Domain engineering is successful in promoting reuse. An approach to domain-specific reuse in service-oriented environments is proposed to facilitate service requesters to reuse Web services. In the approach, we present a conceptual model of domain-specific services (called domain service). Domain services in a certain business domain are modeled by semantic and feature modeling techniques, and ...

Metamodel-based transformations permit descriptions of mappings between models created using different concepts from possibly overlapping domains. This paper describes the basic algorithms used in matching metamodel constructs, and how this match is to be applied. The transformation process facilitates the reuse of models specified in one domain-specific modeling language in another context: an...

Even if they exhibit differences, many DomainSpecific Modeling Languages (DSMLs) share elements from their concepts, notations and semantics. StateCharts is a wellknown family of DSMLs that share many concepts but exhibit notational differences and many execution semantics variants (called Semantic Variation Points – SVPs –). For instance, when two conflicting transitions in a state machine are...

This paper focuses on the potential role of the Object-Role Modeling (ORM) approach to information modeling for the task of domain modeling. Domain modeling concerns obtaining and modeling the language (concepts, terminologies, ontologies) used by stakeholders to talk about a domain. Achieving conceptual clarity and consensus among stakeholders is an important yet often neglected part of system...

Diversity-aware planning consists of generating multiple plans which, while solving the same problem, are dissimilar from one another. Quantitative plan diversity is domain-independent and does not require extensive knowledge-engineering effort, but can fail to reflect plan differences that are relevant to users. Qualitative plan diversity is based on domain-specific characteristics, thus being...

Domain-specific modelling has proved its worth for improving development speed and dependability of applications. By raising the level of abstraction away from the code and towards the structure and behaviour of an application, it also offers good possibilities for generating the same application from the same models, but for a wide variety of client platforms. This paper examines one example o...

This paper presents an exploratory study in the context of composition of domain-specific modeling languages (DSMLs). It aims evaluating a composition method using Ecore-based DSMLs based on xText tool. The study was performed applying the method to modelling a composition of DSMLs from the domain of controlled experiments in software engineering. The study consists of four different DSMLs, who...

Domain-specific modelling languages are normally defined through general-purpose meta-modelling languages like the MOF. While this is satisfactory for many Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) projects, several researchers have identified the need for domain-specific metamodelling (DSMM) languages providing customised meta-modelling primitives aimed at the definition of modelling languages in a speci...

This paper describes a new context for the application of domain-specific languages (DSL) and modeling techniques: that of product production in a software product line (SPL). It briefly describes SPLs and how their products are produced. It then describes the role of DSLs and methods engineering in SPL product production. Specifically, we combine meta-modeling and other domain specific languag...

Software development processes are collaborative in nature. Neglecting the key role of end-users leads to software that does not satisfy their needs. This collaboration becomes specially important when creating Domain-Specific Modeling Languages (DSMLs), which are (modeling) languages specifically designed to carry out the tasks of a particular domain. While end-users are actually the experts o...