An approach for the systematic development of domain-specific languages

Software - Practice and Experience

Volumn 39, Issue 15, 2009, Pages 1253-1292

  Strembeck, Mark ^a   Zdun, Uwe ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Applied software engineering; Domain specific languages; Language engineering; Model driven software development

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION DOMAINS; APPLIED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; COMPLEX TASK; DESIGN APPROACHES; DEVELOPMENT PROJECT; DOMAIN-SPECIFIC LANGUAGES; ENGINEERING PROCESS; EXPERIENCE REPORT; IMPLEMENTATION TECHNIQUES; LANGUAGE ENGINEERING; MODEL-DRIVEN SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT; PROTOTYPING; RESEARCH RESULTS; SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT APPROACH; SOFTWARE SYSTEMS; TECHNICAL LEVELS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE; DSL; LINGUISTICS; MODEMS; RESEARCH; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINES; XML;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 70349874815     PISSN: 00380644     EISSN: 1097024X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/spe.936     Document Type: Article

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