Towards Variability-Aware Instance Handling for Model Evolution at Runtime
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Abstract
Model-driven software development addresses the growing need for individualized software and fast-changing requirements. To support timely changes to the software, adaptive object modeling realizes the domain model of an application as a runtime model represented by a changeable metamodel. Users can change both runtime- and metamodel. This leads, in principle, to a user-driven eternal system at runtime. However, model evolution is non-trivial as it introduces the co-evolution problem, i.e., what happens to the instances of an evolved model? Various approaches to address this problem exist. These approaches have weaknesses, leading to a system that ages with each evolution step. This work introduces a novel approach to cope a priori with the evolution of entity models at runtime. The Eternal Subspace Instance (ESI) approach bypasses the co-evolution problem by defining model instances as a "rich"composite structure capturing not just the current state of an instance. ESI are generated from a model extended with metadata specifying variants and versions. This information is used to interpret each ESI individually, independent of its variant and version. This work defines ESIs and proposes a framework for the resulting heterogeneous but variability-aware instances. We evaluate our approach with a publicly available reference implementation called modicio applied to an example scenario.
Details
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings - 2023 49th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications, SEAA 2023 |
| Publisher | Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) |
| Pages | 183-190 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| ISBN (electronic) | 9798350342352 |
| Publication status | Published - 2023 |
| Peer-reviewed | Yes |
Publication series
| Series | Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (SEAA) |
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Conference
| Title | 49th Euromicro Conference Series on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications |
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| Abbreviated title | SEAA 2023 |
| Conference number | 49 |
| Duration | 6 - 8 September 2023 |
| Website | |
| Location | Grand Blue Fafa Resort |
| City | Durres |
| Country | Albania |
External IDs
| ORCID | /0009-0003-6829-4260/work/167217368 |
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| ORCID | /0000-0003-1537-7815/work/168720069 |
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Keywords
- co-evolution, eternal, metamodeling, user-driven