A New Flexible Method for Advising Metamodel Matching

Lamine Lafi, Jamel Feki, Slimane Hammoudi

2014

Abstract

One relevant issue in metamodel matching is how to select the most suitable matching technique to execute for a given couple of metamodels, and how to adjust parameters (e.g., threshold, F-measure, quality). In this paper, we present a flexible method for selecting the most appropriate metamodel matching technique for a given couple of metamodels. The proposed method assists the user to choose the most suitable matching technique that provides good quality of matches. This method relies on a new quality metric called Score and, on using a decision tree. In order to validate our method, we conduct experimental results on ten real-world metamodels and four recent matching techniques.

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Lafi L., Feki J. and Hammoudi S. (2014). A New Flexible Method for Advising Metamodel Matching . In Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD, ISBN 978-989-758-007-9, pages 376-383. DOI: 10.5220/0004714903760383


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@conference{modelsward14,
author={Lamine Lafi and Jamel Feki and Slimane Hammoudi},
title={A New Flexible Method for Advising Metamodel Matching},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,},
year={2014},
pages={376-383},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004714903760383},
isbn={978-989-758-007-9},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,
TI - A New Flexible Method for Advising Metamodel Matching
SN - 978-989-758-007-9
AU - Lafi L.
AU - Feki J.
AU - Hammoudi S.
PY - 2014
SP - 376
EP - 383
DO - 10.5220/0004714903760383