The design of a domain-specified visualization modeling language for warfare simulation based on meta-model

According to the theory of MDA, the domain meta-models for the Warfare Simulation System (WSS) are derived from the basic concepts and elements in the warfare simulation domain. Basing on these domain meta-models, a visualization domain-specified modeling language MT-CSML and its matching modeling toolkit CSMLDev are presented to diminish the negative influences of factors which exist in the traditional modeling process. The CSMLDev toolkit has four perspectives, which can give a detailed unified description about the static and dynamic features of the WSS. With MT-CSML and its modeling toolkit´s help, the modeling engineers can focus on the key business logic derived from the warfare domain knowledge and establish the components, entities and interaction relationships of the WSM conveniently. MT-CSML´s model is stored in readable XML format and the meta-models are compatible with MOF and BOM, which makes the further processing, transformation and extension possible. It is concluded from the practice that the MT-CSML is an intuitive visualization domain-specified modeling language, which has the multi-perspective describing capability to enable fewer cognitive-bias and more productivity in the domain modeling process.