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Large language models (LLMs) can be used to support software development tasks, e.g., through code completion or code generation. However, their effectiveness drops significantly when considering less popular programming languages such as…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2026-03-06 David Delgado , Lola Burgueño , Robert Clarisó

This paper addresses the problem of specifying and parsing the syntax of domain-specific languages (DSLs) in a modular, user-friendly way. That is, we want to enable the design of composable DSLs that combine the natural syntax of external…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2012-01-04 Erik Silkensen , Jeremy G. Siek

Several solutions for specifying normative artefacts (norms, contracts, policies) in a computational processable way have been presented in the literature. Legal core ontologies have been proposed to systematize concepts and relationships…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-01-13 Giovanni Sileno , Thomas van Binsbergen , Matteo Pascucci , Tom van Engers

We define a domain-specific language (DSL) to inductively assemble flow networks from small networks or modules to produce arbitrarily large ones, with interchangeable functionally-equivalent parts. Our small networks or modules are "small"…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-09-06 Azer Bestavros , Assaf Kfoury

In a high-tech country products are becoming rapidly more complex. To manage the development process as well as to encounter unforeseen challenges, the understanding and thus the explicit modeling of organizational workflows is more…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Christian Berger , Tim Gülke , Bernhard Rumpe

Domain specific languages (DSLs) are increasingly used today. Coping with complex language definitions, evolving them in a structured way, and ensuring their error freeness are the main challenges of DSL design and implementation. The use…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Holger Krahn , Bernhard Rumpe , Stefan Völkel

We introduce a domain-specific language (DSL) for creating sets of tile types for simulations of the abstract Tile Assembly Model. The language defines objects known as tile templates, which represent related groups of tiles, and a small…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2009-03-06 David Doty , Matthew J. Patitz

Domain-specific languages are becoming increasingly important. Almost every application touches multiple domains. But how to define, use, and combine multiple DSLs within the same application? The most common approach is to split the…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2016-12-13 Piotr Danilewski , Philipp Slusallek

Domain-specific languages raise the level of abstraction in software development. While it is evident that programmers can more easily reason about very high-level programs, the same holds for compilers only if the compiler has an accurate…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2011-09-06 Tiark Rompf , Arvind K. Sujeeth , HyoukJoong Lee , Kevin J. Brown , Hassan Chafi , Martin Odersky , Kunle Olukotun

In many application domains, domain-specific languages can allow domain experts to contribute to collaborative projects more correctly and efficiently. To do so, they must be able to understand program structure from reading existing source…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Philip Heltweg , Georg-Daniel Schwarz , Dirk Riehle

The stakeholders involved in software development are becoming increasingly diverse, with both human contributors from varied backgrounds and AI-powered agents collaborating together in the process. This situation presents unique governance…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-10-17 Adem Ait , Gwendal Jouneaux , Javier Luis Cánovas Izquierdo , Jordi Cabot

Model-driven software development is a promising way to cope with the complexity of system integration in advanced robotics, as it already demonstrated its benefits in domains with comparably challenging system integration requirements.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2013-02-27 Arne Nordmann , Sebastian Wrede

Our environment, whether at work, in public spaces, or at home, is becoming more connected, and increasingly responsive. Meal preparation even when it involves simply heating ready-made food can be perceived as a complex process for people…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-06-22 Matteo Zallio , Paula Kelly , Barry Cryan , Damon Berry

In model-driven engineering, developing a textual domain-specific language (DSL) involves constructing a meta-model, which defines an underlying abstract syntax, and a grammar, which defines the concrete syntax for the DSL. Language…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-02-01 Weixing Zhang , Jörg Holtmann , Daniel Strüber , Regina Hebig , Jan-Philipp Steghöfer

Our community believes that new domain-specific languages should be as general as possible to increase their impact. However, I argue in this essay that we should stop claiming generality for new domain-specific languages. More general…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2019-02-15 Daco Harkes

Generation of software from modeling languages such as UML and domain specific languages (DSLs) has become an important paradigm in software engineering. In this contribution, we present some positions on software development in a model…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2014-09-09 Bernhard Rumpe , Martin Schindler , Steven Völkel , Ingo Weisemöller

The First International Workshop on Domain-Specific Languages and models for ROBotic systems (DSLRob'10) was held at the 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS'10), October 2010 in Taipei, Taiwan. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2011-02-23 Ulrik P. Schultz , Serge Stinckwich , Mikal Ziane

Large language models (LLMs) have significantly advanced the field of natural language processing (NLP), providing a highly useful, task-agnostic foundation for a wide range of applications. However, directly applying LLMs to solve…

A domain specific language (DSL) abstracts from implementation details and is aligned with the way domain experts reason about a software component. The development of DSLs is usually centered around a grammar and transformations that…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-03-30 Sarmen Keshishzadeh , Arjan J. Mooij , Jozef Hooman

Programming robots is a complicated and time-consuming task. A robot is essentially a real-time, distributed embedded system. Often, control and communication paths within the system are tightly coupled to the actual physical configuration…

Robotics · Computer Science 2014-01-08 Thomas Buchmann , Johannes Baumgartl , Dominik Henrich , Bernhard Westfechtel