Concept and pragmatics of an intuitive visualization-oriented metamodeling tool

Dirk Draheim; Melanie Himsl; Daniel Jabornig; Josef Küng; Werner Leithner; Peter Regner; Thomas Wiesinger

doi:10.1016/j.jvlc.2010.03.002

Concept and pragmatics of an intuitive visualization-oriented metamodeling tool

Dirk Draheim, Melanie Himsl, Daniel Jabornig, Josef Küng, Werner Leithner, Peter Regner, Thomas Wiesinger

Institute for Application-oriented Knowledge Processing

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Abstract

In this article we present a metamodeling tool that is strictly oriented towards the needs of the working domain expert. The working domain expert looks for intuitive metamodeling features. In particular, these features include rich capabilities for specifying the visual appearance of models. Our research has identified an important design rationale for metamodeling tools that we call visual reification, which is the notion that metamodels are visualized the same way as their instances. Our tool supports both standard and innovative metamodeling features oriented towards the principle of visual reification. In this paper we present an unbiased discussion of the pragmatics of metamodeling tools against the background of this design rationale.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	157-170
Number of pages	14
Journal	Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
Volume	21
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jvlc.2010.03.002
Publication status	Published - Jun 2010

Fields of science

102 Computer Sciences
102001 Artificial intelligence

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