Peculiarities of language engineering in multi-level environments or: Design by elimination

Ulrich Frank; Tony Clark

doi:10.1145/3550356.3561544

Peculiarities of language engineering in multi-level environments or: Design by elimination

Ulrich Frank, Tony Clark

College of Engineering and Physical Sciences

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Abstract

Multi-level modeling (MLM) facilitates the design of modeling languages because foundational language concepts (defined with "linguistic" metamodels) can be reused on any classification level and consequently frees the developer from the burden of re-specifying these concepts each time a new language is designed. This strength of MLM can be used profitably in teaching since it enables students to specify languages with relatively little effort with associated tool support. However, MLM introduces new features that require existing methods to be extended with user support and which introduce verification challenges. This paper describes these challenges with respect to teaching modeling languages and outlines approaches to address them.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	MODELS '22: ACM/IEEE 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Editors	Thomas Kühn, Vasco Sousa
Publisher	ACM
Pages	424-433
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-9467-3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3550356.3561544
Publication status	Published - 9 Nov 2022
Event	MODELS '22: 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems - Montreal, Canada Duration: 23 Oct 2022 → 28 Nov 2022 https://conf.researchr.org/home/models-2022

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Name	Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: Companion Proceedings
Publisher	ACM

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Conference	MODELS '22: 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Abbreviated title	MODELS '22
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	23/10/22 → 28/11/22
Internet address	https://conf.researchr.org/home/models-2022

Keywords

DSML
Language integration
Software system architecture

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Frank, U., & Clark, T. (2022). Peculiarities of language engineering in multi-level environments or: Design by elimination. In T. Kühn, & V. Sousa (Eds.), MODELS '22: ACM/IEEE 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (pp. 424-433). (Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: Companion Proceedings). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3550356.3561544

Frank, Ulrich ; Clark, Tony. / Peculiarities of language engineering in multi-level environments or: Design by elimination. MODELS '22: ACM/IEEE 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems. editor / Thomas Kühn ; Vasco Sousa. ACM, 2022. pp. 424-433 (Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: Companion Proceedings).

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Frank, U & Clark, T 2022, Peculiarities of language engineering in multi-level environments or: Design by elimination. in T Kühn & V Sousa (eds), MODELS '22: ACM/IEEE 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems. Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: Companion Proceedings, ACM, pp. 424-433, MODELS '22: 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, Montreal, Canada, 23/10/22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3550356.3561544

Peculiarities of language engineering in multi-level environments or: Design by elimination. / Frank, Ulrich; Clark, Tony.
MODELS '22: ACM/IEEE 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems. ed. / Thomas Kühn; Vasco Sousa. ACM, 2022. p. 424-433 (Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: Companion Proceedings).

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