Graph Drawing and Analysis Library and Its Domain-Specific Language for Graphs’ Layout Specifications

This paper presents a graph drawing and analysis library written in Java called GRAD and its domain-specific language for simplifying the process of laying out graphs. One of GRAD’s main goals is to provide completely automated ways of selecting and configuring a drawing algorithm, based either on the properties of a graph or on a user’s input conforming to the domain-specific language. In order to verify the quality of GRAD’s main features a user study was conducted. The participants were asked to grade diagrams visualized and laid out using different modeling tools, including one relying on GRAD, which received the best overall scores.

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Modeling the REA Enterprise Ontology with a Domain Specific Language

Journal of Emerging Technologies in Accounting ◽

10.2308/jeta-50406 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 9 (1) ◽

pp. 47-70 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Tod A. Sedbrook

Keyword(s):

Code Generation ◽

Business Models ◽

Business Case ◽

Data Availability ◽

Domain Specific Language ◽

Modeling Tools ◽

Specific Language ◽

Meta Model ◽

Domain Specific ◽

Enterprise Ontology

ABSTRACT Developing a domain specific language (DSL) to express business policies requires modeling tools for eliciting, applying, and maintaining the knowledge of business experts. This study defines a DSL meta-model and prototype to create visual business models that conform to the Resource, Event, Agent-Enterprise Ontology (REA-EO). The meta-model specifies REA-EO modeling components, and the prototype provides a visual interface to design operational and policy-level models. Code-generation templates then transform design models into executable code that supports business applications. The study describes the capabilities of the prototype and validates its use in the context of a business case. Data Availability: The paper's software modeling prototype and its companion code-generation templates are available for research purposes as open-source Visual Studio extensions and are available by contacting the author.

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A Domain-Specific Language for Describing Grid Applications

Designing Software-Intensive Systems ◽

10.4018/978-1-59904-699-0.ch013 ◽

2009 ◽

pp. 402-438

Author(s):

Enis Afgan ◽

Purushotham Bangalore ◽

Jeff Gray

Keyword(s):

Quality Of Service ◽

Grid Computing ◽

Domain Specific Language ◽

Specific Language ◽

Domain Specific ◽

Application Deployment ◽

Grid Applications ◽

Computing Environments ◽

Grid Application

Grid computing environments are dynamic and heterogeneous in nature. In order to realize applicationspecific Quality of Service agreements within a grid, specifications at the level of an application are required. This chapter introduces an XML-based schema language (called the Application Specification Language, ASL) and a corresponding modeling tool that can be used to describe applications in grid computing environments. Such application descriptions allow derivation of guided and autonomic service developments for installation and invocation routines throughout the grid. In order to promote the language and ease the application description process, a domain-specific tool is also introduced. Based on our experience, the ASL in combination with higher level models improves, simplifies and promotes the grid application deployment process while simultaneously minimizing tedious and error-prone tasks such as manual application description composition.

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