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Generating domain-specific visual language tools from abstract visual specifications

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posted on 2024-06-13, 09:39 authored by JC Grundy, J Hosking, KN Li, NM Ali, J Huh, RL Li
Domain-specific visual languages support high-level modeling for a wide range of application domains. However, building tools to support such languages is very challenging. We describe a set of key conceptual requirements for such tools and our approach to addressing these requirements, a set of visual language-based metatools. These support definition of metamodels, visual notations, views, modeling behaviors, design critics, and model transformations and provide a platform to realize target visual modeling tools. Extensions support collaborative work, human-centric tool interaction, and multiplatform deployment. We illustrate application of the metatoolset on tools developed with our approach. We describe tool developer and cognitive evaluations of our platform and our exemplar tools, and summarize key future research directions.

History

Journal

IEEE transactions on software engineering

Volume

39

Pagination

487-515

Location

Piscataway. N.J.

ISSN

0098-5589

Language

eng

Publication classification

C Journal article, C1.1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal

Copyright notice

2013, IEEE

Issue

4

Publisher

IEEE