Composing Model Transformations at Runtime - An Approach for Adapting Component-based User Interfaces

Diego Rodríguez-Gracia, Javier Criado, Luis Iribarne, Nicolás Padilla Soriano, Cristina Vicente-Chicote

2012

Abstract

Nowadays, large part of the efforts in software development are focused on achieving systems with an as high as possible level of adaptation. With the traditional technique of model-driven development this can be largely accomplished. The inconvenience of these techniques however, is that the models are usually manipulated at design-time by means of fixed transformation. Furthermore, the transformations that manipulate these models cannot change dynamically according to the current execution context. This paper presents a transformation pattern aimed to adapt architectural models at runtime, this means that these models may change dynamically at runtime. The transformations that produce this model adaptation are not fixed, but dynamically composed by selecting the most appropriate set of rules from those available in a repository. As an example scenario for the application of these transformations, we chose architectural models representing component-based UIs.

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Rodríguez-Gracia D., Criado J., Iribarne L., Padilla Soriano N. and Vicente-Chicote C. (2012). Composing Model Transformations at Runtime - An Approach for Adapting Component-based User Interfaces . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT, ISBN 978-989-8565-19-8, pages 261-266. DOI: 10.5220/0004102702610266


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@conference{icsoft12,
author={Diego Rodríguez-Gracia and Javier Criado and Luis Iribarne and Nicolás Padilla Soriano and Cristina Vicente-Chicote},
title={Composing Model Transformations at Runtime - An Approach for Adapting Component-based User Interfaces},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,},
year={2012},
pages={261-266},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004102702610266},
isbn={978-989-8565-19-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Software Paradigm Trends - Volume 1: ICSOFT,
TI - Composing Model Transformations at Runtime - An Approach for Adapting Component-based User Interfaces
SN - 978-989-8565-19-8
AU - Rodríguez-Gracia D.
AU - Criado J.
AU - Iribarne L.
AU - Padilla Soriano N.
AU - Vicente-Chicote C.
PY - 2012
SP - 261
EP - 266
DO - 10.5220/0004102702610266