MDE) solutions, as they enable the automatic manipulation of models. MDE promotes the creation of domain-specific metamodels, but witho...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Seed Model Synthesis for Testing Model-Based Mutation Operators
In software engineering, mutation consists in injecting small changes in artefacts – like models, programs, or data – for purposes like (mutation) testing, test data generation, and all sorts of search-based meth...
