Method of higher-order model transformation combined with MDA
一种结合MDA的高阶模型转换方法

Model transformations are the core and research focus of MDA. Nowadays, the MDA development platforms have a set of relatively independent development techniques and transformation frameworks, which causes incompatibility between different platforms and difficulty in reuse of model transformation code. The reason lays on the lack of a platform-independent model of transformation rules corresponding to specific transformation language. To solve these shortcomings, this paper combined higher-order model transformation with model-driven software development, and proposed a kind of general higher-order transformation metamodel which described the model transformation. Furthermore the ATL language, for example, showed the use of higher-order transformation metamodel. At last, it provided a study case to verify its feasibility and availability. The approach improves the abstraction layer of model transformations, reduces the difficulty of the reuse of model transformation language, and solves the incompatible problem of model transformation technology in a way.