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A '''model transformation''', in [[model-driven engineering]], is an automated way of modifying and creating models. An example use of model transformation is ensuring that a family of [[Computer model|model]]s is consistent, in a precise sense which the software engineer can define. The aim of using a model transformation is to save effort and reduce errors by automating the building and modification of models where possible.

A '''model transformation''', in [[model-driven engineering]], is an automated way of modifying and creating models[[platform-specific model]] from platform-independent ones. An example use of model transformation is ensuring that a family of [[Computer model|model]]s is consistent, in a precise sense which the software engineer can define. The aim of using a model transformation is to save effort and reduce errors by automating the building and modification of models where possible.

== Overview ==

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=== Endogenous versus exogenous ===

Endogenous transformations are transformations between models expressed in the same language. Exogenous transformations are transformations between models expressed using different languages.<ref>Tom Mens, Pieter Van Gorp: A Taxonomy of Model Transformation. Electr. Notes Theor. Comput. Sci. 152: 125-142 (2006)</ref> For example, in a process conforming to the [[Object Management Group|OMG]] [[Model Driven Architecture]], a [[platform-independent model]] might be transformed into a [[platform-specific model]] by an exogenous model transformation.

=== Unidirectional versus bidirectional ===

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| doi=10.1007/978-3-540-88643-3_10

| last=Stevens

| journalfirst=Perdita | title=Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering II

| first=Perdita

| titlechapter=OnA the UseLandscape of Higher-OrderBidirectional Model Transformations

| title=A landscape of bidirectional model transformations

|author-link=Perdita Stevens

| journal=Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering II

| volume=5235

| pages=408–424

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| year=2008| series=Lecture Notes in Computer Science

| isbn=978-3-540-88642-6

| chapter-url=https://www.pureresearch.ed.ac.uk/wsen/filespublications/9524319/2008_A_Landscape_of_Bidirectional_Model_Transormations.pdff1706efc-3370-472c-b506-bd65680a04b6

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| doi=10.1007/s10270-008-0109-9

| last=Stevens

| first=Perdita |author-link=Perdita Stevens

| title=Bidirectional model transformations in QVT: semantic issues and open questions

| year=2010

| journal=Software and Systems Modeling| volume=9

| pages=7–20

| s2cid=371579

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| url=https://www.pure.ed.ac.uk/ws/files/12628301/bidirectional.pdf

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| last=Tisi

| first=Massimo

| title=Model Driven Architecture - Foundations and Applications

| title=On the Use of Higher-Order Model Transformations

| chapter=On the Use of Higher-Order Model Transformations

| publisher=[[Springer Publishing|Springer]]

| year=2009