Abstract
Enterprises are complex and dynamic organizations that can hardly be understood from a single viewpoint. Enterprise modeling tackles this problem by providing multiple, specialized modeling languages, each designed for representing information about the enterprise from a given viewpoint. The OMiLAB initiative promotes the use of metamodeling to design such domain-specific languages and to provide them by an open repository to the community. In this chapter, we discuss how this metamodeling approach can be combined with the design of integrity constraints that span multiple modeling languages. We propose the services of the ConceptBase system as a constraint checker for modeling languages created by the ADOxx platform.
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The ConceptBase models for ArchiMate were created in 2008 by Sander van Arendonk, Niels Colijn, Dirk Janssen and Jeffrey Kramer as part of an assignment for the method engineering course at Tilburg University. Their models are available under a Creative Commons CC-BY-NC 3.0 license. Special thanks to Wilfrid Utz and David Götzinger from the University of Vienna for their help in getting the coupling between ConceptBase and ADOxx working.
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Jeusfeld, M.A. (2016). SemCheck: Checking Constraints for Multi-perspective Modeling Languages. In: Karagiannis, D., Mayr, H., Mylopoulos, J. (eds) Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-39417-6_2
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