Citation
J. Sprinkle, A. Agrawal, T. Levendovsky, F. Shi, G. Karsai. "Domain Evolution in Visual Languages Using Graph Transformations". In OOPSLA, 2nd ACM OOPSLA Workshop on Domain-Specific Languages, November, 2002.

Abstract
Domain-specific visual programming is a convenient way to hide complexity from the pro-grammer. The careful thought and design that precede the development of any domain-specific visual language restrict the programmer from illegal formalisms, and allow for the rapid determination of the validity of the “program”. Usually, the domain-specific visual language is designed and produced using a metamodel of some sort. However, changes in the metamodel can lead to disastrous results when attempting to process domain-models built according to the original specifications. This paper presents a visual language for trans-forming domain-models that can express the mapping between the meta-models of the “in-put” (i.e. the “old” language) and the “output” (i.e. the “new” language), and uses graph-rewriting techniques to transform the “old” domain-models into the appropriate “new” form.

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  J. Sprinkle, A. Agrawal, T. Levendovsky, F. Shi, G. Karsai.
  "Domain Evolution in Visual Languages Using Graph
  Transformations". In OOPSLA, 2nd ACM OOPSLA Workshop on
  Domain-Specific Languages, November, 2002.

• BibTeX

  @inproceedings{SprinkleAgrawalLevendovskyShiKarsai02_DomainEvolutionInVisualLanguagesUsingGraphTransformations,
      author = {J. Sprinkle and A. Agrawal and T. Levendovsky and
                F. Shi and G. Karsai},
      title = {Domain Evolution in Visual Languages Using Graph
                Transformations},
      booktitle = {In OOPSLA, 2nd ACM OOPSLA Workshop on
                Domain-Specific Languages},
      month = {November},
      year = {2002},
      abstract = {Domain-specific visual programming is a convenient
                way to hide complexity from the pro-grammer. The
                careful thought and design that precede the
                development of any domain-specific visual language
                restrict the programmer from illegal formalisms,
                and allow for the rapid determination of the
                validity of the �program�. Usually, the
                domain-specific visual language is designed and
                produced using a metamodel of some sort. However,
                changes in the metamodel can lead to disastrous
                results when attempting to process domain-models
                built according to the original specifications.
                This paper presents a visual language for
                trans-forming domain-models that can express the
                mapping between the meta-models of the
                �in-put� (i.e. the �old� language) and the
                �output� (i.e. the �new� language), and
                uses graph-rewriting techniques to transform the
                �old� domain-models into the appropriate
                �new� form.},
      URL = {http://chess.eecs.berkeley.edu/pubs/747.html}
  }
  

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