Evaluating the expressiveness of domain specific modeling languages using the Bunge-Wand-Weber ontology

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages

  Becker, Jörg ^a   Bergener, Philipp ^a   Breuker, Dominic ^a   Räckers, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED PROCESS; BUILDING BLOCKES; BUSINESS PROCESS; BUSINESS PROCESS MANAGEMENT; DOMAIN SEMANTICS; DOMAIN SPECIFIC MODELING LANGUAGES; GENERIC PROCESS; MODELING LANGUAGES; PROCESS MODELING; SPECIFIC PROBLEMS;

AUTOMATION; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; LINGUISTICS; ONTOLOGY; SEMANTICS;

QUERY LANGUAGES;

EID: 77951717696     PISSN: 15301605     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HICSS.2010.190     Document Type: Conference Paper

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