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2015 | Buch

Globalizing Domain-Specific Languages

International Dagstuhl Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, October 5-10, 2014, Revised Papers

herausgegeben von: Benoit Combemale, Betty H.C. Cheng, Robert B. France, Jean-Marc Jézéquel, Bernhard Rumpe

Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buchreihe : Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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The development of modern complex software-intensive systems often involves the use of multiple DSMLs that capture different system aspects. Supporting coordinated use of DSMLs leads to what we call the globalization of modeling languages, that is, the use of multiple modeling languages to support coordinated development of diverse aspects of a system.

In this book, a number of articles describe the vision and the way globalized DSMLs currently assist integrated DSML support teams working on systems that span many domains and concerns to determine how their work on a particular aspect influences work on other aspects.

Globalized DSMLs offer support for communicating relevant information, and for coordinating development activities and associated technologies within and across teams, in addition to providing support for imposing control over development artifacts produced by multiple teams.

DSMLs can be used to support socio-technical coordination by providing the means for stakeholders to bridge the gap between how they perceive a problem and its solution, and the programming technologies used to implement a solution. They also support coordination of work across multiple teams. DSMLs developed in an independent manner to meet the specific needs of domain experts have an associated framework that regulates interactions needed to support collaboration and work coordination across different system domains.

The articles in the book describe how multiple heterogeneous modeling languages (or DSMLs) can be related to determine how different aspects of a system influence each other. The book includes a research roadmap that broadens the current DSML research focus beyond the development of independent DSMLs to one that provides support for globalized DSMLs.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Frontmatter
On the Globalization of Domain-Specific Languages
Abstract
In the software engineering community, research on domain-specific languages (DSLs) is focused on providing technologies for designing languages and tools that enable domain experts to develop system solutions efficiently. Unfortunately, the current lack of support to explicitly relate concepts expressed in different DSLs makes it difficult for software and system engineers to reason about information distributed across models or programs describing different system aspects, at different levels of abstraction. Supporting the coordinated use of DSLs is what we call the globalization of DSLs. In this chapter, we introduce a grand challenge of the globalization of DSLs, and we present a few motivating scenarios for such a grand challenge.
Betty H. C. Cheng, Benoit Combemale, Robert B. France, Jean-Marc Jézéquel, Bernhard Rumpe
Conceptual Model of the Globalization for Domain-Specific Languages
Abstract
Domain Specific Languages (DSL) have received some prominence recently. Designing a DSL and all their tools is still cumbersome and lots of work. Engineering of DSLs is still at infancy, not even the terms have been coined and agreed on. In particular globalization and all its consequences need to be precisely defined and discussed. This chapter provides a definition of the relevant terms and relates them, such that a conceptual model emerges. The authors think that this clarification of terms and the meaning will foster the field of efficient DSL definition and evolution in the future.
Tony Clark, Mark van den Brand, Benoit Combemale, Bernhard Rumpe
Motivating Use Cases for the Globalization of DSLs
Abstract
The development of complex software-intensive systems involves many stakeholders who contribute their expertise on specific aspects of the system under construction. Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are typically used by stakeholders to express their knowledge of the system using dedicated tools and abstractions. In this chapter, we explore different scenarios that lead to the globalization of DSLs through two motivating case studies – a command and control wind tunnel and a smart emergency response system – and outline the concrete engineering challenges they raise. Finally, we list some of the general research challenges related to the globalization of DSMLs and discuss some promising approaches for addressing them.
Betty H. C. Cheng, Thomas Degueule, Colin Atkinson, Siobhan Clarke, Ulrich Frank, Pieter J. Mosterman, Janos Sztipanovits
Globalized Domain Specific Language Engineering
Abstract
This chapter is dedicated to discussing the engineering aspects involved in the integration of modeling languages, as an essential part of the globalization process. It covers the foundations of language integration, the definition of the relationships between the languages to be integrated, and the various dimensions of language and tool integration. Language variants, evolution, refactoring and retirement are also discussed, as key issues involved in the globalization of modeling languages.
Barrett Bryant, Jean-Marc Jézéquel, Ralf Lämmel, Marjan Mernik, Martin Schindler, Friedrich Steinmann, Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, Antonio Vallecillo, Markus Völter
Domain Globalization: Using Languages to Support Technical and Social Coordination
Abstract
When a project is realized in a globalized environment, multiple stakeholders from different organizations work on the same system. Depending on the stakeholders and their organizations, various (possibly overlapping) concerns are raised in the development of the system. In this context a Domain Specific Language (DSL) supports the work of a group of stakeholders who are responsible for addressing a specific set of concerns. This chapter identifies the open challenges arising from the coordination of globalized domain-specific languages. We identify two types of coordination: technical coordination and social coordination. After presenting an overview of the current state of the art, we discuss first the open challenges arising from the composition of multiple DSLs, and then the open challenges associated to the collaboration in a globalized environment.
Julien Deantoni, Cédric Brun, Benoit Caillaud, Robert B. France, Gabor Karsai, Oscar Nierstrasz, Eugene Syriani
Backmatter
Metadaten
Titel
Globalizing Domain-Specific Languages
herausgegeben von
Benoit Combemale
Betty H.C. Cheng
Robert B. France
Jean-Marc Jézéquel
Bernhard Rumpe
Copyright-Jahr
2015
Electronic ISBN
978-3-319-26172-0
Print ISBN
978-3-319-26171-3
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26172-0

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