Combining Ontology-enriched Domain-Specific Languages.
Tobias Walter, Jürgen Ebert · 2009
Abstract. Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are high-level and should provide abstractions and notations for a better understanding and easier modeling of applications in a special domain. It is essential to combine different DSLs while modeling a complete system. Hence the question arises: How can we combine DSLs and in addition integrate their semantics and constraints? Based on a case study from an industrial partner, in this paper we first show how DSLs can be enriched by the ontology language OWL to define additional constraints and semantics within the DSL. Then we give an answer of how to combine these ontology-enriched DSLs and present a solution of integrating constraints and semantics of several languages. 1