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Ethan Jackson, Janos Sztipanovits. "Towards A Formal Foundation For Domain Specific Modeling Languages". Proceedings of the Sixth ACM International Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT’06), Sang Lyul Min, Wang Yi (eds.), ACM, 53-63, October, 2006.

Abstract
Embedded system design is inherently domain specific and typically model driven. As a result, design methodologies like OMG’s model driven architecture (MDA) and model integrated computing (MIC) evolved to support domain specific modeling languages (DSMLs). The success of the DSML approach has encouraged work on the heterogeneous com- position of DSMLs, model transformations between DSMLs, approximations of formal properties within DSMLs, and reuse of DSML semantics. However, in the effort to produce a mature design approach that can handle both the structural and behavioral semantics of embedded system design, many foundational issues concerning DSMLs have been overlooked. In this paper we present a formal foundation for DSMLs and for their construction within metamodeling frameworks. This foundation allows us to algorithmically decide if two DSMLs or metamodels are equivalent, if model transformations preserve properties, and if metamodeling frameworks have meta-metamodels. These results are key to building correct embedded systems with DSMLs.

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  >Towards A Formal Foundation For Domain Specific Modeling
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  International Conference on Embedded Software
  (EMSOFT’06), Sang Lyul Min, Wang Yi (eds.), ACM,
  53-63, October, 2006.

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  Ethan Jackson, Janos Sztipanovits. "Towards A Formal
  Foundation For Domain Specific Modeling Languages".
  Proceedings of the Sixth ACM International Conference on
  Embedded Software (EMSOFT’06), Sang Lyul Min, Wang
  Yi (eds.), ACM, 53-63, October, 2006.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{JacksonSztipanovits06_TowardsFormalFoundationForDomainSpecificModelingLanguages,
      author = {Ethan Jackson and Janos Sztipanovits},
      title = {Towards A Formal Foundation For Domain Specific
                Modeling Languages},
      booktitle = {Proceedings of the Sixth ACM International
                Conference on Embedded Software (EMSOFT’06)},
      editor = {Sang Lyul Min, Wang Yi},
      organization = {ACM},
      pages = {53-63},
      month = {October},
      year = {2006},
      abstract = {Embedded system design is inherently domain
                specific and typically model driven. As a result,
                design methodologies like OMG’s model driven
                architecture (MDA) and model integrated computing
                (MIC) evolved to support domain specific modeling
                languages (DSMLs). The success of the DSML
                approach has encouraged work on the heterogeneous
                com- position of DSMLs, model transformations
                between DSMLs, approximations of formal properties
                within DSMLs, and reuse of DSML semantics.
                However, in the effort to produce a mature design
                approach that can handle both the structural and
                behavioral semantics of embedded system design,
                many foundational issues concerning DSMLs have
                been overlooked. In this paper we present a formal
                foundation for DSMLs and for their construction
                within metamodeling frameworks. This foundation
                allows us to algorithmically decide if two DSMLs
                or metamodels are equivalent, if model
                transformations preserve properties, and if
                metamodeling frameworks have meta-metamodels.
                These results are key to building correct embedded
                systems with DSMLs.},
      URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/286.html}
  }
  

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