Developing next generation ADLs through MDE techniques
Proceedings of the 32nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Software Engineering - Volume 1
ByADL: an MDE framework for building extensible architecture description languages
ECSA'10 Proceedings of the 4th European conference on Software architecture
Supporting runtime software architecture: A bidirectional-transformation-based approach
Journal of Systems and Software
TOOLS'11 Proceedings of the 49th international conference on Objects, models, components, patterns
A domain specific language for interactive enterprise application development
WISM'11 Proceedings of the 2011 international conference on Web information systems and mining - Volume Part II
Towards a family of model transformation languages
ICMT'12 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Theory and Practice of Model Transformations
ICMT'12 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Theory and Practice of Model Transformations
Fact or fiction --- reuse in rule-based model-to-model transformation languages
ICMT'12 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Theory and Practice of Model Transformations
Language enrichment for resilient MDE
SERENE'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems
Summary of the Extreme Modeling Workshop (XM'12)
Proceedings of the 2012 Extreme Modeling Workshop
Composing textual modelling languages in practice
Proceedings of the 6th International Workshop on Multi-Paradigm Modeling
Domain-Specific Modeling Languages to improve framework instantiation
Journal of Systems and Software
Querying large models efficiently
Information and Software Technology
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With the emergence of model-driven engineering (MDE), the creation of domain-specific languages (DSLs) is becoming a fundamental part of language engineering. The development cost of a DSL should be modest compared to the cost of developing a general-purpose programming language. Reducing the implementation effort and providing reuse techniques are key aspects for DSL approaches to be really effective. In this paper, we present an approach to build embedded domain-specific languages applying the principles of model-driven engineering. On the basis of this approach, we will tackle reuse of DSLs by defining families of DSLs, addressing reuse both from the DSL developer and user point of views. A family of DSLs will be built up by composing several DSLs, so we will propose composition mechanisms for the abstract syntax, concrete syntax, and model transformation levels of a DSL's definition. Finally, we contribute a software framework to support our approach, and we illustrate the paper with a case study to demonstrate its practical applicability.