Reducing accidental complexity in domain models

Software and Systems Modeling

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 345-359

  Atkinson, Colin ^a   Kühne, Thomas ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANNHEIM   (Germany)

^b DARMSTADT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Accidental complexity; Deep instantiation; Domain modeling; Model quality; Modeling languages; Modeling paradigm; Powertypes; Stereotypes

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENTS; ARSENIC COMPOUNDS; DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING; MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SOLUTIONS;

DOMAIN MODELING; ENGINEERING SOLUTIONS; FUNDAMENTAL PRINCIPLES; MAINSTREAM (MS); MODEL-DRIVEN DEVELOPMENT (MDD);

MODELS;

EID: 47149110241     PISSN: 16191366     EISSN: 16191374     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10270-007-0061-0     Document Type: Article

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