@Article{DBLP:journals/jss/DamEWRL16,
  author    = {Hoa Khanh Dam and Alexander Egyed and Michael Winikoff and Alexander Reder and Roberto E. Lopez{-}Herrejon},
  title     = {Consistent Merging of Model Versions},
  journal   = {Journal of Systems and Software},
  year      = {2016},
  volume    = {112},
  pages     = {137--155},
  abstract  = {While many engineering tasks can, and should be, manageable independently,
	it does place a great burden on explicit collaboration needs including
	the need for frequent and incremental merging of artifacts that software
	engineers manipulate using these tools. State-of-the-art merging
	techniques are often limited to textual artifacts (e.g., source code)
	and they are unable to discover and resolve complex merging issues
	beyond simple conflicts. This work focuses on the merging of models
	where we consider not only conflicts but also arbitrary syntactic
	and semantic consistency issues. Consistent artifacts are merged
	fully automatically and only inconsistent/conflicting artifacts are
	brought to the users attention, together with a systematic proposal
	of how to resolve them. Our approach is neutral with regard to who
	made the changes and hence reduces the bias caused by any individual
	engineers limited point of view. Our approach also applies to arbitrary
	design or models, provided that they follow a well-defined metamodel
	with explicit constraints the norm nowadays. The extensive empirical
	evaluation suggests that our approach scales to practical settings.},
  bibsource = {dblp computer science bibliography, http://dblp.org},
  biburl    = {http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bib/journals/jss/DamEWRL16},
  doi       = {10.1016/j.jss.2015.06.044},
  file      = {:Journals\\JSS 2015 - Consistent Merging of Model Versions\\Consistent Merging of Model Versions-preprint.pdf:PDF},
  keywords  = {FWF P21321, FWF P25513},
  timestamp = {Sun, 03 Jan 2016 12:58:13 +0100},
  url       = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jss.2015.06.044},
}