A Formal Approach to the Generation of Visual Language Environments Supporting Multiple Views

  • Authors:
  • Esther Guerra;Paloma Diaz;Juan de Lara

  • Affiliations:
  • Universidad Carlos III Madrid;Universidad Carlos III Madrid;Universidad Autónoma Madrid

  • Venue:
  • VLHCC '05 Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

In this paper we present a formal approach, based on meta-modelling and graph transformation, to the generation of environments for visual languages (VLs) supporting multiple views. The VL syntax is defined by means of a meta-model. Views for the VL are created by selecting the classes, associations, attributes and constraints that are part of them. Once the environment is generated, the view models are translated into a global, unique model where consistency checking and further analysis can be performed by means of graph grammars. These ideas have been newly implemented in the AToM鲁 tool.