Software Language Engineering: First International Conference, Sle 2008 Toulouse, France, September 29-30, 2008, Revised Selected Papers

ISBN-13: 9783642004339 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 343 str.

Dragan Gaaevic

Opis

We are pleased to present the proceedings of the First International Conf- ence on Software LanguageEngineering (SLE 2008). The conference was held in th Toulouse, FranceduringSeptember29-30,2008andwasco-locatedwiththe11 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering Languages and Systems (MODELS 2008). The SLE conference series is devoted to a wide range of topics related to arti?cial languages in software engineering. SLE is an international research forum that brings together researchers and practitioners from both industry and academia to expand the frontiers of software language engineering. Historically, SLE emerged from two established workshop series: LDTA, Language Descriptions, Tools, and Applications, which has been a sat- lite event at ETAPS for the last 9 years, and ATEM which has been co-located with MODELS and WCRE for 5 years. SLE'sforemostmissionis to encourageand organizecommunicationbetween communities that have traditionally looked at software languagesfrom di?erent, more specialized, and yet complementary perspectives. SLE emphasizes the f- damental notion of languages as opposed to any realization in speci?c technical spaces. In this context, the term "software language" comprises all sorts of - ti?cial languages used in software development including general-purpose p- gramming languages, domain-speci?c languages, modeling and meta-modeling languages, data models, and ontologies. Software language engineering is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quanti?able approach to the devel- ment, use, andmaintenanceoftheselanguages. TheSLEconferenceisconcerned with all phases of the lifecycle of software languages; these include the design, implementation, documentation, testing, deployment, evolution, recovery, and retirement of languages.

Spis treści

Keynotes.- The Field of Software Language Engineering.- Model-Driven Engineering Meets Generic Language Technology.- Regular Papers.- Evaluating the Visual Syntax of UML: An Analysis of the Cognitive Effectiveness of the UML Family of Diagrams.- Neon: A Library for Language Usage Analysis.- Analyzing Rule-Based Behavioral Semantics of Visual Modeling Languages with Maude.- Parse Table Composition.- Practical Scope Recovery Using Bridge Parsing.- Generating Rewritable Abstract Syntax Trees.- Systematic Usage of Embedded Modelling Languages in Automated Model Transformation Chains.- Engineering a DSL for Software Traceability.- Towards an Incremental Update Approach for Concrete Textual Syntaxes for UUID-Based Model Repositories.- A Model Engineering Approach to Tool Interoperability.- Engineering Languages for Specifying Product-Derivation Processes in Software Product Lines.- Transformation Language Integration Based on Profiles and Higher Order Transformations.- Formalization and Rule-Based Transformation of EMF Ecore-Based Models.- A Practical Evaluation of Using TXL for Model Transformation.- DeFacto: Language-Parametric Fact Extraction from Source Code.- A Case Study in Grammar Engineering.- Sudoku – A Language Description Case Study.- The Java Programmer’s Phrase Book.

Blurb

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Software Language Engineering, SLE 2008, held in Toulouse, France, in September 2008.

The 16 revised full papers and 1 revised short paper presented together with 1 tool demonstration paper and 2 keynote lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 106 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on language and tool analysis and evaluation, concrete and abstract syntax, language engineering techniques, language integration and transformation, language implementation and analysis, as well as language engineering pearls.