The Epsilon Generation Language

Rose, Louis M.; Paige, Richard F.; Kolovos, Dimitrios S.; Polack, Fiona

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-69100-6_1

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“…Languages like the Epsilon Generation Language (EGL) [65], Xpand [66,67] and Acceleo [68] can be used for model-to-text transformations specifically. Xtend [69,70], a Java-like language, is not a dedicated transformation language but it is used to perform both M2M and M2T transformations [48].…”

Section: Model Managementmentioning

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Type Inference in Flexible Model-Driven Engineering

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Matragkas

Devlin

et al. 2015

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Model-driven Engineering (MDE) is an approach to software development that promises increased productivity and product quality. Domain models that conform to metamodels, both of which are the core artefacts in MDE approaches, are manipulated to perform different development processes using specific MDE tools.However, domain experts, who have detailed domain knowledge, typically lack the technical expertise to transfer this knowledge using MDE tools. Flexible or bottom-up Model-driven Engineering is an emerging approach to domain and systems modelling that tackles this challenge by promoting the use of simple drawing tools to increase the involvement of domain experts in MDE processes. In this approach, no metamodel is created upfront but instead the process starts with the definition of example models that will be used to infer a draft metamodel. When complete knowledge of the domain is acquired, a final metamodel is devised and a transition to traditional MDE approaches is possible. However, the lack of a metamodel that encodes the semantics of conforming models and of tools that impose these semantics bears some drawbacks, among others that of having models with nodes that are unintentionally left untyped. In this thesis we propose the use of approaches that use algorithms from three different research areas, that of classification algorithms, constraint programming and graph similarity to help with the type inference of such untyped nodes. We perform an evaluation of the proposed approaches in a number of randomly generated example models from 10 different domains with results suggesting that the approaches could be used for type inference both in an automatic or a semi-automatic style. 3For my parents Despoina and Michalis

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Section: Model Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Type Inference in Flexible Model-Driven Engineering

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Devlin

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Finally, The Epsilon Generation Language (EGL) is a model-to-text transformation language defined at the core of the Epsilon Platform [14]. EGL provides an API to construct a transformation trace.…”

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“…In particular, DSL compilers are often structured as a sequence of transformations, starting with an input program and eventually generating code. It is well-known that origin tracking [16] and model traceability [1,8,12,13,14] provide valuable information for debugging, error reporting and visualization.…”

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Tracing Program Transformations with String Origins

Inostroza

Storm

Erdweg

2014

Theory and Practice of Model Transformations

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Abstract. Program transformations play an important role in domain-specific languages and model-driven development. Tracing the execution of such transformations has well-known benefits for debugging, visualization and error reporting. In this paper, we introduce string origins, a lightweight, generic and portable technique to establish a tracing relation between the textual fragments in the input and output of a program transformation. We discuss the semantics and the implementation of string origins using the Rascal meta programming language as an example. We illustrate the utility of string origins by presenting data structures and operations for tracing generated code, implementing protected regions, performing name resolution and fixing inadvertent name capture in generated code.

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“…The developer or designer graphically defines the services using Umbra Designer. We have built this tool as an Eclipse plugin, using Graphiti [3] for the visual part, EMF [14] as modelling technology, and the Epsilon Generation Language (EGL) [13] for code generation. After validating the service, the tool generates a Maven project with code synthesized from the service.…”

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Umbra Designer: Graphical Modelling for Telephony Services

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Guerra

Lara

et al. 2013

Modelling Foundations and Applications

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El acceso a la versión del editor puede requerir la suscripción del recurso Access to the published version may require subscription This paper describes Umbra Designer, a novel graphical modelling tool for the visual development of telephony services, from which Java code for the Umbra framework is synthesized. In this way, it is easy to develop ready-to-use services, even by users not familiar with the Java API or the JAIN SLEE standard. We also report on some experiments aimed at measuring the efficiency gain derived from using the graphical tool, compared with coding directly using the Java API.

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The Epsilon Generation Language

Cited by 102 publications

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Type Inference in Flexible Model-Driven Engineering

Type Inference in Flexible Model-Driven Engineering

Tracing Program Transformations with String Origins

Umbra Designer: Graphical Modelling for Telephony Services

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