A roadmap to domain specific programming languages for environmental modeling: Key requirements and concepts

DSM 2013 - Proceedings of the 2013 ACM Workshop on Domain-Specific Modeling

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 27-32

  Athanasiadis, Ioannis N ^a   Villa, Ferdinando ^b  

^a DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

^b BASQUE CENTRE FOR CLIMATE CHANGE BC3   (Spain)

Author keywords

Domain specific languages; Ecoinformatics; Environmental modeling; Semantic modeling; Software interoperability; Software reuse

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES; PROBLEM ORIENTED LANGUAGES; SEMANTICS;

DOMAIN SPECIFIC LANGUAGES; ECOINFORMATICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MODEL; SEMANTIC MODEL; SOFTWARE INTEROPERABILITY;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY;

EID: 84892934368     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2541928.2541934     Document Type: Conference Paper

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