A modeling language's evolution driven by tight interaction between academia and industry
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 2
Towards a DSM-based framework for the development of complex simulation systems
Proceedings of the 2011 Summer Computer Simulation Conference
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Model-based development methodologies are gaining ground as software applications are getting more and more complex while the pressure to decrease time-to-market continually increase. Domain-specific modeling tools that support system analysis, simulation, and automatic code generation can increase productivity. However, most domain-specific model translators are still manually written. This paper presents a technique that automatically generates a domain-specific application programming interface from the same metamodels that are used to define the domain-specific modeling language itself. This facilitates the creation of domain-specific model translators by providing a high-level abstraction hiding all the cumbersome modeling tool-specific implementation details from the developer. The approach is illustrated using the Generic Modeling Environment and the Microsoft .NET C# language.