Motivating Use Cases for the Globalization of DSLs

Abstract

Abstract. The development of complex software-intensive systems involves many stakeholders who contribute their expertise on specific aspects of the system under construction. Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are typically used by stakeholders to express their knowledge of the system using dedicated tools and abstractions. In this chapter, we explore different scenarios that lead to the globalization of DSLs through two motivating case studies -a command and control wind tunnel and a smart emergency response system -and outline the concrete engineering challenges they raise. Finally, we list some of the general research challenges related to the globalization of DSMLs and discuss some promising approaches for addressing them.

Informing Possible Future Worlds

“…We contribute to this anthology in honour of Ulrich Frank as we have hold him in high esteem for his professional expertise, his willingness to engage in discussion and the lively exchange of ideas for many years. Some of his research highlights which we appreciate very much are his work towards open reference models (Frank and Strecker 2007), the evaluation of reference models (Frank 2007), and his contribution to globalizing domainspecific languages (Cheng et al 2015) together with the lively discussions in the related Dagstuhl seminar. His research on a method for designing domain-specific modeling languages , inspired us to restructure our initial approach for a domain-specific modeling method to create languages for the ambient assistance domain (Michael and Mayr 2015).…”