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give up the widespread fixation on mainstream tech-
nology, progress will hardly be possible. There is still
a long way to go. Future research needs to address
the development of reference models on different lev-
els of abstraction that are specified with respective
DSML. There is also need to develop advanced pat-
terns of interaction that support the configuration and
modification of models. Last but not least, it is re-
quired to overcome the limitations of current imple-
mentation languages by moving to more flexible lan-
guages architecture like the one XMF is based on.
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