Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Design patterns: elements of reusable object-oriented software
Object-oriented software construction (2nd ed.)
Object-oriented software construction (2nd ed.)
Toward a calculus for abstract syntax trees
Proceedings of the IFIP TC 2 WG 2.1 international workshop on Algorithmic languages and calculi
Generative programming: methods, tools, and applications
Generative programming: methods, tools, and applications
A Comparison of Statecharts Variants
ProCoS Proceedings of the Third International Symposium Organized Jointly with the Working Group Provably Correct Systems on Formal Techniques in Real-Time and Fault-Tolerant Systems
A Lightweight Approach for Defining the Formal Semantics of a Modeling Language
MoDELS '08 Proceedings of the 11th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Template Semantics for Model-Based Notations
IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering
System Model-Based Definition of Modeling Language Semantics
FMOODS '09/FORTE '09 Proceedings of the Joint 11th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference FMOODS '09 and 29th IFIP WG 6.1 International Conference FORTE '09 on Formal Techniques for Distributed Systems
Variability within Modeling Language Definitions
MODELS '09 Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Isabelle/HOL: a proof assistant for higher-order logic
Isabelle/HOL: a proof assistant for higher-order logic
Semantic variations among UML statemachines
MoDELS'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Semantic anchoring with model transformations
ECMDA-FA'05 Proceedings of the First European conference on Model Driven Architecture: foundations and Applications
Enhancing UML extensions with operational semantics behaviored profiles with templates
MODELS'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Integrated definition of abstract and concrete syntax for textual languages
MODELS'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Towards model and language composition
Proceedings of the First Workshop on the Globalization of Domain Specific Languages
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A systematic way of defining variants of a modeling language is useful for adapting the language to domain or project specific needs. Variants can be obtained by adapting the syntax or semantics of the language. In this paper, we take a formal approach to define modeling language variability and show how this helps to reason about language variants, models, and their semantics formally. We introduce the notion of semantic language refinement meaning that one semantics variant is implied by another. Leaving open all variation points that a modeling language offers yields the notion of the inner semantics of that language. Properties of the modeling language which do not depend on the selection of specific variants are called invariant language properties with respect to a variation point. These properties consequently follow from the inner semantics of a model or language.