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Domain-Specific Modelling Using Mobile Devices

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Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs) are languages tailored for a specific application area, like logistics, networking or mobile app design. They capture the main primitives and abstractions within a domain, which permits modelling systems and problems within that domain in a succinct and natural way. DSLs are heavily used in software development paradigms like Model-Driven Engineering, and they are also a means to enable end-users to perform simple programming tasks in particular domains.

Traditionally, modelling using DSLs has been supported by desktop computers in static settings that neglect the surrounding contextual information. Instead, we claim that DSLs can also be very useful in a dynamic setting where they can profit from mobility and context. Therefore, in this paper, we identify several scenarios where modelling using mobile devices – like smartphones or tablets – is useful. We also propose an architecture and a tool, called DSL-comet, which enables mobile modelling using graphical DSLs, and supports seamless integration of desktop and mobile graphical modelling environments.

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    Airdrop is a file sharing technology of iOS similar to Bluetooth.

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This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitivity (TIN2014-52129-R), and the R&D programme of the Madrid Region (S2013/ICE-3006).

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    Diego Vaquero-Melchor, Antonio Garmendia, Esther Guerra & Juan de Lara

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Vaquero-Melchor, D., Garmendia, A., Guerra, E., de Lara, J. (2017). Domain-Specific Modelling Using Mobile Devices. In: Cabello, E., Cardoso, J., Ludwig, A., Maciaszek, L., van Sinderen, M. (eds) Software Technologies. ICSOFT 2016. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 743. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-62569-0_11

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