Model Construction with External Constraints: An Interactive Journey from Semantics to Syntax

  • Authors:
  • Mikoláš Janota;Victoria Kuzina;Andrzej Wąsowski

  • Affiliations:
  • Lero, University College Dublin, Ireland;IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark;IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark

  • Venue:
  • MoDELS '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Mainstream development environments have recently assimilated guidance technologies based on constraint satisfaction. We investigate one class of such technologies, namely, interactive guided derivation of models, where the editing system assists a designer by providing hints about valid editing operations that maintain global correctness. We provide a semantics-based classification of such guidance systems and investigate concrete guidance algorithms for two kinds of modeling languages: a simple subset of class-diagram-like language and for feature models. Both algorithms are efficient and provide exhaustive guidance.