A functional, comprehensive and extensible multi-platform querying and transformation approach / Tassilo Horn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Horn, Tassilo, author.

Language:

English

German

Subjects (All):

Computer science.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 454 pages) : illustrations; digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Berlin/Germany Logos Verlag Berlin 2016

Berlin, Germany : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This thesis is about a new model querying and transformation approach called FunnyQT which is realized as a set of APIs and embedded domain-specific languages (DSLs) in the JVM-based functional Lisp-dialect Clojure. Founded on a powerful model management API, FunnyQT provides querying services such as comprehensions, quantified expressions, regular path expressions, logic-based, relational model querying, and pattern matching. On the transformation side, it supports the definition of unidirectional model-to-model transformations, of in-place transformations, it supports defining bidirectional transformations, and it supports a new kind of co-evolution transformations that allow for evolving a model together with its metamodel simultaneously. Several properties make FunnyQT unique. Foremost, it is just a Clojure library, thus, FunnyQT queries and transformations are Clojure programs. However, most higher-level services are provided as task-oriented embedded DSLs which use Clojure's powerful macro-system to support the user with tailor-made language constructs important for the task at hand. Since queries and transformations are just Clojure programs, they may use any Clojure or Java library for their own purpose, e.g., they may use some templating library for defining model-to-text transformations. Conversely, like every Clojure program, FunnyQT queries and transformations compile to normal JVM byte-code and can easily be called from other JVM languages. Furthermore, FunnyQT is platform-independent and designed with extensibility in mind. By default, it supports the Eclipse Modeling Framework and JGraLab, and support for other modeling frameworks can be added with minimal effort and without having to modify the respective framework's classes or FunnyQT itself. Lastly, because FunnyQT is embedded in a functional language, it has a functional emphasis itself. Every query and every transformation compiles to a function which can be passed around, given to higher-order functions, or be parametrized with other functions.

Notes:

Thesis approved by the doctoral committee of the Faculty 4: Computer Science at the University Koblenz-Landau in fulfillment with the requirements for obtaining the degree Doktor der Naturwissenschaften (Dr. rer. nat.). -- Title-page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Publisher Number:

https://doi.org/10.30819/4291