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@PHDTHESIS{Gupta:1016093,
author = {Gupta, Rohit},
othercontributors = {Rumpe, Bernhard and Tichy, Matthias},
title = {{A} systematic approach to fostering engineering of
industrial domain-specific modelling languages},
volume = {57},
school = {RWTH Aachen University},
type = {Dissertation},
address = {Düren},
publisher = {Shaker Verlag},
reportid = {RWTH-2025-06733},
isbn = {978-3-8440-9993-5},
series = {Aachener Informatik-Berichte, Software Engineering},
pages = {1 Online-Ressource : Illustrationen},
year = {2025},
note = {Druckausgabe: 2025. - Auch veröffentlicht auf dem
Publikationsserver der RWTH Aachen University; Dissertation,
RWTH Aachen University, 2025},
abstract = {Domain-Specific Modelling Languages (DSMLs) help modellers
and domain experts in various domains such as healthcare,
energy, information technology, and so on, in reducing the
gap between the problem space and the solution space by
placing models at the centre of development activities. This
shift towards model-driven development (MDD), where models
are introduced at early stages in any software or systems
engineering process and are the primary software engineering
artefacts, allows modellers to design complex, heterogeneous
real-world abstractions of their systems. In such complex
systems, concepts from individual domains are often
integrated as part of the bigger language infrastructure.
Specifically in an industrial setting, the methodologies to
describe a systematic engineering process for developing
such complex yet modular and reusable DSMLs that provides a
seamless modelling experience to modellers in both the large
scale organisations as well as in small and medium
enterprises is still largely neglected. Accordingly, this
thesis is aimed at providing the means to engineer graphical
DSMLs that are specifically focussed on industrial contexts.
Based on existing approaches, this work presents a
systematic approach to fostering the engineering of
industrial DSMLs by composing reusable language
infrastructure parts without the need for creating
completely new language infrastructure for similar domains
every time. These reusable units of a DSML, termed DSML
building blocks, consist of reusable language components
that, entirely or in part, contributes to the technical
definition of the language itself. The language components
compose through different forms of language composition to
form heterogeneous, integrated DSMLs. To foster the
interoperability of such common language infrastructure
parts between modelling environments, a bidirectional
exchange mechanism is detailed in this work. This work
further provides guidelines and design decisions that
language engineers should consider for their language
infrastructure in order to elevate the overall experience of
modellers. An approach for integrating methods, techniques,
and concepts in terms of guidance and recommendations for
modellers is detailed in this thesis that aims to move away
from plain technical views of models to instead model-aware
and dynamic views that are focussed on the current modelling
situation of such modellers. Overall, this thesis presents
approaches to modularly build reusable units of DSMLs that
compose together. The approaches presented in this thesis
allows language engineers to provide a more complete and
integrated language infrastructure that is ultimately aimed
at improving the modelling experience of practitioners in
the industry.},
cin = {121510 / 120000},
ddc = {004},
cid = {$I:(DE-82)121510_20140620$ / $I:(DE-82)120000_20140620$},
typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)11 / PUB:(DE-HGF)3},
doi = {10.18154/RWTH-2025-06733},
url = {https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/1016093},
}
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