Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, Steven Kelly. Defining Domain-Specific Modeling Languages to Automate Product Derivation: Collected Experiences. In J. Henk Obbink, Klaus Pohl, editors, Software Product Lines, 9th International Conference, SPLC 2005, Rennes, France, September 26-29, 2005, Proceedings. Volume 3714 of Lecture Notes in Computer Science, pages 198-209, Springer, 2005. [doi]
Domain-Specific Modeling offers a language-based approach to raise the level of abstraction in order to speed up development work and set variation space already at specification and design phase. In this paper we identify approaches that are applied for defining languages that enable automated variant derivation. This categorization is based on analyzing over 20 industrial cases of DSM language definition.