Software Language Engineering: First International Conference, SLE 2008 Toulouse, France, September 29-30, 2008, Revised Selected Papers (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 5452)

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-conference proceedings of the First International Conference on Software Language Engineering, SLE 2008, held in Toulouse, France, in September 2008. The 16 revised full papers and 1 revised short paper presented together with 1 tool demonstration paper and 2 keynote lectures were carefully reviewed and selected from 106 initial submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on language and tool analysis and evaluation, concrete and abstract syntax, language engineering techniques, language integration and transformation, language implementation and analysis, as well as language engineering pearls. Front Matter....Pages - The Field of Software Language Engineering....Pages 1-7 Model-Driven Engineering Meets Generic Language Technology....Pages 8-15 Engineering Languages for Specifying Product-Derivation Processes in Software Product Lines....Pages 188-207 Transformation Language Integration Based on Profiles and Higher Order Transformations....Pages 208-226 Formalization and Rule-Based Transformation of EMF Ecore-Based Models....Pages 227-244 A Practical Evaluation of Using TXL for Model Transformation....Pages 245-264 DeFacto : Language-Parametric Fact Extraction from Source Code....Pages 265-284 A Case Study in Grammar Engineering....Pages 285-304 Sudoku – A Language Description Case Study....Pages 305-321 The Java Programmer’s Phrase Book....Pages 322-341 Evaluating the Visual Syntax of UML : An Analysis of the Cognitive Effectiveness of the UML Family of Diagrams....Pages 16-34 Neon: A Library for Language Usage Analysis....Pages 35-53 Analyzing Rule-Based Behavioral Semantics of Visual Modeling Languages with Maude....Pages 54-73 Parse Table Composition....Pages 74-94 Practical Scope Recovery Using Bridge Parsing....Pages 95-113 Generating Rewritable Abstract Syntax Trees....Pages 114-133 Systematic Usage of Embedded Modelling Languages in Automated Model Transformation Chains....Pages 134-150 Engineering a DSL for Software Traceability....Pages 151-167 Towards an Incremental Update Approach for Concrete Textual Syntaxes for UUID-Based Model Repositories....Pages 168-177 A Model Engineering Approach to Tool Interoperability....Pages 178-187 Back Matter....Pages -