Section: Partnerships and Cooperations

International Initiatives

Inria International Labs

IIL CWI-Inria

Associate Team involved in the International Lab:

ALE

• Title: Agile Language Engineering

• International Partner (Institution - Laboratory - Researcher):

  • CWI (Netherlands) Tijs van der Storm

• Start year: 2017

• See also: http://gemoc.org/ale/

• Software engineering faces new challenges with the advent of modern software-intensive systems such as complex critical embedded systems, cyber-physical systems and the Internet of things. Application domains range from robotics, transportation systems, defense to home automation, smart cities, and energy management, among others. Software is more and more pervasive, integrated into large and distributed systems, and dynamically adaptable in response to a complex and open environment. As a major consequence, the engineering of such systems involves multiple stakeholders, each with some form of domain-specific knowledge, and with an increasingly use of software as an integration layer.

  Hence more and more organizations are adopting Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) to allow domain experts to express solutions directly in terms of relevant domain concepts. This new trend raises new challenges about designing DSLs, evolving a set of DSLs and coordinating the use of multiple DSLs for both DSL designers and DSL users.

  ALE will contribute to the field of Software Language Engineering, aiming to provide more agility to both language designers and language users. The main objective is twofold. First, we aim to help language designers to leverage previous DSL implementation efforts by reusing and combining existing language modules. Second, we aim to provide more flexibility to language users by ensuring interoperability between different DSLs and offering live feedback about how the model or program behaves while it is being edited (aka. live programming/modeling).

Inria International Partners

Informal International Partners

• Université de Montréal (Canada)

• McGill University (Canada)

• University of Alabama (USA)

• TU Wien (Austria)

• Michigan State University (MSU)

• Aachen University (Germany)

• KTH (Sweden)

Participation in Other International Programs

The GEMOC studio has been sustained through the creation of a Research Consortium at the Eclipse Foundation.

International initiative GEMOC

The GEMOC initiative (cf. http://www.gemoc.org) is an open and international initiative launched in 2013 that coordinates research partners worldwide to develop breakthrough software language engineering (SLE) approaches for global software engineering through the use of multiple domain-specific languages. GEMOC members aim to provide effective SLE solutions to problems associated with the design and implementation of collaborative, interoperable and composable modeling languages.

The GEMOC initiative aims to provide a framework that facilitates collaborative work on the challenges of using of multiple domain-specific languages in software development projects. The framework consists of mechanisms for coordinating the work of members, and for disseminating research results and other related information on GEMOC activities. The framework also provides the required infrastructure for sharing artifacts produced by members, including publications, case studies, and tools.

The governance of the GEMOC initiative is ensured by the Advisory Board. The role of the Advisory Board is to coordinate the GEMOC work and to ensure proper dissemination of work products and information about GEMOC events (e.g., meetings, workshops).

Benoit Combemale is the co-founder and currently acts as principal coordinator of the GEMOC initiative. Benoit Combemale and Jean-Marc Jézéquel are part of the Advisory Board, and 9 DIVERSE members are part of the GEMOC initiative.