Section: New Results

On the Globalization of Modeling Languages

In the software and systems modeling community, research on domain-specific modeling languages (DSMLs) is focused on providing technologies for developing languages and tools that allow domain experts to develop system solutions efficiently in a particular domain. Unfortunately, the current lack of support for explicitly relating concepts expressed in different DSMLs makes it very difficult for software and system engineers to reason about information spread across models describing different system aspects. Supporting coordinated use of DSMLs leads to what we call the globalization of modeling languages. We present a research initiative that broadens the current DSML research focus beyond the development of independent DSMLs to one that provides support for globalized DSMLs, that is, DSMLs that facilitate coordination of work across different domains of expertise [31] . We explore this new grand challenge in recent workshops, e.g., GlobalDSL'13 at ECSA, ECMFA and ECOOP 2013 [69] , and GEMOC'13 at MODELS 2013 [70] .