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* Accepted and presented at the 21st European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 2007), Berlin, Germany.
* Published by Springer in [http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-73589-2_28 LNCS 4609]

== Author ==

* [[Person:Wachsmuth|Guido Wachsmuth]], Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany

== Abstract ==

Like other software artefacts, metamodels evolve over time.
We propose a transformational approach to assist metamodel evolution by stepwise
adaptation.
In the first part of the paper, we adopt ideas from grammar engineering to 
define several semantics- and instance preservation properties in terms of
metamodel relations. 
This part is not restricted to any metamodel formalism.
In the second part, we present a library of QVT Relations for the stepwise 
adaptation of MOF compliant metamodels.
Transformations from this library separate preservation properties.
We distinguish three kinds of adaptation according to these properties; namely
refactoring, construction, and destruction. 
Co-adaptation of  model instances is discussed with respect to of
instance-preservation. 
In most cases, co-adaptation is achieved automatically.
Finally, we point out applications in the areas of metamodel design,
implementation, refinement, maintenance, and recovery.   

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== BibTeX ==

 @InProceedings{wachsmuth:metamodel_adaptation,
   author = 	{Guido Wachsmuth},
   title = 	{Metamodel Adaptation and Model Co-adaptation},
   booktitle = 	{Proceedings of the 21st European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP'07)},
   year = 	2007,
   month = 	jul,
   editor = 	{Erik Ernst},
   series = 	{Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
   volume =     {4609},
   pages =      {600-624},
   publisher = 	{Springer-Verlag}
 }

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