A PROLOG-based Approach to Representing and Querying Software Engineering Models

Striving toward the vision of Model Driven development (MDD), we face many open questions connected to the elementary tasks involved in working with models. Probably the most basic task is querying models for properties, elements, and submodels. Current tools and interfaces for model querying are either restricted in their expressiveness or require a high level of expertise in the underlying metamodels and/or query languages. As the application of MDD is gaining more widespread acceptance and more and more developers are involved with MDD efforts, this state is becoming a bottleneck. In this paper, we propose a Prolog-based model representation and query interface for models to overcome this bottleneck.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: VL
• Authors: Harald Störrle
• Keywords: Languages, MDD Efforts, Metamodels And/or Query, Model Driven Development, VL 2007