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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 real-time 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.
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Rivera, J.E., Durán, F., Vallecillo, A. (2010). On the Behavioral Semantics of Real-Time Domain Specific Visual Languages. In: Ölveczky, P.C. (eds) Rewriting Logic and Its Applications. WRLA 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6381. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16310-4_12
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