Metamodelling - Utilization in Software Engineering
*CONVERTED TO SPECIAL SESSION*
 
July 5, 2008 - Porto, Portugal
In conjunction with the Third International Conference on Software and Data Technologies (ICSOFT 2008)
 
Co-chairs:
Cesar Gonzalez-Perez
IEGPS, CSIC,
Spain
Brian Henderson-Sellers
University of Technology,
Australia
 
 
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Metamodelling and modelling theory
- Metamodelling and ontologie s
- Impact of metamodelling on standards development
- Use of metamodelling in agent-oriented software engineering
- Use of metamodelling in object-oriented software engineering
- Metamodels as underpinnings for modelling languages
- The role of metamodels in MDA and model transformations
- Metamodelling in relation to tool building
- Metamodel support for process measurement and improvement
- Business reasons for adopting a metamodel
Special Session Program Committee
Colin Atkinson; University of Mannheim; Germany
Cesar Gonzalez-Perez; IEGPS, CSIC; Spain
Brian Henderson-Sellers; University of Technology, Sydney; Australia
Pavel Hruby; Microsoft; Denmark
Xabier Larrucea; European Software Institute; Spain
Jolita Ralyté; University of Geneva; Switzerland
Motoshi Saeki; Tokyo Institute of Technology; Japan
Miroslaw Staron; University of Göteborg; Sweden
Angelo Susi; Fondazione Bruno Kessler; Italy
Invited Keynote Lecturer
Prof. Colin Atkinson,
University of Mannheim,
Germany

Title: Connectors in a Multi-Level Modeling Environment

The advantage of supporting a uniform modeling approach across multiple, logical (or ontological) instantiation levels has been well documented in the literature. However, the published approaches for achieving this have focused on making it possible for classes and objects to be treated uniformly across multiple instantiation levels, but have neglected the problems involved in doing the same thing for "connectors" (i.e. concepts rendered as edges in graph based depictions of models rather than nodes). On closer examination, this turns out to be a significant problem, because without an effective strategy for modeling connectors in a uniform way, multi-level modeling as a whole is not possible. In this talk Colin Atkinson will describe the problems in the way that connectors (e.g. associations, links, generalizations etc.) are currently supported in mainstream modeling languages such as the UML and why they are incompatible with multi-level modeling. He will then present a solution involving three new principles for rendering and representing connectors in a multi-level modeling environment.
 

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