When dealing with complex systems, information is very often fragmented across many
different models expressed within a variety of (modeling) languages. To provide the relevant …

Embedding computing power in a physical environment has provided the functional
flexibility and performance necessary in modern products such as automobiles, aircraft …

During the development of large software-intensive systems, developers use several
modeling languages and tools to describe a system from different viewpoints. Model-driven …

Modeling complex systems involves dealing with several heterogeneous and interrelated
models defined using a variety of languages (UML, ER, BPMN, DSLs, etc.). These models …

Model-Driven Engineering provides an abstract representation of systems through the use of
models and views. For complex systems, however, finding a single model and a single view …

Fragmentation of information across instances of different metamodels poses a significant
problem for software developers and leads to a major increase in effort of transformation …

While developers and users of modern software systems usually only need to interact with a
specific part of the system at a time, they are hindered by the ever-increasing complexity of …

Software and systems engineering is challenged by variability in space (concurrent
variations at a single point in time) and time (sequential variations due to evolution) …

Ontologies as a means to formally specify the knowledge of a domain of interest have made
their way into information and communication technology. Most often, such knowledge is …

Abstract Model management is a central activity in Software Engineering. The most
challenging aspect of model management is to keep inter-related models consistent with …