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Many applications in Model-Driven Engineering involve processing multiple models or metamodels. A good example is the comparison and merging of metamodel variants into a common metamodel in domain model recovery. Although there are many sophisticated techniques to process the input dataset, little attention has been given to the initial data analysis, visualization and filtering activities. These are hard to ignore especially in the case of a large dataset, possibly with outliers and sub-groupings. In this paper we present a generic approach for metamodel comparison, analysis and visualization as an exploratory first step for domain model recovery. We propose representing metamodels in a vector space model, and applying hierarchical clustering techniques to compare and visualize them as a tree structure. We demonstrate our approach on two Ecore datasets: a collection of 50 state machine metamodels extracted from GitHub as top search results; and\(\sim \)100 metamodels from 16 different domains, obtained from AtlanMod Metamodel Zoo.
The research leading to these results has been funded by EU programme FP7-NMP-2013-SMALL-7 under grant agreement number 604279 (MMP).
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Babur, Ö., Cleophas, L., van den Brand, M. (2016). Hierarchical Clustering of Metamodels for Comparative Analysis and Visualization. In: Wąsowski, A., Lönn, H. (eds) Modelling Foundations and Applications. ECMFA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9764. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42061-5_1
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