Towards A Model Refactoring Conflict Resolution Algorithm

Conflict resolution is a key problem in research of model refactoring, while the majority of researchers focus on conflicts detection. Conflict resolution is usually performed manually after being analyzed known conflicts. Three categories of conflicts could be resolved which include conflicts of parallel applications of the same rule, symmetric conflicts and asymmetric conflicts. This paper concentrates on automating conflicts resolution so as to realize the automatic model refactoring. This method provides an integrated algorithm based on manual analysis of the three categories of conflicts. This algorithm could preliminarily realize the automatic resolution of conflicts mentioned which are caused by the parallel application of refactoring rules.