Guest editorial to the special section on model transformation

摘要

Models have become essential for dealing with the numerous aspects involved in developing and maintaining complex IT systems. Models assist in capturing the relevant aspects of a system from a given perspective and at a precise level of abstraction. Model transformation represents a key activity in model-driven engineering by supporting the definition and implementation of the operations on models, which can provide a chain that enables the automated development of a system from its corresponding models. Furthermore, a model transformation may also be considered a model in its own right, which presents opportunities for higher-order transformations, i.e., transformations that manipulate models representing other model transformations.