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CINCO: a simplicity-driven approach to full generation of domain-specific graphical modeling tools

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Even with the help of powerful metamodeling frameworks, the development of domain-specific graphical modeling tools is usually a complex, repetitive, and tedious task, which introduces substantial upfront costs often prohibiting such approaches in practice. In order to reduce these costs, the presented Cinco meta tooling suite is designed to provide a holistic approach that greatly simplifies the development of such domain-specific tools. Our solution is based on the idea to apply the concept of domain specialization also to the (meta-)domain of “domain-specific modeling tools”. Important here is our focus on complex graph-based models, comprising various kinds of nodes and edges together with their individual representation, correlations, and interpretation. This focus allows for high-level specifications of the model structures and functionalities as the prerequisite for push-button tool generation.

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  1. In this context, various terms are commonly used for such DSLs. Often, a “G” for “Graphical” or a “V” for Visual is added, resulting in GDSLs, VDSLs, DSGLs, or DSVLs. All those terms are essentially exchangeable. In this article, we further emphasize the modeling aspect by naming them Domain-Specific Graphical Modeling Languages (or Tools when referring to the frameworks with IDE-like features).

  2. Cinco is developed open source under the Eclipse Public License 1.0. The framework’s binary installer as well as source files, example projects, documentation, and issue tracker is accessible via the Cinco Web site: http://cinco.scce.info.

  3. While the size of the runtime libraries remains stable for all modeling tools, the generated code will of course grow with the complexity of the individual tool.

  4. Java sources were analyzed using David A. Wheeler’s ’SLOCCount’ [98]. For Cinco specifications, we ignored lines containing only whitespaces and curly brackets.

  5. The specification files required to generate the PetriNetModeler are available in the examples section of the Cinco Web site: http://cinco.scce.info.

  6. This is a slightly simplified depiction. In the implementation, a diagram actually contains elements from two different Graphiti metamodels: graphics algorithms and pictogram elements.

  7. For a more detailed introduction to the available model types please refer to [26, 27] and Dime’s web site: http://dime.scce.info.

  8. https://github.com/camunda/camunda-consulting/tree/master/one-time-examples/2015-01-webinars/webinar-cmmn.

  9. As we have a powerful and simplicity-oriented framework for graphical editors at hand, we are developing this gMSL language with Cinco in a bootstrapping fashion.

  10. GME does not directly generate code that needs to be compiled, but a meta specification that can be reloaded within the running tool. This is a short round-trip, but not really live editing, as one has to switch between project and meta project.

  11. We have not included Horus in this comparison, because it is more similar to the scientific workflow approaches with jABC and Bio-jETI [61,62,63] than to Cinco and the other here presented metamodeling tools for arbitrary model types.

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Naujokat, S., Lybecait, M., Kopetzki, D. et al. CINCO: a simplicity-driven approach to full generation of domain-specific graphical modeling tools. Int J Softw Tools Technol Transfer 20, 327–354 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10009-017-0453-6

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