Citation
Jonathan Sprinkle, Gabor Karsai. "A Domain-Specific Visual Language For Domain Model Evolution". Journal of Visual Languages & Computing, 15(3-4):291-307, June 2004.

Abstract
Domain-specific visual languages (DSVLs) are concise and useful tools that allow the rapid development of the behavior and/or structure of applications in well-defined domains. These languages are typically developed specifically for a domain, and have a strong cohesion to the domain concepts, which often appear as primitives in the language. The strong cohesion between DSVL language primitives and the domain is a benefit for development by domain experts, but can be a drawback when the domain evolves – even when that evolution appears insignificant. This paper presents a domain specific visual language developed expressly for the evolution of domain-specific visual languages, and uses concepts from graph-rewriting to specify and carry out the transformation of the models built using the original DSVL.

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  Jonathan Sprinkle, Gabor Karsai. "A Domain-Specific
  Visual Language For Domain Model Evolution".
  <i>Journal of Visual Languages &
  Computing</i>, 15(3-4):291-307, June 2004.

• BibTeX

  @article{SprinkleKarsai04_DomainSpecificVisualLanguageForDomainModelEvolution,
      author = {Jonathan Sprinkle and Gabor Karsai},
      title = {A Domain-Specific Visual Language For Domain Model
                Evolution},
      journal = {Journal of Visual Languages \& Computing},
      volume = {15},
      number = {3-4},
      pages = {291-307},
      month = {June},
      year = {2004},
      abstract = {Domain-specific visual languages (DSVLs) are
                concise and useful tools that allow the rapid
                development of the behavior and/or structure of
                applications in well-defined domains. These
                languages are typically developed specifically for
                a domain, and have a strong cohesion to the domain
                concepts, which often appear as primitives in the
                language. The strong cohesion between DSVL
                language primitives and the domain is a benefit
                for development by domain experts, but can be a
                drawback when the domain evolves – even when
                that evolution appears insignificant. This paper
                presents a domain specific visual language
                developed expressly for the evolution of
                domain-specific visual languages, and uses
                concepts from graph-rewriting to specify and carry
                out the transformation of the models built using
                the original DSVL.},
      URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/746.html}
  }
  

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