Towards automatization of domain modeling

Data and Knowledge Engineering

Volumn 69, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 491-515

  Reinhartz Berger, Iris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Domain analysis; Domain engineering; DSL; Metamodeling; Product line engineering; UML

Indexed keywords

APPLICATION MODELS; COMMON KNOWLEDGE; COMMONALITY AND VARIABILITY; CONSISTENCY LEVEL; DOMAIN ANALYSIS; DOMAIN ENGINEERING; DOMAIN MODEL; DOMAIN MODELING; HIGH LEVEL OF ABSTRACTION; METAMODELING; PRODUCT LINE ENGINEERING; SCHEDULING SYSTEMS; SCHEMA INTEGRATION; SEMI-AUTOMATED; STRUCTURAL ASPECTS;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE REUSABILITY; DSL; MODEMS; ONTOLOGY; PRODUCTION ENGINEERING; QUERY LANGUAGES; SCHEDULING; SPACE DIVISION MULTIPLE ACCESS; TELECOMMUNICATION LINES;

MULTITASKING;

EID: 77949656420     PISSN: 0169023X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.datak.2010.01.002     Document Type: Article

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