LEA xDSML is a three year research project concerned with language engineering methods for executable modeling languages. This project started in July 2018 at TU Wien and was moved in January 2019 to JKU Linz. It finished by the end of 2022. It was funded by the Austrian Science Fund FWF under the grant number P 30525-N31.

Context

LEA xDSML resides in the context of Model-Driven Engineering (MDE), which proposes the use of domain-specific modeling languages (DSMLs) to reduce the complexity associated with the development of complex software-intensive systems, as, for instance, found in the automation domain, production domain, and automotive domain.

DSMLs are increasingly being developed to continuously leverage the domain-specific expertise of the various stakeholders involved in the development of complex system. Thereby, the integration of domain-specific knowledge into DSMLs can significantly improve the productivity of the development process and the quality of the final system. However, the development of DSMLs has also been recognized as a challenging and significant software engineering task itself.