Language-Driven Engineering: From General-Purpose to Purpose-Specific Languages

Steffen, Bernhard; Gossen, Frederik; Naujokat, Stefan; Margaria, Tiziana

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-91908-9_17

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“…Pyro is still in an early stage of development, and there is a lot of room for improvement, like further enhancing and easing the graphical modeling features, or improving the performance of collaborative modeling by taking advantage of peer-to-peer communication. Pyro is envisioned to enable cross-competence collaboration on a single project in a domain/purpose-specific fashion according to the Language-Driven Engineering (LDE) paradigm [31]. LDE aims at allowing the different stakeholders to formulate their intents in they way they are used to, i.e., in their domain language, and restricted in a fashion that the efforts of the other involved stakeholders are maintained, or as we say, constitute Archimedean points [32] of the considered domain-specific language.…”

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Pyro: Generating Domain-Specific Collaborative Online Modeling Environments

Zweihoff

Naujokat

Steffen

2019

Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering

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We present Pyro, a framework for enabling domain-specific modeling via the internet. Provided with an adequate metamodel specification, Pyro turns your browser into a collaborative, domain-specific, graphical development environment with features reminiscent of desktop IDEs for textual programming languages. The required metamodeling is supported in a high-level, simplicity-driven fashion, and the entire ready-to-run browser-based domain-specific development environment is generated fully automatically. We will illustrate the steps of this development along the realization of a graphical IDE for the Architecture Analysis and Design Language (AADL).

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Pyro: Generating Domain-Specific Collaborative Online Modeling Environments

Zweihoff

Naujokat

Steffen

2019

Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering

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“…In this context, we see the evolution of meta-programming from the classic and traditional UML-driven community and mentality, that we see still prevail in recent surveys [46], towards the more radical approach promoted by Steffen et al via Language Driven Engineering [54] and purpose driven collaboration using purpose specific languages (PSLs) [64]. This is a powerful, yet still niche, area of research and adoption.…”

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The Interoperability Challenge: Building a Model-Driven Digital Thread Platform for CPS

Margaria

Chaudhary

Guevara

et al. 2021

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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With the heterogeneity of the industry 4.0 world, and more generally of the Cyberphysical Systems realm, the quest towards a platform approach to solve the interoperability problem is front and centre to any system and system-of-systems project. Traditional approaches cover individual aspects, like data exchange formats and published interfaces. They may adhere to some standard, however they hardly cover the production of the integration layer, which is implemented as bespoke glue code that is hard to produce and even harder to maintain. Therefore, the traditional integration approach often leads to poor code quality, further increasing the time and cost and reducing the agility, and a high reliance on the individual development skills. We are instead tackling the interoperability challenge by building a model driven/low-code Digital Thread platform that 1) systematizes the integration methodology, 2) provides methods and techniques for the individual integrations based on a layered Domain Specific Languages (DSL) approach, 3) through the DSLs it covers the integration space domain by domain, technology by technology, and is thus highly generalizable and reusable, 4) showcases a first collection of examples from the domains of robotics, IoT, data analytics, AI/ML and web applications, 5) brings cohesiveness to the aforementioned heterogeneous platform, and 6) is easier to understand and maintain, even by not specialized programmers. We showcase the power, versatility and the potential of the Digital Thread platform on four interoperability case studies: the generic extension to REST services, to robotics through the UR family of robots, to the integration of various external databases (for data integration) and to the provision of data analytics capabilities in R.

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“…Those tools, which are fully generated from high-level specifications, support the inclusion of other Eclipse-based DSLs (like the ones developed with Xtext) in a service-oriented fashion [36]. Furthermore, Language-Driven Engineering (LDE) [44] can be facilitated with Cinco, and with the Pyro extension [53,54], Cinco-generated graphical modeling tools become web-based collaborative modeling environments.…”

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“…Domain-specific languages are an ideal means to support this trend and to ultimately help transferring a significant part of the application development to the application expert. Characteristic for this development are two approaches: B Stefan Naujokat stefan.naujokat@tu-dortmund.de Dawid Kopetzki dawid.kopetzki@tu-dortmund.de 1 Chair for Programming Systems, Department of Computer Science, TU Dortmund University, 44227 Dortmund, Germany -Language-Oriented Programming (LOP), which aims at moving program development closer to the application domain by providing developers with dedicated domain functionality [13,20,49], and -Language-Driven Engineering (LDE) which directly involves the application experts in the application development by providing them with dedicated purposespecific (graphical) languages that typically enhance the graphical notation used in the domain already, and that are meant to evolve during the application lifecycle to capture arising new needs [44].…”

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Towards language-to-language transformation

Kopetzki

Lybecait

Naujokat

et al. 2021

Int J Softw Tools Technol Transfer

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This paper proposes a simplicity-oriented approach and framework for language-to-language transformation of, in particular, graphical languages. Key to simplicity is the decomposition of the transformation specification into sub-rule systems that separately specify purpose-specific aspects. We illustrate this approach by employing a variation of Plotkin’s Structural Operational Semantics (SOS) for pattern-based transformations of typed graphs in order to address the aspect ‘computation’ in a graph rewriting fashion. Key to our approach are two generalizations of Plotkin’s structural rules: the use of graph patterns as the matching concept in the rules, and the introduction of node and edge types. Types do not only allow one to easily distinguish between different kinds of dependencies, like control, data, and priority, but may also be used to define a hierarchical layering structure. The resulting Type-based Structural Operational Semantics (TSOS) supports a well-structured and intuitive specification and realization of semantically involved language-to-language transformations adequate for the generation of purpose-specific views or input formats for certain tools, like, e.g., model checkers. A comparison with the general-purpose transformation frameworks ATL and Groove, illustrates along the educational setting of our graphical WebStory language that TSOS provides quite a flexible format for the definition of a family of purpose-specific transformation languages that are easy to use and come with clear guarantees.

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Language-Driven Engineering: From General-Purpose to Purpose-Specific Languages

Cited by 33 publications

References 66 publications

Pyro: Generating Domain-Specific Collaborative Online Modeling Environments

Pyro: Generating Domain-Specific Collaborative Online Modeling Environments

The Interoperability Challenge: Building a Model-Driven Digital Thread Platform for CPS

Towards language-to-language transformation

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