Approach to the Development of Ontology-Driven Language Toolkits Based on Metamodeling

• Published in: International Conference on Application of Information and Communication Technologies pp. 1 - 6
• Main Authors: Ermakov, Ivan, Lanin, Viacheslav, Lyadova, Lyudmila, Proskuryakov, Kirill
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: IEEE 18.10.2023
• Subjects: Codes; domain-specific languages; domain-specific modeling; DSL; Grammar; metamodel generation; Metamodeling; model transformation rules; multifaceted ontology; Ontologies; Prototypes; Visualization
• ISSN: 2472-8586
• DOI: 10.1109/AICT59525.2023.10313152

The information systems are to be conforming to the requirements defined by domain experts. These requirements are formalized as models created with modeling tools. Applying these tools is complicated for domain experts. Domain specific modeling (DSM) with domain specific languages (DSL) reduces the semantic gap. However, the system development complication shifts to the creation of languages and tools for transforming models and code generation. An approach to automating DSL creation and facilitating code generation based on using multifaceted ontology is proposed. The generalized description of the multifaceted ontology is given. Tools of automating generation of new DSL metamodels based on mapping the corresponding domain ontology onto the metamodels of the selected base languages are described. Metamodels of the visual languages, grammars of the target text languages and transformation rules are also included into the ontology. The proposed approach is implemented as a research prototype of the language toolkits. Examples of metamodels and rules described in the ontology, as well as the results of their application are shown. The results of experiments confirmed practical significance of the approach to the ontology-driven language toolkits development.