The Diagramed Model Query Language 2.0: Design, Implementation, and Evaluation

Delfmann Patrick, Riehle Dennis M, Höhenberger Steffen, Corea Carl, Drodt Christoph


Zusammenfassung
The Diagramed Model Query Language (DMQL) is a structural query language that operates on process models and related kinds of models, e.g., data models. In this article, we explain how DMQL works and report on DMQL's research process, which includes intermediate developments. The idea of a new model query language came from observations in industry projects, where it was necessary to deal with a variety of modeling languages, complex query requirements and the need for pinpointing the query results. Thus, we developed the Generic Model Query Language (GMQL) tailored to deal with models of arbitrary modeling languages and queries that express model graph structures of any complexity. GMQL queries are formulas and professionals expressed the need to specify queries more conveniently. Therefore, the next development step was DMQL, which comes with functionality similar to GMQL, but allows to specify queries graphically. In this article, we describe both query languages, their syntax, semantics, implementation and evaluation, and come up with a new version of DMQL, which includes new functionality. Finally, we relate GMQL and DMQL to the Process Querying Framework.

Schlüsselwörter
Process Model Analysis; Process Querying; Model Query Language



Publikationstyp
Forschungsartikel (Buchbeitrag)

Begutachtet
Ja

Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht

Jahr
2022

Buchtitel
Process Querying Methods

Herausgeber
Polyvyanyy Artem

Erste Seite
115

Letzte Seite
148

Verlag
Springer Nature

Ort
Cham

Sprache
Englisch

DOI