Malte Lochau
Institute for Programming and Reactive Systems, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Henning Günther
Institute for Programming and Reactive Systems, TU Braunschweig, Germany
Download articlePublished in: Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Equation-Based Object-Oriented Languages and Tools
Linköping Electronic Conference Proceedings 29:6, p. 47-57
Published: 2008-07-02
ISBN: 978-91-7519-823-1
ISSN: 1650-3686 (print), 1650-3740 (online)
With the introduction of the new Modelica major version 3; innovations mainly consist of further model restrictions for increased model quality. In addition; developers often want to ensure the compliance to further requirements early in the development cycle. Mostly emerging as domain specific conventions that often crosscut model structures; according checking mechanisms are required that are detached from the core language. In this paper; a declarative language is presented for specifying and evaluating quantified rules for static model properties. Based on aspectoriented programming; the language allows for concise and expressive model inspections and a variable and typing concept facilitate subsequent model manipulations. A nascent implementation framework is proposed; based on the logic meta programming paradigm; thus leading to efficient and scalable aspect processing applicable as model query engine for an AOP Modelica Compiler.
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