Metamodel Matching: Experiments and Comparison

Recently, Model Driven Engineering (MDE) has been proposed for supporting the development, maintenance and evolution of software systems. Model Driven Architecture (MDA), Software Factories and Eclipse Modeling Framework (EMF) are representative MDE approaches. These MDE approaches have some concepts and techniques in common such as modeling, metamodels and model transformation. However, other concepts and techniques should be envisaged such as metamodel matching. In this paper, we discuss some issues and provide some insights into metamodel matching. For this purpose, we use UML and the C# platform to illustrate our approach and to evaluate our Mapping Tool for MDE (MT4MDE) and Semi-Automatic Matching Tool for MDE (SAMT4MDE). Afterwards, comparisons with other tools are presented.