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Enabling the Collaborative Definition of DSMLs

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Abstract

Software development processes are collaborative in nature. Neglecting the key role of end-users leads to software that does not satisfy their needs. This collaboration becomes specially important when creating Domain-Specific Modeling Languages (DSMLs), which are (modeling) languages specifically designed to carry out the tasks of a particular domain. While end-users are actually the experts of the domain for which a DSML is developed, their participation in the DSML specification process is still rather limited nowadays. In this paper we propose a more community-aware language development process by enabling the active participation of all community members (both developers and end-users of the DSML) from the very beginning. Our proposal is based on a DSML itself, called Collaboro, which allows representing change proposals on the DSML design and discussing (and tracing back) possible solutions, comments and decisions arisen during the collaboration.

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  • Community Member
  • Abstract Syntax
  • Notation Model
  • Concrete Syntax
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This work has been supported by the European Commission under the ICT Policy Support Programme, grant no. 317859.

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  1. AtlanMod, École des Mines de Nantes – INRIA – LINA, Nantes, France

    Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo & Jordi Cabot

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  1. Centre de Recherches en Informatique, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne, Paris, France

    Camille Salinesi

  2. Institute for Information Systems, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

    Moira C. Norrie

  3. Centro de Investigación en Métodos de Producción de Software, Universitat Politècnica de València, Valencia, Spain

    Óscar Pastor

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Cánovas Izquierdo, J.L., Cabot, J. (2013). Enabling the Collaborative Definition of DSMLs. In: Salinesi, C., Norrie, M.C., Pastor, Ó. (eds) Advanced Information Systems Engineering. CAiSE 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7908. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-38709-8_18

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