Kevin Lano, Shekoufeh Kolahdouz Rahimi. Model-Driven Development of Model Transformations. In Jordi Cabot, Eelco Visser, editors, Theory and Practice of Model Transformations, Fourth International Conference, ICMT 2011, Zurich, Switzerland, June 27-28, 2011. Proceedings. Volume 6707 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 47-61, Springer, 2011.
In this paper we define a systematic model-driven development process for model transformations based on a precise semantics, and we show how the UML to relational database transformation can be developed and verified using this process.