Concept and pragmatics of an intuitive visualization-oriented metamodeling tool
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Buchtitel:
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
Original Kurzfassung:
In this article we present a metamodeling tool that is strictly oriented towards the needs of the working domain expert. The working domain expert looks for intuitive metamodeling features. In particular, these features include rich capabilities for specifying the visual appearance of models. Our research has identified an important design rationale for metamodeling tools that we call visual reification, which is the notion that metamodels are visualized the same way as their instances. Our tool supports both standard and innovative metamodeling features oriented towards the principle of visual reification. In this paper we present an unbiased discussion of the pragmatics of metamodeling tools against the background of this design rationale.
Sprache der Kurzfassung:
Englisch
Journal:
Journal of Visual Languages and Computing
Veröffentlicher:
Academic Press, Inc. Orlando, FL, USA
Volume:
21
Seitenreferenz:
157-170
Erscheinungsmonat:
6
Erscheinungsjahr:
2010
ISSN:
1045-926X
Anzahl der Seiten:
14
Reichweite:
international
Publikationstyp:
Aufsatz / Paper in sonstiger referierter Fachzeitschrift
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