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This paper describes MATA (Modeling Aspects Using a Transfor-mation Approach), a UML aspect-oriented modeling tool that uses graph transformations to specify and compose aspects. Graph transformations provide a unified approach for aspect modeling. The methods presented here can be applied to any modeling language with a well-defined metamodel. This paper, however, focuses on UML class diagrams, sequence diagrams and state diagrams. MATA takes a different approach to aspect-oriented modeling since there are no explicit join points. Rather, any model element can be a join point and composition is a special case of model transformation. We illustrate MATA on structural and behavioral models for a cell phone example.
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Whittle, J., Jayaraman, P. (2008). MATA: A Tool for Aspect-Oriented Modeling Based on Graph Transformation. In: Giese, H. (eds) Models in Software Engineering. MODELS 2007. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5002. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69073-3_3
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