Awesome MDE

A curated list of awesome model-driven engineering (MDE) resources.

Introductory materials

• General MDE

  • Foundations of Model-Driven Software Engineering by Jochen Kuster
  • Model-Driven Software Engineering in Practice - Introduction by Marco Brambilla, Jordi Cabot and Manuel Wimmer
  • Matters of (Meta-) Modeling by Thomas Kuhne
  • Model-driven engineering by D.C. Schimdt

• Domain-specific languages (DSL)

  • Domain-Specific Modelling Languages: the need for Modelling Language Engineering by Hans Vangheluwe
  • Modelling Languages: (mostly) Concrete (Visual) Syntax by Hans Vangheluwe
  • Domain-Specific Languages by Javier Canovas
  • Real world DSL – making technical and business people speaking the same language by Mario Fusco

• Model transformations

  • Model Transformation by Eugene Syriani and Hans Vangheluwe
  • Explicitly Modeling Transformations by Thomas Kuhne, Gergely Mezei, Eugene Syriani, Hans Vangheluwe and Manuel Wimmer
  • Road to a reactive and incremental model transformation platform: three generations of the VIATRA framework by Daniel Varro, Gabor Bergmann, Abel Hegedus, Akos Horvath, Istvan Rath and Zoltan Ujhelyi

• Tools and frameworks

  • Modeling
    • Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) Tutorial by Lars Vogel
  • Model transformations
    • VIATRA - VIsual Automated model TRAnsformations
  • DSLs
    • Xtext - a textual language engineering framework
    • Sirius - a visual language engineering framework
    • AToMPM - A tool for Multi-Paradigm Modeling

Methods and Techniques

Tools

• Metamodeling
  • metaDepth
• Language engineering
  • Jetbrains MPS
• Model transformations
  • ATL