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RESEARCH PRODUCT

Towards Concrete Syntax Based Find for Graphical Domain Specific Languages

Agris SostaksElina Kalnina

subject

Service (systems architecture)Domain-specific languageConcrete syntaxDigital subscriber lineProgramming languageComputer scienceSimple (abstract algebra)0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering020207 software engineering020201 artificial intelligence & image processing02 engineering and technologycomputer.software_genrecomputer

description

One of the main reasons why Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) technologies including Domain-specific modelling languages (DSML) have not reached the expected acceptance in the industry is a poor tool support. One of the features with a limited support even in commercial modelling tools is search (find). Typically, MDE tools support only a simple keyword-based textual search functionality. The same is true for the tools built using Domain-specific language (DSL) tool definition frameworks. It is proposed to provide the concrete syntax-based find functionality as a service of a DSL tool definition framework. The find diagrams are defined in a concrete syntax of a DSL. A definition of a DSL is used to provide a language-specific find functionality in the DSL tool.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2019-09-012019 ACM/IEEE 22nd International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Companion (MODELS-C)
https://doi.org/10.1109/models-c.2019.00038