Meta-Modeling Task

A Meta-Modeling Task is a modeling task that involves creating a metamodel (to represent the properties, structure, and rules of a specific set of models within a given domain).

• Context:
  • It can define the formal structure for other models, ensuring consistency and standardization across related modeling frameworks.
  • It can be used in software engineering, data modeling, and knowledge representation to establish meta-level descriptions of modeling languages.
  • It can enable automated analysis, transformation, and integration of models.
  • It can support model-driven development by providing a higher-level abstraction layer.
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• Example(s):
  • Unified Modeling Language (UML) Metamodel creation task.
  • Meta-Object Facility (MOF) creation task.
  • Business Process Modeling Notation (BPMN) Metamodel creation task.
  • Data Meta-Model Creation Task (of data metamodels).
  • Maturity Meta-Modeling Modeling ...
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• Counter-Example(s):
  • A Standard Modeling Task, which directly creates models without defining the structural rules for other models.
  • A Schema Design Task, which focuses on creating a single schema rather than a metamodel governing schemas.
• See: Model-Driven Architecture, Domain-Specific Language, Modeling Language, Meta-Modeling, Scientific Modelling, Meta (Prefix), Software Engineering, Systems Engineering.

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References

2024

• (Wikipedia, 2024) ⇒ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamodeling Retrieved:2024-10-11.
  • A metamodel is a model of a model, and metamodeling is the process of generating such metamodels. Thus metamodeling or meta-modeling is the analysis, construction, and development of the frames, rules, constraints, models, and theories applicable and useful for modeling a predefined class of problems. As its name implies, this concept applies the notions of meta- and modeling in software engineering and systems engineering. Metamodels are of many types and have diverse applications.

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