Students may complete this program with a maximum of 75 credits or a minimum of 72 credits if they are exempt from taking comp 202. The strengths and weaknesses of metamodelling environments are discussed, while their limitations to metamodelling at the level of both software process method engineering and product methods metaspecifications are critically examined. Use of models and modelling languages in software engineering is very common nowadays. Software development methodologies and metamodelling a major area of interest within the computing discipline of software engineering is that of software development methodologies. Introducing set theory as a consistent underlying formalism, brian hendersonsellers shows how a coherent framework can be developed that clearly. Metamodelling for software engineering book, 2008 worldcat. Model driven software engineering mdse is an emerging methodology for software development, targeting productivity, flexibility and reliability of systems. Metadata, metamodelling, and metaprogramming an indispensible basis for. Software engineering stack exchange is a question and answer site for professionals, academics, and students working within the systems development life cycle. When and how to use multilevel modelling acm transactions. Metamodelling for software engineering by cesar gonzalezperez, brian hendersonsellers get metamodelling for software engineering now with oreilly online learning. Introducing set theory as a consistent underlying formalism, brian hendersonsellers shows how a coherent framework can be developed that clearly links these four, previously.
With the proliferation of metamodeling techniques developed to provide enhanced performance for specific problems, and the wide availability of a diverse choice of tools in engineering software packages, the engineering task of selecting a robust metamodeling technique for practical problems is still a challenge. The subdisciplines of modelling, metamodelling, ontologies and modelling languages within software engineering e. With the proliferation of metamodeling techniques developed to provide enhanced performance for specific problems, and the wide availability of a diverse choice of tools in engineering software packages, the engineering. Information and software technology method engineering and. Metamodelling for software engineering request pdf. Jul 27, 2019 metamodelling or surrogate modelling techniques are frequently used across the engineering disciplines in conjunction with expensive simulation models or physical experiments.
Metamodeling is the name commonly given to the practice of using a model to describe another model as an instance. The essential change is that models are no longer used only as mere documentation for programmers, but can now directly be used to drive software development. Following the successful use of objectoriented metamodeling in the definition of the uml and other notation standards there is increasing interest. Metamodelling for software engineering is a comprehensive and practical guide to a subject that is growing in interest and importance and is becoming the standard way of defining software development methodologies, including both processes and languages such as uml.
Under the new development era the requirements of software development change. Metamodelling for software engineering ebook, 2008. Pdf interoperability of software engineering metamodels. Formal metamodelling and agile method engineering in. Fdd blends a number of industryrecognized best practices into a cohesive whole. It presents a comprehensive metamodel that covers process, product and quality issues under a. Metamodelling for software engineering this book focuses on metamodelling as a discipline, exploring its foundations, techniques and results. Pdf a flexible metamodelling approach for healthcare systems. One of the currently most active branch of model driven engineering is the approach named modeldriven architecture proposed by omg. We have developed a framework for facilitating metamodel. The software engineering major program provides a broad introduction to the principles of computer science and covers in depth the design and development of software systems. Metamodelling for software engineering by cesar gonzalezperez.
Brian hendersonsellers this book focuses on metamodelling as a discipline, exploring its foundations, techniques and results. Even though these tools facilitate the automation of software engineering tasks and activities, such tools are typically engineered manually. It presents a comprehensive metamodel that covers process, product and quality issues under a common framework. Here, we investigate the literature on both metamodelling and ontologies in order to identify ways in which they can be made compatible and linked in such a way as to benefit both communities and create a contribution to a coherent underpinning theory for software engineering. The paper refers to the latest developments in the area of software engineering and emphasises the shift from traditional conceptual modelling to requirements engineering and process metamodelling principles. The 11th ieee working conference on reverse engineering, delft, november 8th12th 2004. Citeseerx formal metamodelling and agile method engineering. Cesar gonzalezperez is the author of metamodelling for software engineering 3. A methodology has several constituent parts including a full. Interoperability of these metamodels has emerged as a key concern for their practical usage. Cesar gonzalezperez author of metamodelling for software. Standard approaches to mde like those based on mof or emf advocate a twolevel metamodelling setting where domainspecific modelling languages dsmls are defined through a.
Proceedings of the 1997 national research and development conference. It is a lightweight or agile method for developing software. The ceur workshop proceedings of the the 11th majorov international conference on software engineering and computer systems was published. Software engineering faculty of science undergraduate. This book focuses on metamodelling as a discipline, exploring its foundations, techniques and results. A flexible metamodelling approach for healthcare systems. Citeseerx citation query the generic eclipse modeling system. Models and model elements are given a firstclass status. Framework for the interoperability of software engineering metamodels muhammad atif qureshi a thesis submitted for the degree of doctor of philosophy. Metamodelling for software engineering is a comprehensive and practical guide to a subject which is growing in interest and importance and is becoming the standard way of defining a language, such as uml. Ontologies are expected to play an important role in many application domains, as well as in software engineering in general.
Arts students that are interested in further study in computer science can combine the major concentration in software engineering with. Metamodelling in agent oriented software engineering. One problem with using ontologies within software engineering is that while uml, a widely used standard for specifying and constructing the models for a software intensive system, has a fourlayer metamodelling architecture, the standard web. Developing software from models is a growing practice and there exist many modelbased tools e. Metamodelling for software engineering guide books. Dec, 2019 proceedings of the xi majorov international conference on software engineering and computer systems, which will be published in the first half of 2020 and will be indexed in the rsci database.
Formal metamodelling and agile method engineering in metacase. Donyina syllabus tcss490590advanced software engineering page 6 of 6 teaching and learning center tlc the teaching and learning center tlc in sno 260 offers free academic support for students at all levels. One feature of metamodeling is that it must be possible to assign properties to classes in the model. Selection from metamodelling for software engineering book. The process seeks to provide an explicit specification of the constructs and rules of how a domainspecific model or language is built. Donyina syllabus tcss490590advanced software engineering page 2 of 6 css degree student learning outcomes that this course contributes to a.
Based on the results of your participation in the conference, the organizing committee offers you to. Framework for the interoperability of software engineering. To formalize these modelling languages, many metamodels have been proposed in the software engineering literature as well as by standard organizations. Software development methodologies and metamodelling. Metadata, metamodelling, and metaprogramming an indispensible basis for cbse prof. A comprehensive and practical guide to metamodelling in software engineering. This chapter discusses the current state of the art, and emerging research challenges, for metamodelling. In software engineering, the use of models is an alternative to more common codebased development techniques. These practices are driven from a clientvalued functionality perspective. Computeraided software engineering case, in the field software engineering is the scientific application of a set of tools and methods to a software which results in highquality, defectfree, and maintainable software products.
Ontological thinking, largely from the research field of artificial intelligence, has been increasingly investigated by software engineering researchers, more familiar with the idea of a metamodel. An explanation of what metamodelling is and why it is necessary in the context of software engineering. Method engineering is the area of software engineering devoted to the creation and customisation of software methods 15. Several works have shown how mde techniques, such as metamodelling and. Featuredriven development fdd is an iterative and incremental software development process. Towards 2000, south african institute of computer science and information technology, riverside sun, 14 november, 2000, edited by l. Dean allemang, jim hendler, in semantic web for the working ontologist second edition, 2011. A methodology has several constituent parts including a full lifecycle process, a comprehensive set of.
Citeseerx document details isaac councill, lee giles, pradeep teregowda. Bridging metamodels and ontologies in software engineering. Metamodelling for software engineering gonzalezperez. This program provides a more challenging and researchoriented version of the major software engineering program. Over the last several years, metamodels and ontologies have been developed in parallel isolation. Rather than covering the outcomes of modeling this text will examine it as a discipline, exploring its foundations, techniques and results. Introduction to software engineeringprocessmethodology. The major concentration software engineering focuses on the techniques and methodology required to design and develop complex software systems and covers the subject commonly known as software engineering. Basic concepts and principles of this book focuses on metamodelling as a discipline, exploring its foundations, techniques and results. Ideal for advanced courses in software engineering, as well as being useful for researchers, industry and practitioners.
Multecores main plugin is a model editor based in emf and sirius, and combines the tool support, modelling ecosystem and low learning curve of emf with the unlimited number of abstraction levels, potencies and flexible typing of multilevel metamodelling. References metamodelling for software engineering book. The liberal program covers a core of programming and software engineering courses and allows students to select courses that aim at practical aspects of software development. On the mathematics of modelling, metamodelling, ontologies. Modeldriven engineering mde promotes models as the primary artefacts in the software development process, from which code for the final application is derived. In a previous article about modeldriven engineering ive stated that the basic principle of mde is that everything is a model. Combining general purpose languages and domain specific. Multecore is a metamodelling tool which brings together the best of the worlds of fixedlevel and multilevel metamodelling approaches. Students may complete this program with a maximum of 75 credits or a minimum of 72 credits if they are exempt from taking comp 202 honours students must maintain a cgpa of at least 3. Requirements engineering and process modelling in software. Performance evaluation of metamodelling methods for. Due to their complexity and plethora of requirements placed upon them.
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