Using Meta-Model Technologies to Organize Functionalities for Active System Schemes

Meeting on Validation of ENDF/B-VII beta2

Erwan Breton ; Jean Bézivin

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来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

A new information system landscape is emerging that will be moremodel-centered than object-oriented, characterized by manymodels of low granularity and high abstraction, which describe static or dynamic aspects of enterprise information systems. This paper focuses more particularly on the organization of dynamic models that we call here active system frameworks (process models by opposition to product models). They cover, among other concerns, the organization of work, its assignment to potential performers and interactions between them. Agenttechnology is thus concerned in two ways. First, as activeelements, they may intervene in a workflow in the same way as real persons. Second, some of their aspects (organization, processing and interaction) are also shared by other domains. All these schemes could and should be organized in a lattice of metamodels. The point of view taken here is essentially the one of the software engineering community. As we witness a rapid proliferation of product and process meta-models, the question of their overall organization arises. Inspiration may be provided in this field by some results of ontology engineering. We specifically point out at two practical areas of concern. First how to couple the meta-models of process and the meta-models of products. Second how to organize the various process meta-models involved in the design and maintenance of information systems.