Supporting design patterns in graph rewriting-based model transformation

Model transformations appear in many, different situations in a model-based development process. A few representative examples are as follows: refining the design to implementation, aspect weaving, analysis, and verification. In object-oriented software design, design patterns describe simple and elegant solutions to specific problems. Similarly, design pattern should be identified in model transformations as well to support the frequently appearing problems. This paper introduces the design pattern support of a modelling and model transformation framework (Visual Modeling and Transformation System). Furthermore, we discuss two model-based development related design patterns.