The Generic Modeling Environment

TLDR

The Generic Modeling Environment (GME) is a configurable, primarily graphical toolset that enables domain‑specific modeling of applications and their hardware environments to support program synthesis. This paper presents the GME toolset and compares it to other similar approaches. GME models are automatically used to synthesize applications or generate inputs for commercial off‑the‑shelf analysis tools. The approach has been applied to signal‑processing, tool integration, and structurally adaptive systems, and a case study demonstrates its core concepts.

Abstract

The Generic Modeling Environment (GME) is a con- figurable toolset that supports the easy creation of d o- main-specific modeling and program synthesis environ- ments. The primarily graphical, domain-specific models can represent the application and its environment includ- ing hardware resources, and their relationship. The mod- els are then used to automatically synthesize the applica- tion and/or generate inputs to COTS analysis tools. In addition to traditional signal processing problems, we have applied this approach to tool integration and struc- turally adaptive systems among other domains. This pa- per describes the GME toolset and compares it to other similar approaches. A case study is also presented that illustrates the core concepts through an example.