title: Generation of development environments for the Arden Syntax.
abstract: Providing appropriate development environments for specialized languages requires a significant development and maintenance effort. Specialized environments are therefore expensive when compared to their general-language counterparts. The Arden Syntax for Medical Logic Modules (MLM) is a standardized language for representing medical knowledge. We have used PROTEGE-II, a knowledge-engineering environment, to generate a number of experimental development environments for the Arden Syntax. MEDAILLE is the resulting MLM editor, which provides a user-friendly environment that allows users to create and modify MLM definitions. Although MEDAILLE is a generated editor, it has similar functionality, while reducing the programming effort, as compared to other MLM editors developed using traditional programming techniques. We discuss how developers can use PROTEGE-II to generate development environments for other standardized languages and for general programming languages.
authors.affiliation: Department of Computer and Information Science, Linköping University, Sweden. magba@ida.liu.se
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bång
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Eriksson
mesh_terms: D011381:Programming Languages; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design