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particular, the metamodel extensions and associated constraints outlined here have
been implemented in a Model-Driven Editor using available UML metamodeling
tools [23].
Acknowledgements.
This is research is funded by FAPES (grant # 45444080/09) and
CNPq (grant # 481906/2009-6) as well as a CNPq research productivity grant.
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