An OO Visual Language Definition Approach Supporting Multiple Views

The formal approach to visual language definition is to use graph grammars and/or graph transformation techniques. These techniques focus on specifying the syntax and manipulation rules of the concrete representation. This paper presents a constraint and object-oriented approach to defining visual languages that uses UML and OCL as a definition language. Visual language definitions specify a mapping between concrete ract models of possible visual sentences, which can subsequently be used to determine if instances of each model “validly” express each other. This technique supports many:many mappings between concrete and model instances, and supports the implementation of functionality that requires feedback abstract domain to the concrete.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2000
• Where: VL
• Authors: David H. Akehurst
• Keywords: Concrete, Visual Language, Visual Language Definitions, Visual Languages, VL 2000