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Ethan Jackson. "The Software Engineering of Domain-Specific Modeling Languages: A Survey Through Examples". Technical report, Institute For Software Integrated Systems (ISIS), ISIS-07-807, March, 2008.

Abstract
This paper presents the fundamental concepts of model-based design to the broader software engineering community. We examine model-based design from the perspective of domain-specific modeling languages (DSMLs). DSMLs capture the structure, behavioral characteristics, and abstractions of complex problem domains. Model transformations defined between language syntaxes serve as high-level specifications of domain-specific compilers. Additionally, transformations are used to change abstraction levels. This paper is example driven and includes examples from a number of tools including ASML [1], Ptolemy II [2], GME [3], and GReAT [4].

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  Modeling Languages: A Survey Through
  Examples</i></a>, Technical report,  Institute
  For Software Integrated Systems (ISIS), ISIS-07-807, March,
  2008.

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  Ethan Jackson. "The Software Engineering of
  Domain-Specific Modeling Languages: A Survey Through
  Examples". Technical report,  Institute For Software
  Integrated Systems (ISIS), ISIS-07-807, March, 2008.

• BibTeX

  @techreport{Jackson08_SoftwareEngineeringOfDomainSpecificModelingLanguages,
      author = {Ethan Jackson},
      title = {The Software Engineering of Domain-Specific
                Modeling Languages: A Survey Through Examples},
      institution = {Institute For Software Integrated Systems (ISIS)},
      number = {ISIS-07-807},
      month = {March},
      year = {2008},
      abstract = {This paper presents the fundamental concepts of
                model-based design to the broader software
                engineering community. We examine model-based
                design from the perspective of domain-specific
                modeling languages (DSMLs). DSMLs capture the
                structure, behavioral characteristics, and
                abstractions of complex problem domains. Model
                transformations defined between language syntaxes
                serve as high-level specifications of
                domain-specific compilers. Additionally,
                transformations are used to change abstraction
                levels. This paper is example driven and includes
                examples from a number of tools including ASML
                [1], Ptolemy II [2], GME [3], and GReAT [4].},
      URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/332.html}
  }
  

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