PORIS: practical-oriented representation for instrument systems

摘要

This article presents a toolkit to define simple but powerful systems. The PORIS toolkit is an open and extensible source collaborative project that allows describing graph-based systems and their behavior in a snapshot. It provides a web editor for a domain visual specific language (DSL) and transformation tools to generate software prototypes, system configurations, specific user interfaces and documentation. Different kind of instruments, like the astronomical ones, can be described and represented using PORIS specifications and models. A significant advantage of using the PORIS toolkit is that makes it easier and lighter providing instant feedback to domain experts in the dynamic process of defining new instruments.