Metamodeling for Method Engineering (Hardcover)

This text is a guide to the foundations of method engineering, a developing field concerned with the definition of techniques for designing software systems. The approach is based on metamodeling, the construction of a model about a collection of other models. The book applies the metamodeling approach in five case studies, each describing a solution to a problem in a specific domain. Suitable for classroom use, the book is also useful as a reference for practitioners.

The book first presents the theoretical basis of metamodeling for method engineering, discussing information modeling, the potential of metamodeling for software systems development, and the introduction of the metamodeling tool ConceptBase. The second, and larger, portion of the book reports on applications of the metamodeling approach to method engineering. These detailed case studies range from telecommunication service specification, hypermedia design, and data warehousing to cooperative requirements engineering, chemical device modeling, and design of new abstraction principles of modeling languages. Although these chapters can stand alone as case studies, they also relate to the earlier theoretical chapters. The metamodeling approach described in the book is based on the Telos metamodeling language implemented by the ConceptBase system. An accompanying CD-ROM contains the ConceptBase system and a large collection of Telos metamodels discussed in the text. The CD-ROM enables readers to start directly with method engineering, from small method chunks up to complete method definitions. The complete definition of Ed Yourdon's structured analysis method is included as an instructional example.

Cooperative Information Systems series

這本書是一本關於方法工程基礎的指南，該領域致力於定義設計軟體系統的技術。這種方法基於元模型，即構建關於其他模型集合的模型。本書通過五個案例研究應用元模型方法，每個案例描述了特定領域中的問題解決方案。本書適合課堂使用，也可作為從業人員的參考資料。

本書首先介紹了方法工程的元模型理論基礎，討論了信息建模、元模型在軟體系統開發中的潛力，以及元模型工具ConceptBase的介紹。書中的第二部分更大篇幅報告了元模型方法在方法工程中的應用。這些詳細的案例研究涵蓋了電信服務規範、超媒體設計、數據倉儲、合作需求工程、化學設備建模以及新的建模語言抽象原則設計等領域。雖然這些章節可以獨立作為案例研究，但它們也與前面的理論章節相關聯。本書中描述的元模型方法基於ConceptBase系統實現的Telos元模型語言。附帶的CD-ROM包含了ConceptBase系統和書中討論的大量Telos元模型。CD-ROM使讀者能夠直接從小的方法塊開始進行方法工程，直至完整的方法定義。書中還包含了Ed Yourdon的結構化分析方法的完整定義作為教學示例。

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