The use of domain-specific languages (DSLs) has become a successful technique in the
development of complex systems. Consequently, nowadays we can find a large variety of …

To cope with the challenge of managing the complexity of automated production systems,
model-based approaches are applied increasingly. However, due to the multitude of …

Programming languages are complex systems that are usually implemented as monolithic
interpreters and compilers. In recent years, researchers and practitioners gained interest in …

Abstract Domain-specific modelling languages are normally defined through general-
purpose meta-modelling languages like the MOF. While this is satisfactory for many model …

Many engineering domains started using generic modeling languages, such as SysML, to
describe or prescribe the systems under development. This raises a gap between the …

Abstract Model-driven engineering (MDE) involves the construction and manipulation of
many models of different kinds in an engineering process. In principle, models can be used …

Code search is an integral part of software development and program comprehension. The
difficulty of code search lies in the inability to guess the exact words used in the code …

Metamodeling has become a crucial technique in the process of software development.
However, the level of metamodeling acceptance is still very low in software development …

Efficient processing of very large models is a key requirement for the adoption of Model-
Driven Engineering (MDE) in some industrial contexts. One of the central operations in MDE …

Requirements traceability modeling is a key issue in real-time embedded design process. In
such systems, requirements are of different nature (software-related, system-related …