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P. Langer, T. Mayerhofer:
"EMF Profiles: A light-weight extension mechanism for EMF-based models";
Talk: Eclipse DemoCamp Vienna November 2012, Wien (invited); 2012-11-30.

Domain-Specific Modeling Languages (DSMLs) are getting more and more attention as a key element of Model Driven Engineering. As any other software artifact, DSMLs should continuously evolve to adapt to the changing needs of the domain they represent. Unfortunately, right now evolution of DSMLs is a costly process that requires changing the DSML metamodel and re-creating the complete modeling environment. In this talk we present EMF Profiles, an adaptation of the UML Profile concept to DSMLs. Profiles have been a key enabler for the success of UML by providing a lightweight language-inherent extension mechanism which is expressive enough to cover an important subset of extension scenarios. We believe a similar concept for DSMLs would provide a valuable extension mechanism which has been so far neglected by current metamodeling tools.

model-driven engineering, UML Profiles, EMF, Eclipse