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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Joe,</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>This did come up in prior discussions wrt
GREAT. The idea there was to create templatized patterns that could be instantiated
and reused in different transformation contexts. I am not sure to what extent it
has been implemented – perhaps one of the core developers could comment –</span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Sandeep</span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Sandeep Neema</span></font></p>
<p class=MsoAutoSig><font size=3 color=navy face="Times New Roman"><span
style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Research Scientist,</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Institute</span></font><font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'> of Software</span></font><font color=navy><span
style='color:navy'> Integrated Systems, Vanderbilt University</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Phone: 615-343-9996</span></font></p>
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style='font-size:12.0pt;color:navy'>Email: <a
href="mailto:sandeep.k.neema@vanderbilt.edu">sandeep.k.neema@vanderbilt.edu</a></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Tahoma;font-weight:bold'>From:</span></font></b><font size=2
face=Tahoma><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma'> great-users-bounces@list.isis.vanderbilt.edu [mailto:great-users-bounces@list.isis.vanderbilt.edu]
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On Behalf Of </span></b>Joe Porter<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Tuesday, May 09, 2006 9:20
AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> great-users<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> [great-users]
Transformation idioms</span></font></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I have a question:<br>
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Looking at the approach and capabilities of the GReAT toolchain, it seems like
you would want to have some common algorithmic idioms. I'm thinking of
things like finding disjoint subgraphs or spanning trees. One of the
examples also mentioned topological sort. I'm stretching a little here since I
haven't used the tool, but this is a journey of understanding. Is
there a way to do that sort of thing generically for different metamodels, or
are things like that even useful in practice? Or rather, have I missed
something regarding the approach? <br>
<br>
Hopefully all of you that use GReAT on a regular basis can steer me in the
right direction.<br>
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Thanks,<br>
-Joe Porter<br>
Southwest Research Institute</span></font></p>
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