publications: - title: "PIL: A Platform Independent Language for Retargetable DSLs" author: - name: "Zef Hemel" link: "http://zef.me" - name: "Eelco Visser" link: "http://eelcovisser.org" year: "2009" doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12107-4_17" abstract: "Intermediate languages are used in compiler construction to simplify retargeting compilers to multiple machine architectures. In the implementation of domain-specific languages (DSLs), compilers typically generate high-level source code, rather than low-level machine instructions. DSL compilers target a software platform, i.e. a programming language with a set of libraries, deployable on one or more operating systems. DSLs enable targeting multiple software platforms if its abstractions are platform independent. While transformations from DSL to each targeted platform are often conceptually very similar, there is little reuse between transformations due to syntactic and API differences of the target platforms, making supporting multiple platforms expensive. In this paper, we discuss the design and implementation of PIL, a Platform Independent Language, an intermediate language providing a layer of abstraction between DSL and target platform code, abstracting from syntactic and API differences between platforms, thereby removing the need for platform-specific transformations. We discuss the use of PIL in an implemementation of WebDSL, a DSL for building web applications." links: doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12107-4_17" tags: - "DSL" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/HemelV09" cites: 0 citedby: 1 pages: "224-243" booktitle: "Software Language Engineering, Second International Conference, SLE 2009, Denver, CO, USA, October 5-6, 2009, Revised Selected Papers" editor: - name: "Mark G. J. van den Brand" link: "http://www.win.tue.nl/~mvdbrand/" - name: "Dragan Gasevic" link: "http://www.sfu.ca/~dgasevic/" - name: "Jeffrey G. Gray" link: "http://www.gray-area.org/" volume: "5969" series: "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" publisher: "Springer" isbn: "978-3-642-12106-7" kind: "inproceedings" key: "HemelV09" - title: "Middleware for Semantic Service Advertising and Discovery on MANETs" author: - name: "Zef Hemel" link: "http://zef.me" year: "2006" abstract: "MANETs (Mobile Ad-hoc Networks) offer exciting new research opportunities now that devices with wireless capabilities become more widespread. Many wireless technologies, such as 802.11, support these ad-hoc style networks. Opportunities lie in many areas, such as routing protocols, services and applications. The network topology of MANETs is constantly changing and the devices on these networks, like laptops and PDAs, have limited processing and battery power. Research on low-level protocols that do semantic service discovery on ad-hoc networks is emerging. Pervasive and mobile computing applications require these protocols, but using them requires a lot of engineering and knowledge of network protocols and service matching. This dissertation describes the design, implementation and evaluation of middleware that makes the task of defining, advertising and discovering semantic services on MANETs more straight-forward by offering APIs to complete these tasks. As part of the semantic service matching, context such as location and workload can be defined and matched to further improve the discovery results. Services and context are described using ontologies. Queries for services can be expressed in a newly developed query language called RaSSQL (RDF and Semantic Service Query Language). The middleware, implemented in Python, is based on ideas from the OntoMobil protocol, but can use any protocol that discovers services based on concept dissemination. To evaluate the middleware, an application was developed that demonstrates the use of the middleware's APIs to define a set of semantic services and location context. These services are queried using a RaSSQL query defining a desired service profile and service location. A peer flood protocol is implemented as the low-level protocol. Additionally, it is explained how the OntoMobil protocol could be implemented in the middleware." links: "tcd site": "https://www.cs.tcd.ie/courses/mscnds/dissertations/2005-2006/hemel.php" "pdf (download)": "http://www.cs.tcd.ie/publications/tech-reports/reports.06/TCD-CS-2006-64.pdf" tags: - "ontologies" - "rule-based" - "ad-hoc networks" - "completeness" - "discovery" - "ontology" - "protocol" - "language engineering" - "design research" - "language design" - "source-to-source" - "context-aware" - "peer-to-peer" - "routing" - "design" - "mobile" - "query language" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/zef-hemel-thesis" cites: 0 citedby: 0 school: "Trinity College Dublin" advisor: - name: "Siobhán Clarke" link: "https://www.cs.tcd.ie/Siobhan.Clarke/" kind: "mastersthesis" key: "zef-hemel-thesis" - title: "WebWorkFlow: An Object-Oriented Workflow Modeling Language for Web Applications" author: - name: "Zef Hemel" link: "http://zef.me" - name: "Ruben Verhaaf" link: "http://www.linkedin.com/pub/ruben-verhaaf/3/a73/2ab" - name: "Eelco Visser" link: "http://eelcovisser.org" year: "2008" doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87875-9_8" abstract: "Workflow languages are designed for the high-level description of processes and are typically not suitable for the generation of complete applications. In this paper, we present WebWorkFlow, an object-oriented workflow modeling language for the high-level description of workflows in web applications. Workflow descriptions define procedures operating on domain objects. Procedures are composed using sequential and concurrent process combinators. WebWorkFlow is an embedded language, extending WebDSL, a domain-specific language for web application development, with workflow abstractions. The extension is implemented by means of model-to-model transformations. Rather than providing an exclusive workflow language, WebWorkFlow supports interaction with the underlying WebDSL language. WebWorkFlow supports most of the basic workflow control patterns. " links: doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87875-9_8" "technical report (pdf)": "http://swerl.tudelft.nl/twiki/pub/Main/TechnicalReports/TUD-SERG-2008-029.pdf" tags: - "workflow patterns" - "model-to-model transformation" - "interaction design" - "WebDSL" - "transformation engineering" - "completeness" - "pattern language" - "meta-model" - "modeling language" - "modeling" - "language engineering" - "transformation language" - "language modeling" - "web engineering" - "language design" - "model-driven development" - "source-to-source" - "model-driven engineering" - "object-role modeling" - "model transformation" - "web applications" - "DSL" - "abstraction" - "Meta-Environment" - "workflow" - "process modeling" - "WebWorkFlow" - "meta-objects" - "transformation" - "domain-specific language" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/HemelVV08" cites: 0 citedby: 6 pages: "113-127" booktitle: "Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 11th International Conference, MoDELS 2008, Toulouse, France, September 28 - October 3, 2008. Proceedings" editor: - name: "Krzysztof Czarnecki" link: "http://www.swen.uwaterloo.ca/~kczarnec/" - name: "Ileana Ober" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/ileana-ober" - name: "Jean-Michel Bruel" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/jean-michel-bruel" - name: "Axel Uhl" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/axel-uhl" - name: "Markus Völter" link: "http://www.voelter.de/" volume: "5301" series: "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" publisher: "Springer" isbn: "978-3-540-87874-2" kind: "inproceedings" key: "HemelVV08" - title: "Generating Editors for Embedded Languages. Integrating SGLR into IMP" author: - name: "Lennart C. L. Kats" link: "http://www.lclnet.nl/" - name: "Karl Trygve Kalleberg" link: "http://www.ii.uib.no/~karltk/" - name: "Eelco Visser" link: "http://eelcovisser.org" year: "2008" month: "April" abstract: "Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) increase productivity by providing a rich user interface and rapid feedback for a specific language. Creating an editor for a specific language is not a trivial undertaking, and is a cumbersome task even when working with an extensible framework such as Eclipse. A new IBM-guided effort, the IMP framework, relieves the IDE developer from a significant portion of the required work by providing various abstractions for this. For embedded languages, such as embedded regular expressions, SQL queries, or code generation templates, its LALR parser generator falls short, however. Scannerless parsing with SGLR enables concise, modular definition of such languages. In this paper, we present an integration of SGLR into IMP, demonstrating that a scannerless parser can be successfully integrated into an IDE. Given an SDF syntax definition, the sdf2imp tool automatically generates an editor plugin based on the IMP API, complete with syntax checking, syntax highlighting, outline view, and code folding. Using declarative domain-specific languages, these services can be customized, and using the IMP metatooling framework it can be extended with other features. " links: successor: "https://researchr.org/publication/KatsVisser2010" "spoofax homepage": "http://strategoxt.org/Spoofax" "pdf": "http://swerl.tudelft.nl/twiki/pub/Main/TechnicalReports/TUD-SERG-2008-006.pdf" tags: - "rule-based" - "Eclipse" - "syntax definition" - "completeness" - "SDF" - "SQL" - "C++" - "code generation" - "abstraction" - "Spoofax" - "Meta-Environment" - "parsing" - "scannerless parsing" - "extensible language" - "ASF+SDF" - "SGLR" - "query language" - "domain-specific language" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/KatsKV08" cites: 0 citedby: 1 booktitle: "Proceedings of the Eight Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools, and Applications" editor: - name: "Jurgen J. Vinju" link: "http://homepages.cwi.nl/~jurgenv/" - name: "Adrian Johnstone" link: "http://www.cs.rhul.ac.uk/~adrian/" volume: "238" number: "5" series: "Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science " publisher: "Elsevier" kind: "inproceedings" key: "KatsKV08" - title: "Providing rapid feedback in generated modular language environments: adding error recovery to scannerless generalized-LR parsing" author: - name: "Lennart C. L. Kats" link: "http://www.lclnet.nl/" - name: "Maartje de Jonge" link: "https://researchr.org/profile/maartjedejonge/publications" - name: "Emma Nilsson-Nyman" link: "http://www.cs.lth.se/home/Emma.Nilsson_Nyman/" - name: "Eelco Visser" link: "http://eelcovisser.org" year: "2009" doi: "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1640089.1640122" abstract: "Integrated development environments (IDEs) increase programmer productivity, providing rapid, interactive feedback based on the syntax and semantics of a language. A heavy burden lies on developers of new languages to provide adequate IDE support. Code generation techniques provide a viable, efficient approach to semi-automatically produce IDE plugins. Key components for the realization of plugins are the language's grammar and parser. For embedded languages and language extensions, constituent IDE plugin modules and their grammars can be combined. Unlike conventional parsing algorithms, scannerless generalized-LR parsing supports the full set of context-free grammars, which is closed under composition, and hence can parse language embeddings and extensions composed from separate grammar modules. To apply this algorithm in an interactive environment, this paper introduces a novel error recovery mechanism, which allows it to be used with files with syntax errors -- common in interactive editing. Error recovery is vital for providing rapid feedback in case of syntax errors, as most IDE services depend on the parser -- from syntax highlighting to semantic analysis and cross-referencing. We base our approach on the principles of island grammars, and derive permissive grammars with error recovery productions from normal SDF grammars. To cope with the added complexity of these grammars, we adapt the parser to support backtracking. We evaluate the recovery quality and performance of our approach using a set of composed languages, based on Java and Stratego. " links: doi: "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1640089.1640122" successor: "https://researchr.org/publication/JongeKVS12" "technical report (pdf)": "http://www.lclnet.nl/publications/error-recovery.pdf" tags: - "parsing algorithm" - "semantics" - "rule-based" - "Java" - "SDF" - "composition" - "analysis" - "principles" - "C++" - "code generation" - "context-aware" - "Meta-Environment" - "parsing" - "scannerless parsing" - "systematic-approach" - "island grammars" - "ASF+SDF" - "grammar" - "Stratego" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/KatsJNV09" cites: 0 citedby: 1 pages: "445-464" booktitle: "Proceedings of the 24th Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA 2009, October 25-29, 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA" editor: - name: "Shail Arora" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/shail-arora" - name: "Gary T. Leavens" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/gary-t.-leavens" publisher: "ACM" isbn: "978-1-60558-766-0" kind: "inproceedings" key: "KatsJNV09" - title: "WebDSL: A Case Study in Domain-Specific Language Engineering" author: - name: "Eelco Visser" link: "http://eelcovisser.org" year: "2007" doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88643-3_7" abstract: " The goal of domain-specific languages (DSLs) is to increase the productivity of software engineers by abstracting from low-level boil- erplate code. Introduction of DSLs in the software development process requires a smooth workflow for the production of DSLs themselves. This requires technology for designing and implementing DSLs, but also a methodology for using that technology. That is, a collection of guidelines, design patterns, and reusable DSL components that show developers how to tackle common language design and implementation issues. This paper presents a case study in domain-specific language engineering. It reports on a pro ject in which the author designed and built WebDSL, a DSL for web applications with a rich data model, using several DSLs for DSL engineering: SDF for syntax definition and Stratego/XT for code gener- ation. The paper follows the stages in the development of the DSL. The contributions of the paper are three-fold. (1) A tutorial in the application of the specific SDF and Stratego/XT technology for building DSLs. (2) A description of an incremental DSL development process. (3) A domain- specific language for web-applications with rich data models. The paper concludes with a survey of related approaches. " links: doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-88643-3_7" "technical report (pdf)": "http://swerl.tudelft.nl/twiki/pub/Main/TechnicalReports/TUD-SERG-2008-023.pdf" "webdsl": "http://webdsl.org" "stratego/xt": "http://strategoxt.org" tags: - "WebDSL" - "reusable components" - "DSL engineering" - "web application development" - "data-flow language" - "pattern language" - "case study" - "software components" - "SDF" - "meta-model" - "abstract syntax" - "modeling language" - "Stratego/XT" - "language engineering" - "software language engineering" - "language modeling" - "software component" - "web engineering" - "language design" - "reuse" - "model-driven development" - "data-flow" - "survey" - "software engineering" - "model-driven engineering" - "web applications" - "DSL" - "Meta-Environment" - "incremental" - "design" - "process modeling" - "systematic-approach" - "ASF+SDF" - "language" - "Stratego" - "domain-specific language" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/Visser07" cites: 0 citedby: 9 pages: "291-373" booktitle: "Generative and Transformational Techniques in Software Engineering II, International Summer School, GTTSE 2007" editor: - name: "Ralf Lämmel" link: "http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~laemmel/Site/Home.html" - name: "Joost Visser" link: "http://www.di.uminho.pt/~joost.visser/" - name: "João Saraiva" link: "http://di.uminho.pt/~jas" volume: "5235" series: "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" address: "Braga, Portugal" publisher: "Springer" isbn: "978-3-540-88642-6" kind: "inproceedings" key: "Visser07" - title: "Reconstructing Complex Metamodel Evolution" author: - name: "Sander Vermolen" link: "http://www.sandervermolen.nl" - name: "Guido Wachsmuth" link: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/guidowachsmuth/" - name: "Eelco Visser" link: "http://eelcovisser.org" year: "2011" month: "August" abstract: "Metamodel evolution requires model migration. To correctly migrate models, evolution needs to be made explicit. Manually describing evolution is error-prone and redundant. Metamodel matching offers a solution by automatically detecting evolution, yet detects primitive evolution steps only. In practice, primitive evolution steps are jointly applied to form a complex evolution step, which has the same effect on a metamodel as the sum of its parts, yet generally has a different effect in migration. Detection of complex evolution is therefore needed. In this paper we present an approach to reconstructing complex evolution between two metamodel versions, using a matching result as input. It supports operator dependencies and mixed, overlapping and incorrectly ordered complex operator components. It also supports interference between operators, where the effect of one operator, is partially, or completely hidden from the target metamodel by other operators." links: published: "https://researchr.org/publication/VermolenWV11sle" tags: - "meta-model" - "migration" - "Meta-Environment" - "systematic-approach" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/VermolenWachsmuthVisser-TUD-SERG-2011-026" cites: 0 citedby: 0 institution: "Delft University of Technology" number: "TUD-SERG-2011-026" address: "Delft, The Netherlands" kind: "techreport" key: "VermolenWachsmuthVisser-TUD-SERG-2011-026" - title: "WebDSL: a domain-specific language for dynamic web applications" author: - name: "Danny M. Groenewegen" link: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannygroenewegen/" - name: "Zef Hemel" link: "http://zef.me" - name: "Lennart C. L. Kats" link: "http://www.lclnet.nl/" - name: "Eelco Visser" link: "http://eelcovisser.org" year: "2008" doi: "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1449814.1449858" abstract: "WebDSL is a domain-specific language for the implementation of dynamic web applications with a rich datamodel. It consists of a core language with constructs to define entities, pages and business logic. Higher-level abstractions, modeling access control and workflow, are defined in a modular fashion as extensions of the core language." links: doi: "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1449814.1449858" tags: - "WebDSL" - "meta-model" - "modeling language" - "modeling" - "language engineering" - "language modeling" - "web engineering" - "model-driven engineering" - "C++" - "web applications" - "DSL" - "logic" - "abstraction" - "Meta-Environment" - "access control" - "workflow" - "domain-specific language" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/GroenewegenHKV08" cites: 0 citedby: 0 pages: "779-780" booktitle: "Companion to the 23rd Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA 2008, October 19-13, 2007, Nashville, TN, USA" editor: - name: "Gail E. Harris" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/gail-e.-harris" publisher: "ACM" isbn: "978-1-60558-220-7" kind: "inproceedings" key: "GroenewegenHKV08" - title: "Static consistency checking of web applications with WebDSL" author: - name: "Zef Hemel" link: "http://zef.me" - name: "Danny M. Groenewegen" link: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannygroenewegen/" - name: "Lennart C. L. Kats" link: "http://www.lclnet.nl/" - name: "Eelco Visser" link: "http://eelcovisser.org" year: "2011" doi: "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsc.2010.08.006" abstract: "Modern web application development frameworks provide web application developers with high-level abstractions to improve their productivity. However, their support for static verification of applications is limited. Inconsistencies in an application are often not detected statically, but appear as errors at run-time. The reports about these errors are often obscure and hard to trace back to the source of the inconsistency. A major part of this inadequate consistency checking can be traced back to the lack of linguistic integration of these frameworks. Parts of an application are defined with separate domain-specific languages, which are not checked for consistency with the rest of the application. Examples include regular expressions, query languages and XML-based languages for definition of user interfaces. We give an overview and analysis of typical problems arising in development with frameworks for web application development, with Ruby on Rails, Lift and Seam as representatives. To remedy these problems, in this paper, we argue that domain-specific languages should be designed from the ground up with static verification and cross-aspect consistency checking in mind, providing linguistic integration of domain-specific sub-languages. We show how this approach is applied in the design of WebDSL, a domain-specific language for web applications, by examining how its compiler detects inconsistencies not caught by web frameworks, providing accurate and clear error messages. Furthermore, we show how this consistency analysis can be expressed with a declarative rule-based approach using the Stratego transformation language." links: doi: "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsc.2010.08.006" dblp: "http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bibtex/journals/jsc/HemelGKV11" "technical report ": "http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:588b78a1-f8d8-45fc-855f-fd03699725cf" "jsc": "https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsc.2010.08.006" tags: - "model-to-model transformation" - "WebDSL" - "rule-based" - "application framework" - "model checking" - "XML" - "XML Schema" - "transformation language" - "points-to analysis" - "domain analysis" - "analysis" - "language design" - "static analysis" - "model-driven development" - "source-to-source" - "rules" - "C++" - "compiler" - "model transformation" - "web applications" - "consistency" - "abstraction" - "design" - "systematic-approach" - "open-source" - "transformation" - "Ruby on Rails" - "Stratego" - "Ruby" - "query language" - "domain-specific language" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/HemelGKV11" cites: 0 citedby: 0 journal: "Journal of Symbolic Computation" volume: "46" number: "2" pages: "150-182" kind: "article" key: "HemelGKV11" - title: "Natural and Flexible Error Recovery for Generated Parsers" author: - name: "Maartje de Jonge" link: "https://researchr.org/profile/maartjedejonge/publications" - name: "Emma Nilsson-Nyman" link: "http://www.cs.lth.se/home/Emma.Nilsson_Nyman/" - name: "Lennart C. L. Kats" link: "http://www.lclnet.nl/" - name: "Eelco Visser" link: "http://eelcovisser.org" year: "2009" doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12107-4_16" abstract: "Parser generators are an indispensable tool for rapid language development. However, they often fall short of the finesse of a hand-crafted parser, built with the language semantics in mind. One area where generated parsers have provided unsatisfactory results is that of error recovery. Good error recovery is both natural, giving recovery suggestions in line with the intention of the programmer; and flexible, allowing it to be adapted according to language insights and language changes. This paper describes a novel approach to error recovery, taking into account not only the context-free grammar, but also indentation usage. We base our approach on an extension of the SGLR parser that supports fine-grained error recovery rules and can be used to parse complex, composed languages. We take a divide-and-conquer approach to error recovery: using indentation, erroneous regions of code are identified. These regions constrain the search space for applying recovery rules, improving performance and ensuring recovery suggestions local to the error. As a last resort, erroneous regions can be discarded. Our approach also integrates bridge parsing to provide more accurate suggestions for indentation-sensitive language constructs such as scopes. We evaluate our approach by comparison with the JDT Java parser used in Eclipse. " links: doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-12107-4_16" successor: "https://researchr.org/publication/JongeKVS12" tags: - "semantics" - "rule-based" - "Java" - "Eclipse" - "rules" - "C++" - "search suggestions" - "context-aware" - "search" - "parsing" - "error recovery" - "systematic-approach" - "SGLR" - "grammar" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/JongeNKV09" cites: 0 citedby: 0 pages: "204-223" booktitle: "Software Language Engineering, Second International Conference, SLE 2009, Denver, CO, USA, October 5-6, 2009, Revised Selected Papers" editor: - name: "Mark G. J. van den Brand" link: "http://www.win.tue.nl/~mvdbrand/" - name: "Dragan Gasevic" link: "http://www.sfu.ca/~dgasevic/" - name: "Jeffrey G. Gray" link: "http://www.gray-area.org/" volume: "5969" series: "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" publisher: "Springer" isbn: "978-3-642-12106-7" kind: "inproceedings" key: "JongeNKV09" - title: "Fusing a Transformation Language with an Open Compiler" author: - name: "Karl Trygve Kalleberg" link: "http://www.ii.uib.no/~karltk/" - name: "Eelco Visser" link: "http://eelcovisser.org" year: "2008" doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.entcs.2008.03.042" abstract: "Program transformation systems provide powerful analysis and transformation frameworks as well as concise languages for language processing, but instantiating them for every subject language is an arduous task, most often resulting in half-completed frontends. Compilers provide mature frontends with robust parsers and type checkers, but solving language processing problems in general-purpose languages without transformation libraries is tedious. Reusing these frontends with existing transformation systems is therefore attractive. However, for this reuse to be optimal, the functional logic found in the frontend should be exposed to the transformation system – simple data serialization of the abstract syntax tree is not enough, since this fails to expose important compiler functionality, such as import graphs, symbol tables and the type checker. In this paper, we introduce a novel and general technique for combining term-based transformation systems with existing language frontends. The technique is presented in the context of a scriptable analysis and transformation framework for Java built on top of the Eclipse Java compiler. The framework consists of an adapter automatically extracted from the abstract syntax tree of the compiler and an interpreter for the Stratego program transformation language. The adapter allows the Stratego interpreter to rewrite directly on the compiler AST. We illustrate the applicability of our system with scripts written in Stratego that perform framework and library-specific analyses and transformations." links: doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.entcs.2008.03.042" "technical report (pdf)": "http://swerl.tudelft.nl/twiki/pub/Main/TechnicalReports/TUD-SERG-2007-025.pdf" tags: - "programming languages" - "model-to-model transformation" - "object-oriented programming" - "rule-based" - "Java" - "program analysis" - "Eclipse" - "completeness" - "data-flow language" - "graph transformation" - "interpreter" - "abstract syntax" - "Stratego/XT" - "transformation language" - "term rewriting" - "functional programming" - "Eclipse Java Compiler" - "points-to analysis" - "domain analysis" - "analysis" - "type system" - "reuse" - "data-flow programming" - "data-flow" - "source-to-source" - "graph-rewriting" - "logic programming" - "transformation system" - "compiler" - "model transformation" - "open compiler" - "subject-oriented programming" - "context-aware" - "logic" - "Spoofax" - "rewriting logic" - "rewriting" - "data-flow analysis" - "parsing" - "feature-oriented programming" - "open-source" - "transformation" - "Stratego" - "program transformation" - "domain-specific language" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/KallebergV08" cites: 0 citedby: 1 journal: "Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science" volume: "203" number: "2" pages: "21-36" kind: "article" key: "KallebergV08" - title: "Spoofax: An Interactive Development Environment for Program Transformation with Stratego/XT" author: - name: "Karl Trygve Kalleberg" link: "http://www.ii.uib.no/~karltk/" - name: "Eelco Visser" link: "http://eelcovisser.org" year: "2007" month: "March" links: "url": "http://swerl.tudelft.nl/twiki/pub/Main/TechnicalReports/TUD-SERG-2007-018.pdf" tags: - "model-to-model transformation" - "meta programming" - "meta-model" - "model-driven development" - "model transformation" - "Spoofax" - "Meta-Environment" - "meta-objects" - "transformation" - "Stratego" - "program transformation" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/KallebergV07" cites: 0 citedby: 0 booktitle: "Proceedings of the Seventh Workshop on Language Descriptions, Tools and Applications (LDTA 2007)" series: "Electronic Notes in Theoretical Computer Science" address: "Braga, Portugal" publisher: "Elsevier" kind: "inproceedings" key: "KallebergV07" - title: "Generating Version Convertors for Domain-Specific Languages" author: - name: "Gerardo de Geest" link: "http://www.linkedin.com/pub/gerardo-de-geest/9/820/138" - name: "Sander Vermolen" link: "http://www.sandervermolen.nl" - name: "Arie van Deursen" link: "http://www.st.ewi.tudelft.nl/~arie/" - name: "Eelco Visser" link: "http://eelcovisser.org" year: "2008" doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WCRE.2008.50" abstract: "Domain-specific languages (DSLs) improve programmer productivity by providing high-level abstractions for the development of applications in a particular domain. However,the smaller distance to the application domain entails more frequent changes to the language. As a result, existing DSL models need to be converted to the new version. Manual conversion is tedious and error prone.This paper presents an approach to support DSL evolution by generation of convertors between DSLs. By analyzing the differences between DSL meta-models, a mapping is reverse engineered which can be used to generate reengineering tools to automatically convert models between different versions of a DSL. The approach has been implemented for the Microsoft DSL Tools infrastructure in two tools called DSLCompare and ConverterGenerator. The approach has been evaluated by means of three case studies taken from the software development practice at the company Avanade." links: doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WCRE.2008.50" tags: - "case study" - "meta-model" - "evolution" - "modeling language" - "modeling" - "dsl-tools" - "language modeling" - "model-driven development" - "software evolution" - "DSL" - "abstraction" - "Meta-Environment" - "convertors" - "systematic-approach" - "language" - "meta-objects" - "domain-specific language" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/GeestVDV08" cites: 0 citedby: 0 pages: "197-201" booktitle: "WCRE 2008, Proceedings of the 15th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Antwerp, Belgium, October 15-18, 2008" publisher: "IEEE" kind: "inproceedings" key: "GeestVDV08" - title: "Weaving web applications with WebDSL: (demonstration)" author: - name: "Danny M. Groenewegen" link: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannygroenewegen/" - name: "Eelco Visser" link: "http://eelcovisser.org" year: "2009" doi: "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1639950.1640020" abstract: "WebDSL is a domain-specific language for the development of web applications that integrates data-models, user-interface models, actions, validation, access control, and workflow. The compiler verifies the consistency of applications and generates complete implementations in Java or Python. We illustrate the key concepts of the language with a small web application." links: doi: "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1639950.1640020" tags: - "data validation" - "WebDSL" - "Java" - "completeness" - "data-flow language" - "meta-model" - "modeling language" - "modeling" - "language modeling" - "model-driven development" - "data-flow" - "weaving" - "compiler" - "web applications" - "consistency" - "Meta-Environment" - "access control" - "workflow" - "domain-specific language" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/GroenewegenV09-demo" cites: 0 citedby: 0 pages: "797-798" booktitle: "Companion to the 24th Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA 2009, October 25-29, 2009, Orlando, Florida, USA" editor: - name: "Shail Arora" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/shail-arora" - name: "Gary T. Leavens" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/gary-t.-leavens" publisher: "ACM" isbn: "978-1-60558-768-4" kind: "inproceedings" key: "GroenewegenV09-demo" - title: "Declarative Access Control for WebDSL: Combining Language Integration and Separation of Concerns" author: - name: "Danny M. Groenewegen" link: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannygroenewegen/" - name: "Eelco Visser" link: "http://eelcovisser.org" year: "2008" doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICWE.2008.15" abstract: "In this paper, we present the extension of WebDSL, a domain-specific language for web application development, with abstractions for declarative definition of access control. The extension supports the definition of a wide range of access control policies concisely and transparently as a separate concern. In addition to regulating the access to pages and actions, access control rules are used to infer navigation options not accessible to the current user, preventing the presentation of inaccessible links. The extension is an illustration of a general approach to the design of domain-specific languages for different technical domains to support separation of concerns in application development, while preserving linguistic integration. This approach is realized by means of a transformational semantics that weaves separately defined aspects into an integrated implementation. " links: doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICWE.2008.15" "webdsl": "http://webdsl.org" tags: - "WebDSL" - "semantics" - "rule-based" - "separation of concerns" - "transformation language" - " action semantics" - "language design" - "weaving" - "rules" - "web applications" - "DSL" - "abstraction" - "access control policies" - "access control" - "aspect weaving" - "design" - "role-based access control" - "systematic-approach" - "transformation" - "domain-specific language" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/GroenewegenV08" cites: 26 citedby: 7 pages: "175-188" booktitle: "Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Web Engineering, ICWE 2008, 14-18 July 2008, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA" editor: - name: "Daniel Schwabe" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/daniel-schwabe" - name: "Francisco Curbera" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/francisco-curbera" - name: "Paul Dantzig" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/paul-dantzig" publisher: "IEEE" isbn: "978-0-7695-3261-5" kind: "inproceedings" key: "GroenewegenV08" - title: "Heterogeneous Coupled Evolution of Software Languages" author: - name: "Sander Vermolen" link: "http://www.sandervermolen.nl" - name: "Eelco Visser" link: "http://eelcovisser.org" year: "2008" doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87875-9_44" abstract: "As most software artifacts, meta-models can evolve. Their evolution requires conforming models to co-evolve along with them. Coupled evolution supports this. Its applicability is not limited to the modeling domain. Other domains are for example evolving grammars or database schemas. Existing approaches to coupled evolution focus on a single, homogeneous domain. They solve the co-evolution problems locally and repeatedly. In this paper we present a systematic, heterogeneous approach to coupled evolution. It provides an automatically derived domain specific transformation language; a means of executing transformations at the top level; a derivation of the coupled bottom level transformation; and it allows for generic abstractions from elementary transformations. The feasibility of the architecture is evaluated by applying it to data model evolution." links: doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-87875-9_44" tags: - "model-to-model transformation" - "software architecture" - "coupled" - "data-flow language" - "meta-model" - "XML" - "evolution" - "modeling language" - "heterogeneous" - "XML Schema" - "languages" - "modeling" - "transformation language" - "coupled evolution" - "architecture" - "language modeling" - "model" - "data-flow" - "software evolution" - "format evolution" - "source-to-source" - "model transformation" - "database" - "abstraction" - "software languages" - "Meta-Environment" - "systematic-approach" - "meta-objects" - "transformation" - "grammar" - "domain-specific language" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/VermolenV08" cites: 0 citedby: 3 pages: "630-644" booktitle: "Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, 11th International Conference, MoDELS 2008, Toulouse, France, September 28 - October 3, 2008. Proceedings" editor: - name: "Krzysztof Czarnecki" link: "http://www.swen.uwaterloo.ca/~kczarnec/" - name: "Ileana Ober" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/ileana-ober" - name: "Jean-Michel Bruel" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/jean-michel-bruel" - name: "Axel Uhl" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/axel-uhl" - name: "Markus Völter" link: "http://www.voelter.de/" volume: "5301" series: "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" publisher: "Springer" isbn: "978-3-540-87874-2" kind: "inproceedings" key: "VermolenV08" - title: "When Frameworks Let You Down. Platform-Imposed Constraints on the Design and Evolution of Domain-Specific Languages" author: - name: "Danny M. Groenewegen" link: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/dannygroenewegen/" - name: "Zef Hemel" link: "http://zef.me" - name: "Lennart C. L. Kats" link: "http://www.lclnet.nl/" - name: "Eelco Visser" link: "http://eelcovisser.org" year: "2008" month: "October" abstract: "Application frameworks encapsulate domain knowledge in a reusable library, providing abstractions for a particular domain. As such, they can form the basis for domain-specific languages, which may offer notational constructs, static analysis, and optimizations specific for the domain. Additional abstractions can be incrementally added on top of a domain-specific, following an inductive approach towards its design, evolving the language as new domain insights are acquired. A problem arises when such additions do not align well with the underlying framework. In this paper, we provide different examples of this problem and describe scenarios of dealing with it." links: "technical report": "http://swerl.tudelft.nl/twiki/pub/Main/TechnicalReports/TUD-SERG-2008-039.pdf" tags: - "framework" - "optimization" - "WebDSL" - "application framework" - "domain analysis" - "analysis" - "language design" - "static analysis" - "constraints" - "reuse" - "software evolution" - "C++" - "DSL" - "abstraction" - "incremental" - "design" - "systematic-approach" - "domain-specific language" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/GroenewegenHKV08-DSM" cites: 0 citedby: 2 booktitle: "Proceedings of the 8th OOPSLA Workshop on Domain Specific Modelling (DSM'08)" editor: - name: "Jeffrey G. Gray" link: "http://www.gray-area.org/" - name: "Jonathan Sprinkle" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/jonathan-sprinkle" - name: "Juha-Pekka Tolvanen" link: "http://www.metacase.com/jpt.html" - name: "Matti Rossi" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/matti-rossi" address: "Nashville, Tennessee, USA" kind: "inproceedings" key: "GroenewegenHKV08-DSM" - title: "Parse Table Composition" author: - name: "Martin Bravenboer" link: "http://martin.bravenboer.name/" - name: "Eelco Visser" link: "http://eelcovisser.org" year: "2009" doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00434-6_6" abstract: "Module systems, separate compilation, deployment of binary components, and dynamic linking have enjoyed wide acceptance in programming languages and systems. In contrast, the syntax of languages is usually defined in a non-modular way, cannot be compiled separately, cannot easily be combined with the syntax of other languages, and cannot be deployed as a component for later composition. Grammar formalisms that do support modules use whole program compilation. Current extensible compilers focus on source-level extensibility, which requires users to compile the compiler with a specific configuration of extensions. A compound parser needs to be generated for every combination of extensions. The generation of parse tables is expensive, which is a particular problem when the composition configuration is not fixed to enable users to choose language extensions. In this paper we introduce an algorithm for parse table composition to support separate compilation of grammars to parse table components. Parse table components can be composed (linked) efficiently at runtime, i.e. just before parsing. While the worst-case time complexity of parse table composition is exponential (like the complexity of parse table generation itself), for realistic language combination scenarios involving grammars for real languages, our parse table composition algorithm is an order of magnitude faster than computation of the parse table for the combined grammars. " links: doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00434-6_6" tags: - "parsing algorithm" - "programming languages" - "deployment" - "syntax definition" - "SDF" - "composition" - "source-to-source" - "parse table composition" - "compiler" - "programming" - "language composition" - "parsing" - "extensible language" - "ASF+SDF" - "open-source" - "grammar" - "domain-specific language" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/BravenboerV08" cites: 0 citedby: 0 pages: "74-94" booktitle: "Software Language Engineering, First International Conference, SLE 2008, Toulouse, France, September 29-30, 2008. Revised Selected Papers" editor: - name: "Dragan Gasevic" link: "http://www.sfu.ca/~dgasevic/" - name: "Ralf Lämmel" link: "http://www.uni-koblenz.de/~laemmel/Site/Home.html" - name: "Eric {Van Wyk}" link: "http://www-users.cs.umn.edu/~evw/" volume: "5452" series: "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" publisher: "Springer" isbn: "978-3-642-00433-9" kind: "inproceedings" key: "BravenboerV08" - title: "Software Language Evolution" author: - name: "Sander Vermolen" link: "http://www.sandervermolen.nl" year: "2008" doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WCRE.2008.42" abstract: "By abstraction and factoring out domain specific knowledge, model driven engineering addresses the problem of increasing software complexity. Both models and meta models are generally subject to evolution, yet evolution of a meta model can cause conforming models to no longer conform and thereby no longer be usable. Therefore, models need to be migrated to reflect changes to their meta models. As evolution is typically frequent and reoccurring, manual migration of models is cumbersome and holds back the development process, yet automatic support is generally lacking. In this research we identify the problems caused by meta model evolution and develop methodologies and tools to solve these by supporting meta model evolution generically and automatically." links: doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WCRE.2008.42" tags: - "software evolution" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/Vermolen08" cites: 0 citedby: 0 pages: "323-326" booktitle: "WCRE 2008, Proceedings of the 15th Working Conference on Reverse Engineering, Antwerp, Belgium, October 15-18, 2008" publisher: "IEEE" kind: "inproceedings" key: "Vermolen08" - title: "Mixing source and bytecode: a case for compilation by normalization" author: - name: "Lennart C. L. Kats" link: "http://www.lclnet.nl/" - name: "Martin Bravenboer" link: "http://martin.bravenboer.name/" - name: "Eelco Visser" link: "http://eelcovisser.org" year: "2008" doi: "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1449764.1449772" abstract: "Language extensions increase programmer productivity by providing concise, often domain-specific syntax, and support for static verification of correctness, security, and style constraints. Language extensions can often be realized through translation to the base language, supported by preprocessors and extensible compilers. However, various kinds of extensions require further adaptation of a base compiler's internal stages and components, for example to support separate compilation or to make use of low-level primitives of the platform (e.g., jump instructions or unbalanced synchronization). To allow for a more loosely coupled approach, we propose an open compiler model based on normalization steps from a high-level language to a subset of it, the core language. We developed such a compiler for a mixed Java and (core) bytecode language, and evaluate its effectiveness for composition mechanisms such as traits, as well as statement-level and expression-level language extensions. " links: doi: "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1449764.1449772" "technical report (pdf)": "http://www.lclnet.nl/publications/TUD-SERG-2008-030.pdf" "project home page": "http://www.strategoxt.org/Stratego/TheDryadCompiler" tags: - "compilation by normalization" - "rule-based" - "Java" - "synchronization" - "translation" - "meta-model" - "modeling language" - "Stratego/XT" - "language modeling" - "composition" - "constraints" - "source-to-source" - "C++" - "Dryad" - "security" - "compiler" - "Meta-Environment" - "extensible language" - "systematic-approach" - "open-source" - "Stratego" - "JavaFront" - "domain-specific language" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/KatsBV08" cites: 44 citedby: 3 pages: "91-108" booktitle: "Proceedings of the 23rd Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA 2008, October 19-23, 2008, Nashville, TN, USA" editor: - name: "Gail E. Harris" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/gail-e.-harris" publisher: "ACM" isbn: "978-1-60558-215-3" kind: "inproceedings" key: "KatsBV08" - title: "Code Generation by Model Transformation" author: - name: "Zef Hemel" link: "http://zef.me" - name: "Lennart C. L. Kats" link: "http://www.lclnet.nl/" - name: "Eelco Visser" link: "http://eelcovisser.org" year: "2008" doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69927-9_13" abstract: "The realization of model-driven software development requires effective techniques for implementing code generators. In this paper, we present a case study of code generation by model transformation with Stratego, a high-level transformation language based on the paradigm of rewrite rules with programmable strategies that integrates model-to-model, model-to-code, and code-to-code transformations. The use of concrete object syntax guarantees syntactic correctness of code patterns, and enables the subsequent transformation of generated code. The composability of strategies supports two dimensions of transformation modularity. Vertical modularity is achieved by designing a generator as a pipeline of model-to-model transformations that gradually transforms a high-level input model to an implementation. Horizontal modularity is achieved by supporting the definition of plugins which implement all aspects of a language feature. We discuss the application of these techniques in the implementation of WebDSL, a domain-specific language for dynamic web applications with a rich data model. " links: doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69927-9_13" successor: "https://researchr.org/publication/HemelKGV10" "technical report (pdf)": "http://swerl.tudelft.nl/twiki/pub/Main/TechnicalReports/TUD-SERG-2008-012.pdf" tags: - "programming languages" - "model-to-model transformation" - "object-oriented programming" - "WebDSL" - "concrete object syntax" - "rule-based" - "transformation engineering" - "syntax definition" - "meta programming" - "data-flow language" - "pattern language" - "case study" - "graph transformation" - "meta-model" - "modeling language" - "modeling" - "language engineering" - "transformation language" - "software language engineering" - "language modeling" - "web engineering" - "data-flow programming" - "model-driven development" - "data-flow" - "source-to-source" - "graph-rewriting" - "software engineering" - "rules" - "model-driven engineering" - "C++" - "programming paradigms" - "code generation" - "object-role modeling" - "aspect oriented programming" - "model transformation" - "web applications" - "DSL" - "subject-oriented programming" - "Meta-Environment" - "rewriting" - "rewriting strategies" - "feature-oriented programming" - "concrete syntax" - "open-source" - "meta-objects" - "transformation" - "Stratego" - "program transformation" - "domain-specific language" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/HemelKV08" cites: 0 citedby: 3 pages: "183-198" booktitle: "Theory and Practice of Model Transformations, First International Conference, ICMT 2008, Zürich, Switzerland, July 1-2, 2008, Proceedings" editor: - name: "Antonio Vallecillo" link: "http://www.lcc.uma.es/~av/" - name: "Jeffrey G. Gray" link: "http://www.gray-area.org/" - name: "Alfonso Pierantonio" link: "http://www.di.univaq.it/alfonso" volume: "5063" series: "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" publisher: "Springer" isbn: "978-3-540-69926-2" kind: "inproceedings" key: "HemelKV08" - title: "Pure and declarative syntax definition: paradise lost and regained" author: - name: "Lennart C. L. Kats" link: "http://www.lclnet.nl/" - name: "Eelco Visser" link: "http://eelcovisser.org" - name: "Guido Wachsmuth" link: "https://www.linkedin.com/in/guidowachsmuth/" year: "2010" doi: "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1869459.1869535" abstract: "Syntax definitions are pervasive in modern software systems, and serve as the basis for language processing tools like parsers and compilers. Mainstream parser generators pose restrictions on syntax definitions that follow from their implementation algorithm. They hamper evolution, maintainability, and compositionality of syntax definitions. The pureness and declarativity of syntax definitions is lost. We analyze how these problems arise for different aspects of syntax definitions, discuss their consequences for language engineers, and show how the pure and declarative nature of syntax definitions can be regained." links: doi: "http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1869459.1869535" dblp: "http://dblp.uni-trier.de/rec/bibtex/conf/oopsla/KatsVW10" "pdf (tech report)": "http://swerl.tudelft.nl/twiki/pub/Main/TechnicalReports/TUD-SERG-2010-019.pdf" tags: - "parsing algorithm" - "syntax definition" - "composition" - "software evolution" - "C++" - "compiler" - "parsing" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/KatsVW10" cites: 0 citedby: 1 pages: "918-932" booktitle: "Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, OOPSLA 2010, October 17-21, 2010, Reno/Tahoe, Nevada, USA" editor: - name: "William R. Cook" link: "http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/" - name: "Siobhán Clarke" link: "https://www.cs.tcd.ie/Siobhan.Clarke/" - name: "Martin C. Rinard" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/martin-c.-rinard" address: "Reno/Tahoe, Nevada" publisher: "ACM" isbn: "978-1-4503-0203-6" kind: "inproceedings" key: "KatsVW10" - title: "Programming the Mobile Web with Mobl" author: - name: "Zef Hemel" link: "http://zef.me" - name: "Eelco Visser" link: "http://eelcovisser.org" year: "2011" month: "January" abstract: "A new generation of mobile touch devices, such as the iPhone, Android and iPad, are equipped with powerful, modern browsers. However, regular websites are not optimized for the specific features and constraints of these devices, such as limited screen estate, unreliable Internet access, touch-based interaction patterns, and features such as GPS. While recent advances in web technology enable web developers to build web applications that take advantage of the unique properties of mobile devices, developing such applications is not a clean, well-integrated experience. Developers are required to use many loosely coupled languages with limited tool support and application code is often verbose and imperative. We introduce mobl, a new language designed to declaratively construct mobile web applications. Mobl integrates languages for user interface design, data modeling and querying, scripting and web services into a single, unified language that is flexible, expressive, enables early detection of errors, and has good IDE support. We illustrate the design of the language with the implementation of ConfPlan, an application for keeping track of the schedule of conference events." tags: - "programming languages" - "optimization" - "interaction design" - "rule-based" - "meta programming" - "data-flow language" - "pattern language" - "meta-model" - "modeling language" - "modeling" - "web service" - "language modeling" - "language design" - "constraints" - "data-flow programming" - "data-flow" - "mobile code" - "code generation" - "web services" - "web applications" - "programming" - "program optimization" - "Meta-Environment" - "design" - "mobile" - "query language" - "domain-specific language" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/HemelVisser2011A" cites: 0 citedby: 0 institution: "Delft University of Technology" number: "TUD-SERG-2011-01" kind: "techreport" key: "HemelVisser2011A" - title: "Designing Syntax Embeddings and Assimilations for Language Libraries" author: - name: "Martin Bravenboer" link: "http://martin.bravenboer.name/" - name: "Eelco Visser" link: "http://eelcovisser.org" year: "2007" doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69073-3_5" abstract: "Language libraries extend regular libraries with domain-specific notation. More precisely, a language library is a combination of a domain-specific language embedded in the general-purpose host language, a regular library implementing the underlying functionality, and an assimilation transformation that maps embedded DSL fragments to host language code. While the basic architecture for realizing language libraries is the same for all applications, there are many design choices to be made in the design of a particular combination of library, guest language syntax, host language, and assimilation. In this paper, we give an overview of the design space for syntax embeddings and assimilations for the realization of language libraries. " links: doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69073-3_5" technicalreport: "https://researchr.org/publication/TUD-SERG-2008-042" tags: - "syntax embedding" - "syntax definition" - "assimilation" - "transformation language" - "architecture" - "language design" - "DSL" - "language libraries" - "design" - "transformation" - "domain-specific language" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/BravenboerV07" cites: 24 citedby: 1 pages: "34-46" booktitle: "Models in Software Engineering, Workshops and Symposia at MoDELS 2007, Nashville, TN, USA, September 30 - October 5, 2007, Reports and Revised Selected Papers" editor: - name: "Holger Giese" link: "https://researchr.org/alias/holger-giese" volume: "5002" series: "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" publisher: "Springer" isbn: "978-3-540-69069-6" kind: "inproceedings" key: "BravenboerV07" - title: "Decorated Attribute Grammars: Attribute Evaluation Meets Strategic Programming" author: - name: "Lennart C. L. Kats" link: "http://www.lclnet.nl/" - name: "Anthony M. Sloane" link: "http://www.comp.mq.edu.au/~asloane" - name: "Eelco Visser" link: "http://eelcovisser.org" year: "2009" doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00722-4_11" abstract: "Attribute grammars are a powerful specification formalism for tree-based computation, particularly for software language processing. Various extensions have been proposed to abstract over common patterns in attribute grammar specifications. These include various forms of copy rules to support non-local dependencies, collection attributes, and expressing dependencies that are evaluated to a fixed point. Rather than implementing extensions natively in an attribute evaluator, we propose attribute decorators that describe an abstract evaluation mechanism for attributes, making it possible to provide such extensions as part of a library of decorators. Inspired by strategic programming, decorators are specified using generic traversal operators. To demonstrate their effectiveness, we describe how to employ decorators in name, type, and flow analysis. " links: doi: "http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-00722-4_11" "technical report (pdf)": "http://www.lclnet.nl/publications/TUD-SERG-2008-038a.pdf" "project home page": "http://strategoxt.org/Stratego/Aster" tags: - "programming languages" - "rule-based" - "attribute grammars" - "program analysis" - "etaps" - "data-flow language" - "pattern language" - "generic programming" - "Stratego/XT" - "traversal" - "analysis" - "data-flow programming" - "data-flow" - "graph-rewriting" - "rules" - "C++" - "strategic programming" - "programming" - "rewriting" - "data-flow analysis" - "Aster" - "grammar" - "Stratego" researchr: "https://researchr.org/publication/KatsSV09" cites: 36 citedby: 1 pages: "142-157" booktitle: "Compiler Construction, 18th International Conference, CC 2009, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2009, York, UK, March 22-29, 2009. Proceedings" editor: - name: "Oege de Moor" link: "http://progtools.comlab.ox.ac.uk/members/oege" - name: "Michael I. Schwartzbach" link: "http://www.brics.dk/~mis/" volume: "5501" series: "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" publisher: "Springer" isbn: "978-3-642-00721-7" kind: "inproceedings" key: "KatsSV09"