Improving scientists ’ productivity using Domain-Specific Modeling

Involvement in the production of software often reduces a scientist’s productivity. While this has attracted the attention of software engineering researchers, much of the work to date has focused on improvement of the software itself, and has not investigated how the productivity of scientific research has or could be improved. The aim of the proposed research is to help scientists improve their productivity. This will be achieved by applying Domain-Specific Modeling (DSM) within the scientific software domain. We postulate that DSM will result in an improvement in the productivity of scientists through increased software development productivity, usability, transparency, reusability, and improved transfer of knowledge within the scientific community. Keywords domain-specific modeling, domain-specific language, software engineering, scientific software 1