SLE 2014 - The 7th International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE)

International Conference on Software Language Engineering (SLE) is devoted to topics related to artificial languages in software engineering. SLE's mission is to encourage and organize communication among communities that have traditionally looked at software languages from different and yet complementary perspectives. Of particular relevance to SLE are technologies, methods, experiments, and case studies on software languages from researchers and practitioners who use modeling, grammar, or ontology-based approaches. Research that bridges, connects and integrates such approaches is particularly welcome.
The term "software language" refers to artificial languages used in software development. These include general-purpose programming languages, domain-specific languages, modeling and metamodeling languages, data models and ontologies. Examples include general purpose modeling languages such as SysML and UML, metamodeling frameworks such as Ecore, MOF or GOPRR, domain-specific modeling languages for business process modeling, such as BPMN, or embedded systems, such as Simulink or Modelica, and specialized XML-based and OWL-based languages and vocabularies. The term "software language" is intentionally broad; besides the above categories and examples, it also encompasses implicit approaches to language definition, such as APIs and collections of design patterns.
Software language engineering is the application of systematic, disciplined, and measurable approaches to the development (design, implementation, testing, deployment), use, deployment, and maintenance (evolution, recovery, and retirement) of these languages. Of special interest are (1) formal descriptions of languages that are used to design or generate language-based tools and (2) methods and tools for managing such descriptions, including modularization, refactoring, refinement, composition, versioning, co-evolution, recovery, and analysis.