Johanson, Arne and Hasselbring, Wilhelm (2014) Sprat: Hierarchies of Domain-Specific Languages for Marine Ecosystem Simulation Engineering. [Paper] In: Spring Simulation Multi-Conference (SpringSim 2014). , 13-16 April 2014, Tampa, Florida, USA . Proceedings of the Symposium on Theory of Modeling and Simulation (TMS/DEVS 2014). ; pp. 187-192 . Simulation Series, 46 (4).

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Abstract

Scientific software is becoming more complex and its development nowadays is often an interdisciplinary process in which usually scientists - most of them without training in software engineering - implement the software themselves. To help them achieve a good code quality, we propose to employ a process called Sprat based on the concept of hierarchies of domain-specific languages (DSLs). In such a hierarchy, every DSL constitutes an implementation platform for the DSL directly above it. Each role in the development process (i.e., a scientist from a specific discipline) implements a layer of the software in a DSL belonging to the hierarchy. Therefore, the scientists only deal with abstractions they are familiar with from their respective domain and a clear separation of components is attained. To evaluate the Sprat approach, we present its application to the development of the Sprat simulation - a marine ecosystem model for long-term fish stock prediction.

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