Nowadays, software and systems engineers are facing many challenges when they develop
new systems. Society is expecting those systems to have high quality, provide exciting …

Certainly, the success of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) as the de facto standard for
modeling software systems does not imply closing the door on scientific exploration or …

Abstract Model-Driven Architecture (MDA) brings benefits to software development, among
them the potential for connecting software models with the business domain. This paper …

We are pursuing a modeling methodology that views the world as a realm of things. A thing
is defined as something that can be created, processed, released, transferred, and received …

In this paper we try to clarify the confusions that lie around the widely used terms “analysis
model” and “design model” in software engineering. In our experience, these confusions are …

ABSTRACT The Model Driven Architecture (MDA) describes software development based
on models on different levels of abstraction. The development process is outlined as a …

Abstract Service-oriented architectures focus on the alignment of business processes and
the supporting information technology. To facilitate the alignment and to decrease …

The composite structure diagram and related notions have been introduced into UML2. 0 to
supplement already existing artifacts such as classes. However the usage of these …

This paper presents a software process definition language that is targeted towards the
development of software and systems using Model Driven Engineering methods. The …

Die Untersuchung der Abbildung von Analyse-auf Implementierungsmodelle ist der Teil
eines kontrovers diskutierten Kernthemas der Wirtschaftsinformatik, der mich seit meinem …