Abstract
Metamodeling systems are used to facilitate development of modeling systems. Each metamodeling system provides a metamodeling language that is used to specify modeling languages. The abstract syntax of a metamodeling language can be specified by using a meta-metamodel. In this chapter, we discuss how to perform ontological analysis of metamodeling languages by using a foundational ontology. We investigate whether the results of the analysis give language designers sufficient information to improve the quality of metamodeling languages. As an experiment, we analyze two metamodeling languages based on the Unified Foundational Ontology (UFO) and suggest how to improve one of the metamodeling languages.
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This research was supported by European Social Fund’s Doctoral Studies and Internationalisation Programme DoRa.
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Eessaar, E., Sgirka, R. (2013). An Ontological Analysis of Metamodeling Languages. In: Pooley, R., Coady, J., Schneider, C., Linger, H., Barry, C., Lang, M. (eds) Information Systems Development. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-4951-5_31
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