Abstract
A context-pattern describes common elements, structures, and stakeholders for a specific domain such as cloud computing. These commonalities for a context were obtained from observations about the domain from sources such as standards, domain specific-publications, domain experts, and guidelines. Existing context-patterns can be used for a structured elicitation and analysis of domain knowledge by instantiating the respective context-pattern. In the previous chapter, we showed a catalog of context-patterns. In this chapter, we aim at broadening the context-pattern approach by initiating a pattern language for context-patterns, which will be continuously improved. The aim of this language is to gain an understanding of common elements in context-patterns and support engineers in applying this knowledge for describing their own context-patterns. For this purpose, we analyzed the common concepts in our context-patterns and created a meta-model to show the common elements and their relations. Moreover, we defined a pattern language syntax for context-patterns based on the insights we gathered from analyzing possible relations and relation types between context-patterns. Furthermore, we compared our pattern language with different existing pattern languages. For this comparison, we contribute a structured template for describing pattern languages and instantiate the template for well-known pattern languages.
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The definition of the term language in the Oxford English Dictionary: http://www.oed.com.
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The term vocabulary defined in the Oxford dictionaries http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/vocabulary?q=vocabulary.
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The definition of the term semantic in the Oxford dictionaries http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/english/semantic.
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ACM citation count of analysis patterns: reusable objects models source: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=265172.
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ACM citation count of Design patterns: Elements of reusable object-oriented software source: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=186897.
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ACM citation count of Pattern-oriented software architecture: A system of patterns source: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=249013.
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Connection and relationship are synonyms according to dictonary.com: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/relationship.
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Beckers, K. (2015). Initiating a Pattern Language for Context-Patterns. In: Pattern and Security Requirements. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-16664-3_11
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