A Context-Free Grammar for Building Conceptual Models.

Abstract

This research paper is devoted to building a software tool that supports the definition of a simulation model. The objective is to specify a syntax that allows defining a conceptual model from an abstraction of some real-world situation. For this purpose, grammar is defined to recognize valid sentences and then, to get a set of relationships between entities building the model through a class diagram. Several software tools are used for such a development. First, ANTLR4 was used to define syntactic rules to recognize valid sentences in the grammar. Then, USE was used to make a class diagram for the purpose of defining classes and establishing relationships between them. Finally, Java was used to build the classes that allow getting an object diagram.