Guest lecture (16/4): Textual model representations in Eclipse using TEF

Models are abstract descriptions of a system. What is relevant information and what is not often depends on the concrete task to be performed on the model (editing, analysis, discussion, simulation). Different views of a model require different concrete representations. This lecture will show and discuss different techniques to separate models from their concrete textual representation, based on the Model-View-Controller pattern. We will use a tool (TEF) that allows to create semantically rich Eclipse text editors for different concrete syntaxes of the same meta-model.

The lecture will take place 16th of April at 09:00 (AUD C at AUC, Kampus Grimstad), with a one hour short intro to the subject followed by a 1,5 hour in-depth description. Afterwards there will be a hands on tutorial on the tool TEF (approximately two hours).

The lecture will be given by Markus Scheidgen which is currently pursuing his Phd on the use of object-oriented meta-modelling in language and language tool development at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Germany.