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 Content: Front Matter....Pages i-xvii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 Introduction....Pages 3-15 Taxonomy of Fundamental Concepts of Meta-Programming....Pages 17-29 A Background of Meta-Programming Techniques....Pages 31-47 Homogeneous Meta-Programming Techniques with Case Study....Pages 49-77 Structural Heterogeneous Meta-Programming....Pages 79-92 Open PROMOL: A Meta-Language for Heterogeneous Meta-Programming....Pages 93-112 Front Matter....Pages 113-113 A Framework to Deal with Heterogeneous Meta-Programming in Large: Meta-Program Lifecycle....Pages 115-126 A Model-Driven View to Meta-Program Development Process....Pages 127-142 Cognitive Insights into Feature Diagram Notation and Beyond....Pages 143-169 Meta-Programming Task Specification Using Feature-Based Patterns and Domain Program Scenarios....Pages 171-188 Meta-Program Development as a Model Transformation Process....Pages 189-208 Complexity Evaluation of Feature Models and Meta-Programs....Pages 209-237 Front Matter....Pages 239-239 A Framework: How Can Heterogeneous Meta-Programs Be Further Generalized?....Pages 241-251 Meta-Meta-Programming and Equivalent Transformations of Heterogeneous Meta-Programs....Pages 253-277 Multi-Linguistic Aspects of Heterogeneous Meta-Programming in Web Applications....Pages 279-290 Applications of Meta-Programming Methodology....Pages 291-316 Back Matter....Pages 317-326 __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. * 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.