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Globalized Domain Specific Language Engineering

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Globalizing Domain-Specific Languages

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This chapter is dedicated to discussing the engineering aspects involved in the integration of modeling languages, as an essential part of the globalization process. It covers the foundations of language integration, the definition of the relationships between the languages to be integrated, and the various dimensions of language and tool integration. Language variants, evolution, refactoring and retirement are also discussed, as key issues involved in the globalization of modeling languages.

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Notes

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    We use the term “prodel” to refer to either programs or models.

  2. 2.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Language_Infrastructure.

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    In practice the decision is not so black-and-white but pragmatic: use e.g., modeling tool for the parts it work but yet provide integration for programming tools. (e.g., Visual Studio and Eclipse plug-ins in MetaEdit+). It is also questionable if there will even be such a platform that would be one for all users. For example today while Visual Studio (or Eclipse) are used for programming and some modeling tasks we can’t expect that e.g., interaction specialists, safety engineers, requirements engineers etc. would use IDE style tool.

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    http://martinfowler.com/articles/evodb.html.

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  1. University of North Texas, Denton, USA

    Barrett Bryant

  2. University of Rennes, Rennes, France

    Jean-Marc Jézéquel

  3. University of Koblenz-Landau, Koblenz, Germany

    Ralf Lämmel

  4. University of Maribor, Maribor, Slovenia

    Marjan Mernik

  5. MaibornWolff GmbH, Munich, Germany

    Martin Schindler

  6. FernUniversität in Hagen, Hagen, Germany

    Friedrich Steinmann

  7. MetaCase, Jyväskylä, Finland

    Juha-Pekka Tolvanen

  8. University of Málaga, Málaga, Spain

    Antonio Vallecillo

  9. Independent/itemis, Stuttgart, Germany

    Markus Völter

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    Jean-Marc Jézéquel

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Bryant, B. et al. (2015). Globalized Domain Specific Language Engineering. In: Combemale, B., Cheng, B., France, R., Jézéquel, JM., Rumpe, B. (eds) Globalizing Domain-Specific Languages. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9400. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26172-0_4

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