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>> Hi,
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>> I am the current lead of the AMW component (AtlanMod Model Weaver),
>> which is hosted under the GMT project.
>>
>> The purpose of AMW is to enable establishing links between model
>> elements, which can be used in a variety of applications
>> (
http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/amw/usecases/
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http://www.eclipse.org/gmt/amw/usecases/>). These links are stored in
>> a weaving model. One of the most common use case is to establish
>> declarative relationships (links) between model elements, manually or
>> semi-automatically (this is called matching). These links are used to
>> generate transformation models, for instance, in ATL.
>>
>> Since the GMT project will be deactivated in the future, I am
>> searching for a new place to host AMW and I think the most appropriate
>> place to migrate AMW is as a component under the M2M project, since
>> AMW enables relating 2 (or more) models, but it is not only related to
>> model transformation. In addition, there are two projects (Operational
>> QVT and ATL) that could be used together with AMW (it already works
>> with ATL).
>>
>> The AMW component has been activated in 2005 and it has always had a
>> user community. The interest about model weaving has recently
>> increased, since model transformations are starting to have mature
>> solutions and people are realizing that sometimes they need more than
>> just model transformations. For instance, this interest is
>> demonstrated by two recent works that has been published in top
>> conferences:
>>
>> - Supporting Model-Driven Development of Object-Relational Database
>> Schemas: a Case Study. Juan M. Vara, Belén Vela, Verónica Bollati &
>> Esperanza Marcos. Theory and Practice of Model Transformations.
>> LNCS-5563 (Springer Verlag). ICMT 2009, Zurich, Switzerland.
>> - Davide Di Ruscio, Ivano Malavolta, Henry Muccini, Patrizio
>> Pelliccione, and Alfonso Pierantonio, Developing next generation ADLs
>> through MDE techniques, In ICSE 2010, Cape Town - South Africa
>>
>> With respect to the resources allocated to the project, in 2007 I have
>> moved to the industry (IBM) and I didn't had resources to improve the
>> tool. However, I have always supported the users through the
>> newsgroup. I have recently changed jobs to work in the University of
>> Parana', Brazil, and now I am able to allocate some resources to
>> improve the tool. In addition, some guys that worked on the papers
>> above (from University of Rey Juan Carlos and University of l'Aquila)
>> are willing to collaborate as well.
>>
>> Could you give your position about my request of migration of AMW to
>> the M2M project?
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> Marcos.
>>
>>
http://www.inf.ufpr.br/didonet/
>> Assistant professor
>> Centro Politecnico - Departamento de Informatica
>> Federal University of Parana', Curitiba, Brazil
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