http:www'cis'uab'eduinfoOOPSLADSVL2

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2nd Workshop on Domain-Specific Visual Languages

• http//www.cis.uab.edu/info/OOPSLA-DSVL2/
• Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, Jeff Gray, Matti Rossi

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Objectives

• Intensive collaborative sessions
• Attempt to solve challenging problems facing
  DSVLs
• Establish collective plans of action
• Have something to report to OOPSLA community
• Have fun!

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About submissions

• 13 submissions
• 35 authors
• All papers were accepted! ?
• printed in the workshop proceedings
• 23 participants
• Papers divided into four groups
• DSVL Creation Theory and Practice
• DSVL Examples
• Tools for DSVLs
• DSVL Introduction and Evolution

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Program committee

• Papers reviews by PC members
• Pierre America, Philips
• Philip T. Cox, Dalhousie University
• Krzysztof Czarnecki, Daimler/Chrysler
• Jeff Gray, University of Alabama at Birmingham
• Steven Kelly, MetaCase Consulting
• Kalle Lyytinen, Case Western Reserve University
• David Oglesby, Honeywell
• Jyrki Okkonen, Nokia
• Matti Rossi, Helsinki School of Economics
• Juha-Pekka Tolvanen, MetaCase Consulting
• Sharon White, University of Houston

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Schedule and format
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DSVL framework

• Present DSVLs in wider context
• Research
• Practice
• Outline framework integrating research areas
• What areas are there
• Concerns in areas
• How areas are related
• Suggest common vocabulary for workshop

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DSVL demonstrations

• To have concrete examples
• Common outline
• Why the DSVL was developed?
• How it works?
• How it was developed?
• Example of the outcome and/or demo
• 4 demos
• Model transformation, Jon Sprinkle, Gabor Karsai
• SIM toolkit, Carsten Schmidt
• Different examples, J-P Tolvanen
• Arcus, Thomas Tensi

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Paper presentations

• DSVL Creation Theory and Practice
• On the Role of Domain Ontologies in the Design of
  Domain-Specific Visual Modeling Languages
• Giancarlo Guizzardi, Luis Ferreira Pires, Marten
  J. van Sinderen
• Tools for DSVLs
• Toward Next Generation Metamodeling Tools
• Kirk Schloegel, David Oglesby, Eric Engstrom

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Working groups

• Focus on a specific topic
• Three parallel groups
• DSVL Creation Theory and Practice
• Tools for DSVLs
• DSVL Introduction and Evolution
• The goal of those groups is to
• establish theoretical background
• summarise past experience
• investigate most interesting approaches
• identify future research topics
• Groups present their results for discussion

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Publishing results

• Poster in OOPSLA 2002
• Spreading the word
• Presented in Welcome Reception
• Visible in Exhibition Hall during conference
• Workshop web-site
• http//www.cis.uab.edu/info/OOPSLA-DSVL2/
• Papers
• Presentations
• Workgroup results
• Photos ?