A Unified Template for Model Transformation Design Patterns

Design patterns are of tremendous value to developers when faced with recurring problems [1]. Given their various applications and uses, model transformations would benefit tremendously from design patterns as well. Although several studies have proposed design patterns for model transformation[2,3,4,5,6], there is still no accepted common language to express them. In this paper, we propose a unified template to describe model transformation design patterns based on the analysis of existing model transformation design pattern studies. We have also initiated a unified template candidate that is suitable for the purpose, along with an actual model transformation design pattern adapted to the unified template.