Do we need metamodels and ontologies for engineering platforms?

Proceedings of the 2006 International Workshop on Global Integrated Model Management, GaMMa 2006, co-located with the 28th International Conference on Software Engineering, ICSE 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 21-27

  Terrasse, Marie Noëlle ^a   Savonnet, Marinette ^a   Leclercq, Eric ^a   Grison, Thierry ^a   Becker, George ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE BOURGOGNE   (France)

^b NONE   (France)

Author keywords

Domain platform; Metamodel; Ontology; UML

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING; INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING; ONTOLOGY;

BUSINESS DOMAIN; COMPLEX DOMAINS; DOMAIN KNOWLEDGE; DOMAIN PLATFORM; FORMAL SYSTEMS; INITIAL PHASIS; META MODEL; METAMODELING;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 72449204636     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1138304.1138310     Document Type: Conference Paper

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