Awesome MDE

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

Introductory materials

General MDE

• Model-Driven Software Engineering in Practice - Introduction by Marco Brambilla, Jordi Cabot and Manuel Wimmer
• Foundations of Model-Driven Software Engineering by Jochen Kuster
• 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
  • Emfatic (textual syntax for Ecore)

• Language engineering

  • Jetbrains MPS

• Model-to-model transformation languages

  • ATL
  • Epsilon Transformation Language (ETL)
  • MOF Query/View/Transformation (QVT)

• Model-to-text transformation languages

  • Epsilon Generation Language (EGL)

• Model validation languages

  • Epsilon Validation Language (EVL)

• Model visualisation

  • Picto (model visualisation through lazy model-to-text transformation to HTML, Graphviz and PlantUML)

• Textual modelling

  • Flexmi (reflective textual syntax for EMF-based models, with XML and YAML flavours)