Enabling the Collaborative Definition of DSMLs

Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo, Jordi Cabot

{javier.canovas,jordi.cabot}@inria.fr

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No support for DSMLs

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Providing means to discuss about language

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Overcoming technical barriers

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Fostering end-user discussion

Facilitating voting processes

Suitable environment

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Abstract Syntax

Concrete Syntax

Participation Collaboration

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What do we propose toget this?

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Environment

Environment

Not enough…

• End-users are required to express changes at high-level of abstraction• Solution: Example-driven collaboration

Engagement is limited

• How to adapt the collaboration protocol?• Solution: Mechanism to define a democratic process

Collaboration strategies

• What happens with semantics?• Solution: Mechanisms to make easier the discussion about semantics

Semantics

• What is exactly a good notation?• Need of experimentation on this field

Good notations

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