On the behavioral semantics of real-time domain specific visual languages

  • Authors:
  • José E. Rivera;Francisco Durán;Antonio Vallecillo

  • Affiliations:
  • GISUM, Atenea Research Group, Universidad de Málaga, Spain;GISUM, Atenea Research Group, Universidad de Málaga, Spain;GISUM, Atenea Research Group, Universidad de Málaga, Spain

  • Venue:
  • WRLA'10 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Rewriting logic and its applications
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Domain specific visual languages (DSVLs) are becoming commonplace for specifying systems at a high-level of abstraction, using a notation very close to the problem domain and quite intuitive for domain experts. Usually, DSVLs are defined only in terms of their abstract and concrete syntaxes, with no precise semantics--something that may hamper the use of tools to simulate or analyze the produced models. In this paper we show how rewriting logic, and in particular Real-Time Maude, can be effectively used to provide semantics to realtime DSVLs, and how these Maude specifications can be automatically generated from the visual specifications. The use of Real-Time Maude provides additional interesting benefits, such as being able to simulate the DSVL specifications or to conduct formal analysis on them.