A flexible infrastructure for multilevel language engineering

IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering

Volumn 35, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 742-755

  Atkinson, Colin ^a   Gutheil, Matthias ^b   Kennel, Bastian ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b ITEMIS AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Language engineering; Metamodeling; Multilevel modeling

Indexed keywords

CONCRETE SYNTAX; CURRENT GENERATION; DOMAIN SPECIFIC; DOMAIN SPECIFIC MODELING; DOMAIN-SPECIFIC MODELING LANGUAGE; END USERS; LANGUAGE ENGINEERING; LINGUISTIC CLASSIFICATION; META MODEL; METAMODELING; MODEL DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT; MODEL ELEMENTS; MODELING INFRASTRUCTURES; MULTI-LEVEL LANGUAGES; MULTILEVEL MODELING; MULTIPLE CLASSIFICATION; PROTOTYPE IMPLEMENTATIONS;

COMPUTATIONAL LINGUISTICS; ONTOLOGY; SOFTWARE PROTOTYPING;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 73549105908     PISSN: 00985589     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TSE.2009.31     Document Type: Article

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