Paper Info
Title
A domain-specific modeling approach to realizing user-centric communication
Abstract
Advances in communication devices and technologies are dramatically expanding our communication capabilities and enabling a wide range of multimedia communication applications. The current approach to develop communication-intensive applications results in products that are fragmented, inflexible, and incapable of responding to changing end-users' communication needs. These limitations have resulted in the need for a new development approach of building communication applications that are driven by end-users and that support the dynamic nature of communication-based collaboration. To address this need, the Communication Virtual Machine (CVM) technology has been developed to support rapid specification and automatic realization of user-centric communication applications based on a domain-specific modeling approach. The CVM technology consists of a domain-specific modeling language (DSML), the Communication Modeling Language (CML), that is used to create communication models, and a semantic rich platform, the CVM, that realized the created communication models. In this paper, we report on our experiences of applying a systematic approach to engineering CML and the synthesis of CML models in CVM. Based on a feature model describing the taxonomy of the user-centric communication domain in a network independent manner, we develop the meta-model of CML and its different concrete syntaxes. We also present a behavioral specification (dynamic semantics) of CML that enables the dynamic synthesis of user-centric communication models into an executable form called communication control script. We validated the CML semantics using Kermeta, a meta-programming environment for engineering DSMLs, and evaluated the practicality of our approach using a CVM prototype and a set of experiments. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1002/spe.1081
Softw., Pract. Exper.
Keywords
DocType
Volume
user-centric communication domain,communication control script,user-centric communication model,communication capability,user-centric communication application,communication need,domain-specific modeling approach,communication device,communication model,communication application,multimedia communication application
Journal
42
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0038-0644
7
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.56
12
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Yali Wu1375.73
Andrew A. Allen2485.62
Frank Hernandez3212.68
Robert B. France43315271.06
Peter J. Clarke531839.12