Meta-environment and executable meta-language using smalltalk: An experience report

Software and Systems Modeling

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 5-19

  Ducasse, Stéphane ^a,b   Girba, Tudor ^a   Kuhn, Adrian ^a   Renggli, Lukas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b INRIA   (France)

Author keywords

Executable modeling language; Meta behavior description; Reflective language; Small talk

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; CORUNDUM; EMBEDDED SYSTEMS; FISCHER-TROPSCH SYNTHESIS; INFORMATION THEORY; LINGUISTICS; OBJECT ORIENTED PROGRAMMING; QUERY LANGUAGES; REENGINEERING;

AND ENVIRONMENTS; DOMAIN MODELS; DOMAIN SPECIFICS; EXECUTABLE MODELING LANGUAGE; EXPERIENCE REPORTS; IMPLEMENTATION LANGUAGES; INFRA STRUCTURES; META BEHAVIOR DESCRIPTION; META-LANGUAGES; MODEL DRIVEN; OBJECT-ORIENTED; OPERATIONAL SEMANTICS; REFLECTIVE LANGUAGE; SMALL TALK;

JAVA PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE;

EID: 57349198801     PISSN: 16191366     EISSN: 16191374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10270-008-0081-4     Document Type: Article

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