Meta-tools for Software Language Engineering: A Flexible Collaborative Modeling Language for Efficient Telecommunications Service Design

The increasingly competitive environment pressures telecommunications service providers to reduce their concept-tomarket time. This time is inuenced by a multitude of factors. For the benet of telecom service designers, this paper focuses on increasing the degree of automation, oering team collaboration capabilities and bridging heterogeneous technologies. To address these factors, we propose a model-based meta-tool approach, which rapidly and iteratively generates particular tools for software languages. Each language is specic to one of the viewpoints involved in the denition

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