Metamodel-driven definition of a visual modeling language for specifying interactive groupware applications: An empirical study

Journal of Systems and Software

Volumn 86, Issue 7, 2013, Pages 1772-1789

  Molina, Ana I ^a   Gallardo, Jesús ^b   Redondo, Miguel A ^a   Ortega, Manuel ^a   Giraldo, William J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ZARAGOZA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DEL QUINDÍO   (Colombia)

Author keywords

DSL; Groupware design; Interaction Design; MDE; Metamodel

Indexed keywords

DOMAIN SPECIFIC LANGUAGES; GROUPWARE DESIGN; INTERACTION DESIGN; INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS; MDE; META MODEL; MODEL-DRIVEN ENGINEERING; VISUAL MODELING LANGUAGES;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK; DSL; MODELS; PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS; TOOLS;

GROUPWARE;

EID: 84879921378     PISSN: 01641212     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jss.2012.07.049     Document Type: Article

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