Paper Info
Title
OntoDSL: An Ontology-Based Framework for Domain-Specific Languages
Abstract
Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are high-level and should provide abstractions and notations for better understanding and easier modeling of applications of a special domain. Current shortcomings of DSLs include learning curve and formal semantics. This paper reports on a novel approach that allows the use of ontologies to describe DSLs. The formal semantics of OWL together with reasoning services allow for addressing constraint definition, progressive evaluation, suggestions, and debugging. The approach integrates existing metamodels, concrete syntaxes and a query language. A scenario in which domain models for network devices are created illustrates the development environment.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-04425-0_32
MoDELS
Keywords
Field
DocType
concrete syntax,novel approach,better understanding,special domain,domain model,constraint definition,domain-specific languages,domain-specific language,development environment,current shortcoming,ontology-based framework,formal semantics,query language,domain specific language,learning curve
Domain-specific language,Ontology (information science),Ontology,Notation,Query language,Programming language,Computer science,Networking hardware,Theoretical computer science,Domain model,Debugging
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5795
0302-9743
25
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.94
20
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tobias Walter111710.92
Fernando Silva Parreiras224422.23
Steffen Staab36658593.89