Abstract
Domain-specific visual languages (DSVLs) are concise and useful tools that allow the rapid development of the behavior and/or structure of applications in well-defined domains. These languages are typically developed specifically for a domain, and have a strong cohesion to the domain concepts, which often appear as primitives in the language. The strong cohesion between DSVL language primitives and the domain is a benefit for development by domain experts, but can be a drawback when the domain evolves-even when that evolution appears to be insignificant. This paper presents a domain-specific visual language developed expressly for the evolution of domain-specific visual languages, and uses concepts from graph rewriting to specify and carry out the transformation of the models built using the original DSVL.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 291-307 |
| Number of pages | 17 |
| Journal | Journal of Visual Languages and Computing |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue number | 3-4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Jun 2004 |
Keywords
- Domain evolution
- Domain-specific language
- Graph rewriting
- Metamodeling
- XSL
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Human-Computer Interaction
- Computer Science Applications