Sirius is a powerful framework for implementing graphical editors for modelling languages. Sirius can help manage model complexity by presenting the same model through multiple notations (“viewpoints” in Sirius), dedicated to different audiences and/or tasks. However, this flexibility comes at the expense of having to manually define the mapping between each viewpoint and the metamodel. This paper explores a textual notation to efficiently annotate a metamodel with such a mapping, and transform the metamodel into one or more Sirius viewpoint descriptors, with the aim to reduce the manual work required to produce and maintain Sirius-based graphical notations. We present Aconite, an open-source tool which implements this approach, and demonstrate it through the re-implementation of a common Sirius example notation, and a simplified version of a BPMN editor. Aconite includes mechanisms for automated generation of navigation expressions in common scenarios, and for inheritance of graphical styles to reduce repetition.

Sun 20 Oct

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11:00 - 12:30
Software Language Integration and CompositionSLE at IBR East
Chair(s): Juliana Alves Pereira Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio)
11:00
30m
Talk
Cooperative Specification via Composition Control
SLE
Christopher Esterhuyse University of Amsterdam, L. Thomas van Binsbergen University of Amsterdam
DOI Pre-print
11:30
30m
Talk
Aconite: Towards Generating Sirius-Based Graphical Editors from Annotated Metamodels
SLE
Nathan Richardson University of York, Dimitris Kolovos University of York, Antonio Garcia-Dominguez University of York
DOI
12:00
30m
Talk
Towards an In-context LLM-based Approach for Automating the Definition of Model Views
SLE
James Pontes Miranda IMT Atlantique, LS2N (UMR CNRS 6004), Hugo Bruneliere IMT Atlantique, LS2N (UMR CNRS 6004), Massimo Tisi IMT Atlantique, LS2N (UMR CNRS 6004), Gerson Sunyé Nantes Université, LS2N (UMR CNRS 6004)
DOI