Domin-Specific Language for Enabling End- Users Model-Driven Information System Engineering

This Paper presents an on-going research in the area of Model-Driven Engineering (MDE). The premise is that UML is too unwieldy to serve as the basis for model-driven engineering. We need a smaller, simpler notation with a cleaner semantics. We propose some ideas for a simpler notation with a clean semantics. The result is known as μML, or the Micro-Modelling Language.

• Ahmad F. Subahi
• Anthony J. H. Simons

• Model-driven engineering
• model transformations
• domain-specific languages
• end-user development.

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