Pounamu: A meta-tool for exploratory domain-specific visual language tool development

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 80, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 1390-1407

  Zhu, Nianping ^a   Grundy, John ^a   Hosking, John ^a   Liu, Na ^a   Cao, Shuping ^a   Mehra, Akhil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Domain specific languages; Meta CASE; Meta tools; Visual design environments

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; INTEGRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

DOMAIN SPECIFIC VISUAL LANGUAGE TOOLS; META MODEL SPECIFICATIONS; VISUAL DESIGN ENVIRONMENTS;

FORMAL LANGUAGES;

EID: 34248545078     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2006.10.028     Document Type: Article

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