A behavioral perspective in meta-modeling

Saïd Assar (1, 2) , Sana Damak Mallouli (2) , Carine Souveyet (2)

1 IMT-BS - DSI - Département Systèmes d'Information
2 CRI - Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Paris 1

Meta-models are essential artifacts for specifying and reasoning on models and on methods. Traditionally, meta-modeling follows the " data " perspective and only the structural part of a model is represented. The " process " and " behavior " perspectives are neglected or partly represented, and for a process meta-model, such specifications express its enactment and execution semantics. From a Computer Aided Method Engineering (CAME) point of view, such specifications are necessary for enacting the process part of a method when specified. In this paper, we defend the position that in process meta-modeling, it is essential to include the behavior perspective, and that event-based meta-modeling can help in expressing, graphically and at high level of abstraction, the executable semantics of a process modeling notation. We illustrate this approach through the construction of event-based meta-models for the intention oriented Map notation.

Mots clés: Meta-modeling; Method engineering; Model executability; Behavioral perspective in meta-modeling; Event-based meta-modeling; Meta-CASE tool; CAME tool

Domaines: Informatique et langage [cs.CL]

Saïd Assar, Sana Damak Mallouli, Carine Souveyet. A behavioral perspective in meta-modeling. ICSOFT 2011 : 6th International Conference on Software and Data Technologies, Volume 2, Jul 2011, Séville, Spain. pp.238-243. ⟨hal-01513015⟩