Transforming constraint models is an important task in re- cent constraint
programming systems. User-understandable models are defined during the modeling
phase but rewriting or tuning them is manda- tory to get solving-efficient
models. We propose a new architecture al- lowing to define bridges between any
(modeling or solver) languages and to implement model optimizations. This
architecture follows a model- driven approach where the constraint modeling
process is seen as a set of model transformations. Among others, an interesting
feature is the def- inition of transformations as concept-oriented rules, i.e.
based on types of model elements where the types are organized into a hierarchy
called a metamodel
