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Providing support for reversible transformations as a basis for round-trip engineering is a significant challenge in model transformation research. While there are a number of current approaches, they require the underlying transformation to exhibit an injective behaviour when reversing changes. This however, does not serve all practical transformations well. In this paper, we present a novel approach to round-trip engineering that does not place restrictions on the nature of the underlying transformation. Based on abductive logic programming, it allows us to compute a set of legitimate source changes that equate to a given change to the target model. Encouraging results are derived from an initial prototype that supports most concepts of the Tefkat transformation language
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Hettel, T., Lawley, M., Raymond, K. (2009). Towards Model Round-Trip Engineering: An Abductive Approach. In: Paige, R.F. (eds) Theory and Practice of Model Transformations. ICMT 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5563. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02408-5_8
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