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A Projection-Based Approach for Development of Domain-Specific Languages

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Perspectives in Business Informatics Research (BIR 2018)

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The article is related to the problem of sustainable flexibility of a domain-specific language (DSL) in response to evolution of the application domain and users’ capabilities. We offer a solution of that problem based on a particular model-driven approach. We propose to create a DSL structure from the domain-semantic-model (DSM) through the so-called semantic projection mechanism. The semantic projection is an operation, which is conducted over DSM. The result of the projection is a fragment of DSM, which describes the semantic model of a particular DSL dialect. We suggest to apply a group of model-to-model (M2M) transformations for practical implementation of semantic projections and producing corresponding DSL artefacts. We demonstrate the application of the proposed approach by the example in railway allocation domain.

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  1. National Research University Higher School of Economics, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia

    Boris Ulitin, Eduard Babkin & Tatiana Babkina

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  2. Riga Technical University, Riga, Latvia

    Jānis Grabis

  3. Université de Paris 1 Panthéon - Sorbonne, Paris, France

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    Janis Stirna

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Ulitin, B., Babkin, E., Babkina, T. (2018). A Projection-Based Approach for Development of Domain-Specific Languages. In: Zdravkovic, J., Grabis, J., Nurcan, S., Stirna, J. (eds) Perspectives in Business Informatics Research. BIR 2018. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 330. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-99951-7_15

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