Representing Data Visualization Goals and Tasks through Meta-Modeling to Tailor Information Dashboards

Information dashboards are everywhere. They support knowledge discovery in a huge variety of contexts and domains. Although powerful, these tools can be complex, not only for the end-users but also for developers and designers. Information dashboards encode complex datasets into different visual marks to ease knowledge discovery. Choosing a wrong design could compromise the entire dashboard’s effectiveness, selecting the appropriate encoding or configuration for each potential context, user, or data domain is a crucial task. For these reasons, there is a necessity to automatize the recommendation of visualizations and dashboard configurations to deliver tools adapted to their context. Recommendations can be based on different aspects, such as user characteristics, the data domain, or the goals and tasks that will be achieved or carried out through the visualizations. This work presents a dashboard meta-model that abstracts all these factors and the integration of a visualization task taxonomy to account for the different actions that can be performed with information dashboards. This meta-model has been used to design a domain specific language to specify dashboards requirements in a structured way. The ultimate goal is to obtain a dashboard generation pipeline to deliver dashboards adapted to any context, such as the educational context, in which a lot of data are generated, and there are several actors involved (students, teachers, managers, etc.) that would want to reach different insights regarding their learning performance or learning methodologies.

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Reverse Modeling for Domain-Driven Engineering of Publishing Technology

Proceedings of Balisage: The Markup Conference 2010 ◽

10.4242/balisagevol5.bruggemann-klein01 ◽

2010 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Anne Brüggemann-Klein ◽

Tamer Demirel ◽

Dennis Pagano ◽

Andreas Tai

Keyword(s):

Case Studies ◽

Conceptual Modeling ◽

General View ◽

Meta Model ◽

Domain Specific ◽

Core Set ◽

Generic Modeling ◽

Meta Modeling ◽

One Step ◽

Publishing Technology

We report in this paper on a technique that we call reverse modeling. Reverse modeling starts with a conceptual model that is formulated in one or more generic modeling technologies such as UML or XML Schema. It abstracts from that model a custom, domain-specific meta-model and re-formulates the original model as an instance of the new meta-model. We demonstrate the value of reverse modeling with two case studies: One domain-specific meta-model facilitates design and user interface of a so-called instance generator for broadcasting productions metadata. Another one structures the translation of XML-encoded printer data for invoices into semantic XML. In a further section of this paper, we take a more general view and survey patterns that have evolved in the conceptual modeling of documents and data and that implicitly suggest sound meta-modeling constructs. Taken together, the two case studies and the survey of patterns in conceptual models bring us one step closer to our superior goal of developing a meta-meta-modeling facility whose instances are custom meta-models for conceptual document and data models. The research that is presented in this paper brings forward a core set of elementary constructors that a meta-meta-modeling facility should provide.

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A domain-specific language for defining static structure of database applications

Computer Science and Information Systems ◽

10.2298/csis090203002d ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 7 (3) ◽

pp. 409-440 ◽

Cited By ~ 8

Author(s):

Igor Dejanovic ◽

Gordana Milosavljevic ◽

Branko Perisic ◽

Maja Tumbas

Keyword(s):

Source Code ◽

Domain Specific Language ◽

Static Structure ◽

Code Generator ◽

Specific Language ◽

Meta Model ◽

Model Driven ◽

Domain Specific ◽

Definition Of ◽

Execution Semantics

In this paper we present DOMMLite - an extensible domain specific language (DSL) for static structure definition of data base oriented applications. The model-driven engineering (MDE) approach, an emerging software development paradigm, has been used. The language structure is defined by the means of a meta model supplemented by validation rules based on Check language and extensions based on Extend language, which are parts of the openArchitectureWare framework [1]. The meta model has been defined along with the textual syntax, which enables creation, update and persistence of DOMMLite models using a common text editor. DSL execution semantics has been defined by the specification and implementation of the source code generator for a target platform with an already defined execution semantics. In order to enable model editing, a textual Eclipse editor has also been developed. DSL, defined in this way, has the capability of generating complete source code for GUI forms with CRUDS (Create-Read-Update-Delete-Search) and navigation operations [2,3,4,5].

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The Development of a University CLIL Model Integrating Economic Disciplines and Academic English

Examining Content and Language Integrated Learning (CLIL) Theories and Practices - Advances in Educational Technologies and Instructional Design ◽

10.4018/978-1-7998-3266-9.ch009 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 151-172

Author(s):

Elena K. Vdovina

Keyword(s):

Action Research ◽

Knowledge Construction ◽

Intermediate Stage ◽

Domain Specific Language ◽

Educational Context ◽

Academic English ◽

Specific Language ◽

Domain Specific ◽

Collaborative Interaction ◽

Methodological Principles

The chapter analyses a university model designed to integrate the study of economic disciplines and English by demonstrating how content-driven CLIL evolved from a synthesis of teaching economic disciplines in English by native speaking lecturers and English for special purposes taught by language instructors. A longitudinal action research into the effects of content and language integration ensured the development of major didactic and methodological principles implemented in a sequence of four semester courses with a dual focus on content and language. The chapter comprehensively examines the benefits arising from the introductory character of university CLIL disciplines and the two-level approach to the acquisition of academic domain-specific language skill in a collaborative interaction of all the participants aimed at knowledge construction. The model is considered an efficient intermediate stage undertaken before shifting to any form of tertiary educational context where English is used as a medium of instruction.

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Specification-Based Testing Via Domain Specific Language

Research Papers Faculty of Materials Science and Technology Slovak University of Technology ◽

10.2478/rput-2014-0003 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 22 (341) ◽

pp. 23-28 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Michal Sroka ◽

Roman Nagy ◽

Dominik Fisch

Keyword(s):

Software Testing ◽

Embedded Software ◽

Domain Specific Language ◽

Test Cases ◽

Process Automation ◽

Specific Test ◽

Specific Language ◽

Meta Model ◽

Domain Specific

Abstract The article presents tCF (testCaseFramework) - a domain specific language with corresponding toolchain for specification-based software testing of embedded software. tCF is designed for efficient preparation of maintainable and intelligible test cases and for testing process automation, as it allows to generate platform specific test cases for various testing levels. The article describes the essential parts of the tCF meta-model and the applied concept of platform specific test cases generators.

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A MOF based meta-model and a concrete DSL syntax of IIS*Case PIM concepts

Computer Science and Information Systems ◽

10.2298/csis120203034c ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 9 (3) ◽

pp. 1075-1103 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Milan Celikovic ◽

Ivan Lukovic ◽

Slavica Aleksic ◽

Vladimir Ivancevic

Keyword(s):

Software Tool ◽

Domain Specific Language ◽

Specific Language ◽

Meta Model ◽

Model Driven ◽

Domain Specific ◽

Software Documentation ◽

Concrete Syntax ◽

Meta Object Facility ◽

Is Design

In this paper, we present a platform independent model (PIM) of IIS*Case tool for information system (IS) design. IIS*Case is a model driven software tool that provides generation of executable application prototypes. The concepts are described by Meta Object Facility (MOF) specification, one of the commonly used approaches for describing meta-models. One of the main reasons for having IIS*Case PIM concepts specified through the meta-model, is to provide software documentation in a formal way, as well as a domain analysis purposed at creation a domain specific language to support IS design. Using the PIM meta-model, we can generate test cases that may assist in software tool verification. The meta-model may be also a good base for the process of the concrete syntax generation for some domain specific language.

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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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