05161 Executive Summary – Transformation Techniques in Software Engineering

Abstract

TrafoDagstuhl brought together representatives of the research
communities in re-engineering, XML processing, model-driven
architecture and other areas of software engineering that involve
grammar- or schema-driven transformations. These various existing
fields and application contexts involve widely varying transformation
techniques – the tradeoffs of which are worth analysing. This
seminar initiated a process of understanding each other's
transformation techniques – their use cases, corresponding methods,
tool support, best practises, and open problems. This process makes it
possible to exchange knowledge and experience between these various
communities. This effort should also help in transposing
transformation concepts from established application fields to new
fields.
This executive summary reports on the conception of the seminar, the
program, outcomes and future work. Most of the material from the
seminar (including abstracts of all talks) as well as additional
papers can be found on the dedicated web site:
http://www.dagstuhl.de/05161/