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are made to deal with multiple situations.
There is still much room for maturity in model
comparison and it is an important area that must be
in the minds of MDE supporters, as it has many ben-
efits and is widely-applicable. It is our hope that this
survey paper of model comparison acts as a refer-
ence guide for both model-driven engineers and re-
searchers.
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