Abstract
Domain-specific languages enable concise and precise formalization of domain concepts and promote direct employment by domain experts. Therefore, syntactic constructs are introduced to empower users to associate concepts and relationships with visual textual symbols. Model-based language engineering facilitates the description of concepts and relationships in an abstract manner. However, concrete representations are commonly attached to abstract domain representations, such as annotations in metamodels, or directly encoded into language grammar and thus introduce redundancy between metamodel elements and grammar elements. In this work we propose an approach that enables autonomous development and maintenance of domain concepts and textual language notations in a distinctive and metamodel-agnostic manner by employing style models containing grammar rule templates and injection-based property selection. We provide an implementation and showcase the proposed notationspecification language in a comparison with state of the art practices during the creation of notations for an executable domain-specific modeling language based on the Eclipse Modeling Framework and Xtext.
| Original language | English |
|---|---|
| Title of host publication | 19th International Workshop in OCL and Textual Modeling, 2019, Munich, Germany, September 15-20, 2019 |
| Editors | Workshop in OCDL and Textual Modeling |
| Number of pages | 10 |
| Publication status | Published - Sept 2019 |
Fields of science
- 202005 Computer architecture
- 202017 Embedded systems
- 102 Computer Sciences
- 102002 Augmented reality
- 102006 Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW)
- 102015 Information systems
- 102020 Medical informatics
- 102022 Software development
- 102034 Cyber-physical systems
- 201132 Computational engineering
- 201305 Traffic engineering
- 207409 Navigation systems
- 502032 Quality management
- 502050 Business informatics
JKU Focus areas
- Digital Transformation