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Co-evolution of (Information) System Models

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Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling (BPMDS 2010, EMMSAD 2010)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 50))

Abstract

Information systems’ modelling is based on separation of concern such as separation into facets or viewpoints on the application domain from one side and separation of aspects (structuring, functionality, interactivity, distribution, architectural components) from the other side. Facets and aspects are typically specified through different models that must be harmonised and made coherent. Such varieties of models are difficult to handle, to evolve, to maintain and to use. Most design methodologies adopt the master-slave principle in order to handle the coherence of such model assemblies by assigning one model to be the master and mapping the master to slave models. Moreover, these models diagrams are typically not developed from scratch. They are incrementally completed step by step depending on the modelling methodology. Models evolve during development and are not independent, are interrelated, and in most applications also intertwined. Their interrelationships are often not made explicit and impose changes resulting in inconsistencies to other models due to the variety of models.

Therefore, this paper introduces the theory of model suites as a set of models with explicit associations among the models. Model suites are based on explicit controllers for maintenance of coherence, apply application schemata for their explicit maintenance and evolution, use tracers for establishment of their coherence and thus support co-evolution of information system models. The excitability is captured by integrating model suites and MetaCASE formalisms, exploring the (modelling) method engineering and tool generation required for multi-model development.

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  1. J. Whitney Bunting School of Business, Dept. of Information Technology and Marketing, Georgia College and State University, Campus Box 12, Milledgeville, 31061, GA, USA

    Ajantha Dahanayake

  2. Department of Computer Science, Christian Albrechts University Kiel, Olshausenstr. 40, D-24098, Kiel, Germany

    Bernhard Thalheim

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  3. NTNU, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 7030, Trondheim, Norway

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  4. University of Paris, 1 Pantheon Sorbonne, 75005, Paris, France

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  5. Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg, and Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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  6. Aalen University, 73430, Aalen, Germany

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  7. University of Manchester, M13 9PL, Manchester, UK

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Dahanayake, A., Thalheim, B. (2010). Co-evolution of (Information) System Models. In: Bider, I., et al. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling. BPMDS EMMSAD 2010 2010. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 50. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-13051-9_26

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