Using Meta-Modelling and Graph Grammars to Create Modelling Environments |
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Authors: | Juan de Lara Jaramillo Hans Vangheluwe Manuel Alfonseca Moreno |
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Affiliation: | aETS Informática, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, SPAIN;bSchool of Computer Science, McGill University, Montreal, CANADA;cETS Informática, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, SPAIN |
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Abstract: | This paper presents the combined use of meta-modelling and graph grammars for the generation of visual modelling tools for simulation formalisms. In meta-modelling, formalisms are described at a meta-level. This information is used by a meta-model processor to generate modelling tools for the described formalisms. We combine meta-modelling with graph grammars to extend the model manipulation capabilities of the generated modelling tools, as we store (meta-)models as graphs, and thus, express model manipulations as graph grammars.We show the design and implementation of these concepts in AToM3 (A Tool for Multi-formalism, Meta-Modelling). As an example we will present a meta-model for Causal Block Diagrams and a graph grammar to generate OOCSMP code, a continuous simulation language which has a compiler able to generate Java applets from the simulations models. |
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