Speaker
Dr
Patricia Conde Muíño
(LIP-Lisbon)
Description
With the project PHEASANT a DSVQL was proposed for the purpose of providing a tools
that could increase user's productivity while producing query code for data analysis.
The previous project aimed at the proof concept and methodology feasability by
introducing the concept of DSLs. We are now concetrated on implementation issues in
order to deploy a final tool.
The concept of domain specific languages has always been implicit in Software
Engineering altough the development of such languages was never done in a systematic
way. The main goal of having DSLs is to rise the level of abstraction, as the main
idea is to provide the final user (stakeholder) tools to reason and model the
solution by using concepts of the problem domain instead of having to reason with
concepts of the problem domain (
meaning the implementation details like programming concepts and hardware
restrictions). Once we have the model specifyed, we can use Model Driven Development
and Software Product Lines techniques to deploy artifacts in a automatic way
(meaning: software products, code, documentation etc).The SE community has been
focusing its attention to methodologies and deploy tools for helping DSL developers
in their effort to help productivity and effiency at several application domains
such as HEP. These tools start to mature and it worths having a look in order to
avoid "redoing the wheel".
In this communication we will present the several technologies for DSLs meta-modeling
studied in order to implement the DSVQL proposed by the PHEASANT project.
Primary authors
Prof.
Vasco Amaral
(UNL (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Portugal)
Mr
Vasco Sousa
(UNL (Universidade Nova de Lisboa), Portugal)
