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Ontology-Based Metamodeling

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Business Information Systems and Technology 4.0

Part of the book series: Studies in Systems, Decision and Control ((SSDC,volume 141))

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Decision makers use models to understand and analyze a situation, to compare alternatives and to find solutions. Additionally, there are systems that support decision makers through data analysis, calculation or simulation. Typically, modeling languages for humans and machine are different from each other. While humans prefer graphical or textual models, machine-interpretable models have to be represented in a formal language. This chapter describes an approach to modeling that is both cognitively adequate for humans and processable by machines. In addition, the approach supports the creation and adaptation of domain-specific modeling languages. A metamodel which is represented as a formal ontology determines the semantics of the modeling language. To create a graphical modeling language, a graphical notation can be added for each class of the ontology. Every time a new modeling element is created during modeling, an instance for the corresponding class is created in the ontology. Thus, models for humans and machines are based on the same internal representation.

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    ADOxx is a commercial product and trademark of BOC AG.

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This research has received funding from the European Community’s Framework Programme for Research and Innovation HORIZON 2020 (ICT-07-2014) under grant agreement number 644690 (CloudSocket).

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    Knut Hinkelmann, Emanuele Laurenzi, Andreas Martin & Barbara Thönssen

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Hinkelmann, K., Laurenzi, E., Martin, A., Thönssen, B. (2018). Ontology-Based Metamodeling. In: Dornberger, R. (eds) Business Information Systems and Technology 4.0. Studies in Systems, Decision and Control, vol 141. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-74322-6_12

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