@ARTICLE{Washizaki17-EMSE-PROMETA,
   AUTHOR       = {Hironori Washizaki and Foutse Khomh and 
      Yann-Ga�l Gu�h�neuc},
   JOURNAL      = {Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)},
   TITLE        = {ProMeTA: A Taxonomy for Program Metamodels in Program 
      Reverse Engineering},
   YEAR         = {2018},
   MONTH        = {August},
   NOTE         = {35 pages. \awardBest paper of JIPS'19.},
   NUMBER       = {4},
   PAGES        = {2323--2358},
   VOLUME       = {23},
   EDITOR       = {Bram Adams and Denys Poshyvanyk},
   KEYWORDS     = {Topic: <b>Program comprehension</b>, Venue: <b>EMSE</b>},
   PUBLISHER    = {Springer},
   URL          = {http://www.ptidej.net/publications/documents/EMSE18a.doc.pdf},
   ABSTRACT     = {To support program comprehension, maintenance, and 
      evolution, metamodels are frequently used during program reverse 
      engineering activities to describe and analyze constituents of a 
      program and their relations. Reverse engineering tools often define 
      their own metamodels according to the intended purposes and features. 
      Although each metamodel has its own advantages, its limitations may 
      be addressed by other metamodels. Existing works have evaluated and 
      compared metamodels and tools, but none have considered all the 
      possible characteristics and limitations to provide a comprehensive 
      guideline for classifying, comparing, reusing, and extending program 
      metamodels. To aid practitioners and researchers in classifying, 
      comparing, reusing, and extending program metamodels and their 
      corresponding reverse engineering tools according to the intended 
      goals, we establish a conceptual framework with definitions of 
      program metamodels and related concepts. We confirmed that any 
      reverse engineering activity can be clearly described as a pattern 
      based on the framework from the viewpoint of program metamodels. Then 
      the framework is used to provide a comprehensive taxonomy, named 
      Program Metamodel TAxonomy (ProMeTA), which incorporates newly 
      identified characteristics into those stated in previous works, which 
      were identified via a systematic literature review (SLR) on program 
      metamodels, while keeping the orthogonality of the entire taxonomy. 
      Additionally, we validate the taxonomy in terms of its orthogonality 
      and usefulness through the classification of popular metamodels.}
}

{"_id":"xgX9xb7fJ7nA3txZR","bibbaseid":"washizaki-khomh-guhneuc-prometaataxonomyforprogrammetamodelsinprogramreverseengineering-2018","author_short":["Washizaki, H.","Khomh, F.","Gu�h�neuc, Y."],"bibdata":{"bibtype":"article","type":"article","author":[{"firstnames":["Hironori"],"propositions":[],"lastnames":["Washizaki"],"suffixes":[]},{"firstnames":["Foutse"],"propositions":[],"lastnames":["Khomh"],"suffixes":[]},{"firstnames":["Yann-Ga�l"],"propositions":[],"lastnames":["Gu�h�neuc"],"suffixes":[]}],"journal":"Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)","title":"ProMeTA: A Taxonomy for Program Metamodels in Program Reverse Engineering","year":"2018","month":"August","note":"35 pages. \\awardBest paper of JIPS'19.","number":"4","pages":"2323–2358","volume":"23","editor":[{"firstnames":["Bram"],"propositions":[],"lastnames":["Adams"],"suffixes":[]},{"firstnames":["Denys"],"propositions":[],"lastnames":["Poshyvanyk"],"suffixes":[]}],"keywords":"Topic: <b>Program comprehension</b>, Venue: <b>EMSE</b>","publisher":"Springer","url":"http://www.ptidej.net/publications/documents/EMSE18a.doc.pdf","abstract":"To support program comprehension, maintenance, and evolution, metamodels are frequently used during program reverse engineering activities to describe and analyze constituents of a program and their relations. Reverse engineering tools often define their own metamodels according to the intended purposes and features. Although each metamodel has its own advantages, its limitations may be addressed by other metamodels. Existing works have evaluated and compared metamodels and tools, but none have considered all the possible characteristics and limitations to provide a comprehensive guideline for classifying, comparing, reusing, and extending program metamodels. To aid practitioners and researchers in classifying, comparing, reusing, and extending program metamodels and their corresponding reverse engineering tools according to the intended goals, we establish a conceptual framework with definitions of program metamodels and related concepts. We confirmed that any reverse engineering activity can be clearly described as a pattern based on the framework from the viewpoint of program metamodels. Then the framework is used to provide a comprehensive taxonomy, named Program Metamodel TAxonomy (ProMeTA), which incorporates newly identified characteristics into those stated in previous works, which were identified via a systematic literature review (SLR) on program metamodels, while keeping the orthogonality of the entire taxonomy. Additionally, we validate the taxonomy in terms of its orthogonality and usefulness through the classification of popular metamodels.","bibtex":"@ARTICLE{Washizaki17-EMSE-PROMETA,\r\n AUTHOR = {Hironori Washizaki and Foutse Khomh and \r\n Yann-Ga�l Gu�h�neuc},\r\n JOURNAL = {Empirical Software Engineering (EMSE)},\r\n TITLE = {ProMeTA: A Taxonomy for Program Metamodels in Program \r\n Reverse Engineering},\r\n YEAR = {2018},\r\n MONTH = {August},\r\n NOTE = {35 pages. \\awardBest paper of JIPS'19.},\r\n NUMBER = {4},\r\n PAGES = {2323--2358},\r\n VOLUME = {23},\r\n EDITOR = {Bram Adams and Denys Poshyvanyk},\r\n KEYWORDS = {Topic: <b>Program comprehension</b>, Venue: <b>EMSE</b>},\r\n PUBLISHER = {Springer},\r\n URL = {http://www.ptidej.net/publications/documents/EMSE18a.doc.pdf},\r\n ABSTRACT = {To support program comprehension, maintenance, and \r\n evolution, metamodels are frequently used during program reverse \r\n engineering activities to describe and analyze constituents of a \r\n program and their relations. Reverse engineering tools often define \r\n their own metamodels according to the intended purposes and features. \r\n Although each metamodel has its own advantages, its limitations may \r\n be addressed by other metamodels. Existing works have evaluated and \r\n compared metamodels and tools, but none have considered all the \r\n possible characteristics and limitations to provide a comprehensive \r\n guideline for classifying, comparing, reusing, and extending program \r\n metamodels. To aid practitioners and researchers in classifying, \r\n comparing, reusing, and extending program metamodels and their \r\n corresponding reverse engineering tools according to the intended \r\n goals, we establish a conceptual framework with definitions of \r\n program metamodels and related concepts. We confirmed that any \r\n reverse engineering activity can be clearly described as a pattern \r\n based on the framework from the viewpoint of program metamodels. Then \r\n the framework is used to provide a comprehensive taxonomy, named \r\n Program Metamodel TAxonomy (ProMeTA), which incorporates newly \r\n identified characteristics into those stated in previous works, which \r\n were identified via a systematic literature review (SLR) on program \r\n metamodels, while keeping the orthogonality of the entire taxonomy. \r\n Additionally, we validate the taxonomy in terms of its orthogonality \r\n and usefulness through the classification of popular metamodels.}\r\n}\r\n\r\n","author_short":["Washizaki, H.","Khomh, F.","Gu�h�neuc, Y."],"editor_short":["Adams, B.","Poshyvanyk, D."],"key":"Washizaki17-EMSE-PROMETA","id":"Washizaki17-EMSE-PROMETA","bibbaseid":"washizaki-khomh-guhneuc-prometaataxonomyforprogrammetamodelsinprogramreverseengineering-2018","role":"author","urls":{"Paper":"http://www.ptidej.net/publications/documents/EMSE18a.doc.pdf"},"keyword":["Topic: <b>Program comprehension</b>","Venue: <b>EMSE</b>"],"metadata":{"authorlinks":{}}},"bibtype":"article","biburl":"http://www.yann-gael.gueheneuc.net/Work/Publications/Biblio/complete-bibliography.bib","dataSources":["8vn5MSGYWB4fAx9Z4"],"keywords":["topic: <b>program comprehension</b>","venue: <b>emse</b>"],"search_terms":["prometa","taxonomy","program","metamodels","program","reverse","engineering","washizaki","khomh","gu�h�neuc"],"title":"ProMeTA: A Taxonomy for Program Metamodels in Program Reverse Engineering","year":2018}