Abstract:
In many domains such as aerospace and automotive industries, engineers rely on Domain Specific Modeling Languages (DSML) to solve the complex issues of engineering safety critical software. Traditional Language Engineering starts with the grammar of a language to produce a variety of tools for processing programs expressed in this language. Recently however, many new languages tend to be first defined through metamodels, i.e. models describing their abstract syntax. Relying on well tooled standards such as E-MOF, this approach makes it possible to readily benefit from a set of tools such as reflexive editors, or XML serialization of models. This talk aims at showing how Model Driven Engineering can easily complement these off-the-shelf tools to obtain a complete environment for such a language, including interpreter, compiler, pretty-printer and customizable editors. We illustrate the conceptual simplicity and elegance of this approach using the running example of the well known LOGO programming language, developed within the Kermeta environment.

Biography:
Prof. Jean-Marc Jezequel received an engineering degree in Telecommunications from the ENSTB in 1986, and a Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of Rennes, France, in 1989. He first worked in Telecom industry (at Transpac) before joining the CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) in 1991. Since October 2000, he is a Professor at the University of Rennes, leading an INRIA research team called Triskell. His interests include model driven software engineering based on object oriented technologies for telecommunications and distributed systems. He is involved in several international collaborations, including the Artist2 Network of Excellence on Embedded Systems Design, and the AOSD-Europe Network of Excellence on Aspect-Oriented Software Development. He is the author of the books "Object-Oriented Software Engineering with Eiffel" and "Design Patterns and Contracts" (Addison-Wesley 1996 and 1999), and of more than 100 publications in international journals and conferences. He is a member of the steering committee of the MODELS and AOSD conference series. He also served on the editorial boards of IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering and on the Journal on Software and System Modeling: SoSyM and the Journal of Object Technology: JOT.