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Domain-Specific Modeling Language (DSML) defined by informal way cannot precisely represent its structural semantics, so properties of models such as consistency cannot be systematically analyzed and verified. In response, the paper proposes an approach for automatically reasoning consistency of DSML. Firstly, we establish a formal framework for DSML based on first-order logic; and then, an automatic mapping mechanism for formalizing DSML is defined; based on this, we present our method for verifying consistency of DSML and its models based on first-order logical inference; finally, the automatic mapping engine for formalizing DSML and its models is designed to show the feasibility of our formal method.
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Jiang, T., Wang, X., Huang, LD. (2014). An Approach for Automatically Reasoning Consistency of Domain-Specific Modelling Language. In: Miao, D., Pedrycz, W., Ślȩzak, D., Peters, G., Hu, Q., Wang, R. (eds) Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology. RSKT 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8818. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11740-9_28
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