An ontological analysis of the relationship construct in conceptual modeling
ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
GOL: toward an axiomatized upper-level ontology
Proceedings of the international conference on Formal Ontology in Information Systems - Volume 2001
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EKAW '00 Proceedings of the 12th European Workshop on Knowledge Acquisition, Modeling and Management
The Essence of Multilevel Metamodeling
«UML» '01 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on The Unified Modeling Language, Modeling Languages, Concepts, and Tools
Model-Driven Development: A Metamodeling Foundation
IEEE Software
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Model-independent schema translation
The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
On Ontology, ontologies, Conceptualizations, Modeling Languages, and (Meta)Models
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MISTRAL: a language for model transformations in the MOF meta-modeling architecture
MDAFA'03 Proceedings of the 2003 European conference on Model Driven Architecture: foundations and Applications
MoDELS'05 Proceedings of the 8th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
KM3: a DSL for metamodel specification
FMOODS'06 Proceedings of the 8th IFIP WG 6.1 international conference on Formal Methods for Open Object-Based Distributed Systems
MODELS'07 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems
Advanced modelling made simple with the Gmodel metalanguage
Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Model-Driven Interoperability
Bridging metamodels and ontologies in software engineering
Journal of Systems and Software
Random thoughts on multi-level conceptual modelling
The evolution of conceptual modeling
ReuseMe - towards aspect-driven reuse in modelling method development
MODELS'10 Proceedings of the 2010 international conference on Models in software engineering
Joint language and domain engineering
ECMFA'10 Proceedings of the 6th European conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications
On the search for a level-agnostic modelling language
CAiSE'13 Proceedings of the 25th international conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering
Ontological and linguistic metamodelling revisited: A language use approach
Information and Software Technology
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Model Driven Engineering (MDE) is a promising paradigm for software development. It raises the level of abstraction in software development by treating models as primary artifacts. The definition of a metamodel is a recurring task in MDE and requires sound and formal support. The lack of such support causes deficiencies such as conceptual anomalies in the modeling languages. From philosophical point of view metamodels can be seen as metaconceptualizations. Metalanguages have to provide constructs for building ontological theories as a base for modeling languages. This paper describes a new metalanguage derived from the study of Formal Ontology. This metalanguage raises the level of abstraction of metamodels from pure abstract syntax to semantics descriptions based on ontologies. Thus, the language developers can make conscious choices for their modeling concepts and can explicitly define important relations such as instantiation and generalization. With this metalanguage, we aim at a precise conceptual and formal foundation for metamodeling.