Apricot - An Object-Oriented Modeling Language for Hybrid Systems

TL;DR

Apricot is an object-oriented modeling language designed for hybrid systems, combining domain-specific and object-oriented features with a simple syntax to bridge design and implementation.

Contribution

It introduces a novel object-oriented language with a clear syntax and semantics, integrating design by convention for hybrid systems modeling.

Findings

Supports scalable hybrid system modeling

Features simple and distinct syntax

Combines domain-specific and object-oriented paradigms

Abstract

We propose Apricot as an object-oriented language for modeling hybrid systems. The language combines the features in domain specific language and object-oriented language, that fills the gap between design and implementation, as a result, we put forward the modeling language with simple and distinct syntax, structure and semantics. In addition, we introduce the concept of design by convention into Apricot.As the characteristic of object-oriented and the component architecture in Apricot, we conclude that it is competent for modeling hybrid systems without losing scalability.