The growing interest in the MDA (Model-Driven Architecture) and MDD (Model-Driven Development) approaches has largely increased the number of tools and methods including code-generation capabilities. Given a platform-independent model (PIM) of an application, these tools generate (part of) the application code either by defining first a platform-specific model or by executing a direct PIM to co...

Model composition can be viewed in model-driven engineering as an operation where a set of activities should be performed to merge two input models into a single output model. The latter aggregates syntactical and semantic properties from the original models. However, given the growing heterogeneity of model composition strategies, it is particularly challenging for designers to objectively ass...

In MDE, design of systems can be improved and accelerated thanks to reusable models which are made available in model repositories or libraries. This paper focuses on the construction and exploitation of “off-the-shelf” model template bases. Model templates are parameterized models which are adaptable to various application contexts. Due to their parameterization, model templates have their own...