UML'00 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on The unified modeling language: advancing the standard
Human comprehensible and machine processable specifications of operational semantics
ECMDA-FA'07 Proceedings of the 3rd European conference on Model driven architecture-foundations and applications
On the behavioral semantics of real-time domain specific visual languages
WRLA'10 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Rewriting logic and its applications
Using smalltalk as a reflective executable meta-language
MoDELS'06 Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Weaving executability into object-oriented meta-languages
MoDELS'05 Proceedings of the 8th 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
The epsilon object language (EOL)
ECMDA-FA'06 Proceedings of the Second European conference on Model Driven Architecture: foundations and Applications
Defining and verifying behaviour of domain specific language with fUML
Proceedings of the Fourth Workshop on Behaviour Modelling - Foundations and Applications
Proceedings of the 7th Workshop on Models@run.time
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When defining a domain-specific modeling language (DSML), the two key components that have to be specified are its syntax and semantics. For specifying a modeling language's abstract syntax, metamodels are the standard means. MOF provides a standardized, well established, and widely accepted metamodeling language enabling the definition of metamodels and the generation of accompanying modeling facilities. However, no such standard means exist for specifying the behavioral semantics of a DSML. This hampers the efficient development of model execution facilities, such as debugging, simulation, and verification. To overcome this limitation, we propose to integrate fUML with MOF to enable the specification of the behavioral semantics for DSMLs in terms of fUML activities. We discuss alternatives how this integration can be achieved and show by-example how to specify the semantics of a DSML using fUML. To reuse existing runtime infrastructures, we further demonstrate the usage of external libraries in fUML-based specifications.