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Domain-Specific Modeling Languages: Requirements Analysis and Design Guidelines

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In recent years, the development of domain-specific modeling languages has gained remarkable attention. This is for good reasons. A domain-specific modeling language incorporates concepts that represent domain-level knowledge. Hence, systems analysts are not forced to reconstruct these concepts from scratch. At the same time, domain-specific modeling languages contribute to model integrity, because they include already constraints that would otherwise have to be added manually. Even though there has been a considerable amount of research on developing and using domain-specific modeling languages, there is still lack of comprehensive methods to guide the design of these languages. With respect to the complexity and risk related to developing a domain-specific modeling language, this is a serious shortfall. This chapter is aimed at a contribution to filling the gap. At first, it presents guidelines for selecting a metamodeling language. Its main focus is on supporting the process from analyzing requirements to specifying and evaluating a domain-specific modeling language.

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  1. Information Systems and Enterprise Modeling, Institute for Computer Science and Business Information Systems, University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

    Ulrich Frank

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  1. Department of Information Systems, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel

    Iris Reinhartz-Berger

  2. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Dept. Information Systems Engineering, Beer-Sheva, Israel

    Arnon Sturm

  3. Business Information Systems, Middlesex University, London, United Kingdom

    Tony Clark

  4. Software Engineering Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Sholom Cohen

  5. S23M, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

    Jorn Bettin

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Frank, U. (2013). Domain-Specific Modeling Languages: Requirements Analysis and Design Guidelines. In: Reinhartz-Berger, I., Sturm, A., Clark, T., Cohen, S., Bettin, J. (eds) Domain Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36654-3_6

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