Workshop on OCL and textual modeling
Mira Balaban, Jordi Cabot, Martin Gogolla, Claas Wilke · 2012
Modeling started out with visual notations such as UML and its precursors. As the modeling paradigm evolves and matures, there is a growing need in a proliferation of well-founded, but also easy-to-use modeling languages, adapted for specific tasks and domains, that might need to work in synergy for achieving complex applications. Past experience suggests that precise modeling often goes hand in hand with textual notations. The lack of precision that characterizes most visual modeling languages does not go along with the emerging Model Driven Engineerin (MDE) approach, which puts models at the center of the software development process. Being based on successive model transformations, MDE requires well defined, formally specified modeling languages, at a level of precision visual notations lack.