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Modelling (and hence metamodelling as a special kind of modelling) focusses on linking symbolic representations to elements within a specific part of reality. For most software engineering models, we delimit this reality as the ‘system under study’ or SUS for short, while recognising that, while Hesse (2006) argues against its use, here we use the word system in a generic sense to mean the ‘original’ or ‘target’ of our modelling exercise. This target may be (a part of) reality or an artificial system (e.g. conceptual or design models)
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A good example of this is the talking drums of Africa (e.g. Clarke 1934).
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Hesse (2008) also notes the explicit representation of the human ‘actor’ in the FRISCO framework. Here, however, we imply the existence of a person by use of the term cognitive model (Hoppenbrouwers 2011).
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Layer and level are both used, as synonyms, in OMG documents. We have mainly used ‘layer’ here but in some cases, the use of level is retained.
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It could be argued that domain is not the best term but we retain it here since this is the term used in ISO standards and other relevant literature. Note that it also adds ambiguity to the use of the word domain in Fig. 1.1 and, later, in our discussion of domain-specific modelling languages—a typical problem when subdisciplines collide.
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Henderson-Sellers, B. (2012). Introduction. In: On the Mathematics of Modelling, Metamodelling, Ontologies and Modelling Languages. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-29825-7_1
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