EAN: 9783642298240

SPRINGERBRIEFS IN COMPUTER SCIENCE ON THE MAT...

Computing as a discipline is maturing rapidly. However  with maturity often comes a plethora of
subdisciplines  which  as time progresses  can become isolationist. The subdisciplines of
modelling  metamodelling  ontologies and modelling languages within software engineering e.g.
have  to some degree  evolved separately and without any underpinning formalisms. Introducing
set theory as a consistent underlying formalism  Brian Henderson-Sellers shows how a coherent
framework can be developed that clearly links these four  previously separate  areas of
software engineering. In particular  he shows how the incorporation of a foundational ontology
can be beneficial in resolving a number of controversial issues in conceptual modelling 
especially with regard to the perceived differences between linguistic metamodelling and
ontological metamodelling. An explicit consideration of domain-specific modelling languages is
also included in his mathematical analysis of models  metamodels  ontologies and modelling
languages.This encompassing and detailed presentation of the state-of-the-art in modelling
approaches mainly aims at researchers in academia and industry. They will find the principled
discussion of the various subdisciplines extremely useful  and they may exploit the unifying
approach as a starting point for future research.

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