Design of Domain-Specific Software Systems with Parametric Code Templates
Domain-specific languages describe specific solutions to problems in the application domain. Traditionally they form a solution composing black-box abstractions together. This, usually, involves non-deep transformations over the target model. In this paper we argue that it is potentially powerful to operate with grey-box abstractions to build a domain-specific software system. We present parametric code templates as grey-box abstractions and conceptual tools to encapsulate and manipulate these templates. Manipulations introduce template-s merging routines and can be defined in a generic way. This involves reasoning mechanisms at the code templates level. We introduce the concept of Neurath Modelling Language (NML) that operates with parametric code templates and specifies a visualisation mapping mechanism for target models. Finally we provide an example of calculating a domain-specific software system with predefined NML elements.
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the Semantic Web, NAFIPS 2005 Annual Meeting of the North American
Fuzzy Information Processing Society, 2005.
[2] P. Pfahler and U. Kastens, Configuring Component-Based Specifications
for Domain-Specific Languages, Proceedings of the 34th Hawaii International
Conference on System Sciences, 2001.
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visual languages," In Workshop on Domain Specific Visual Languages,
in conjunction with ACM Conference on Object-Oriented Programming,
Systems, Languages and Applications OOPSLA-2001, 2001.
[4] Information Visualisation. Tutorial Notes, http://www.iicm.edu/-ivis/-
ivis.pdf, 1998.
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Semantic Content in Diagrams," IEEE Computer Graphics and
Applications, vol. Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. pp. 76-84, 2001.
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icons," AI & Society archive, vol. Vol. 14, Issue 3-4, pp. pp.395-410,
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/ASLTMetaData.pdf, 2006.
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and Runtime Validation of Reactive Web Services (PhD Thesis),
Software Technology Research Laboratory, De Montfort University,
2005.
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to Creating Your First Ontology, Stanford Knowledge Systems Laboratory
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of Reusable Object-Oriented Software. Addison-Wesley.Professional
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