Meta-Programming and Model-Driven Meta-Program Development: Principles, Processes and Techniques (Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing Book 5)

-- Meta-Programming and Model-Driven Meta-Program Development: Principles, Processes and Techniques presents an overall analysis of meta-programming, focusing on insights of meta-programming techniques, heterogeneous meta-program development processes in the context of model-driven, feature-based and transformative approaches. -- The fundamental concepts of meta-programming are still not thoroughly understood, in this well organized book divided into three parts the authors help to address this. Chapters include: -- Taxonomy of fundamental concepts of meta-programming; -- Concept of structural heterogeneous meta-programming based on the original meta-language; -- Model-Driven concept and feature-based modeling to the development process of meta-programs; -- Equivalent meta-program transformations and metrics to evaluate complexity of feature-based models and meta-programs; -- Variety of academic research case studies within different application domains to experimentally verify the soundness of the investigated approaches. -- Both authors are professors at Kaunas University of Technology with 15 years research and teaching experience in the field. Meta-Programming and Model-Driven Meta-Program Development: Principles, Processes and Techniques is aimed at post-graduates in computer science and software engineering and researchers and program system developers wishing to extend their knowledge in this rapidly evolving sector of science and technology