Power-Modelling Toward a More Versatile Approach to Creating and Using Conceptual Models

Ulrich Frank

2014

Abstract

The prospects of conceptual modelling are widely undisputed. Nevertheless the current practice of conceptual modelling remains unsatisfactory. Usually, modelling languages offer primitive concepts only—with respective effects on productivity and model quality. The creation of models is restricted to early phases of system life-cycle. Hence, the benefits of models in later phases are ignored. Furthermore, the creation and use of conceptual models is still restricted to experts only. In this paper, the outline of a new modelling paradigm, referred to as power-modelling, is presented. It builds on the potential of domain-specific modelling languages (DSML), application frameworks and reference models. It regards models as the primary medium to perceive, interact with and change systems and the environment they are supposed to operate in during the entire system life-cycle. For this purpose, power-modelling is built on an extensible set of multi-level DSML that fit the conceptual perspectives of a wide range of prospective users and a common representation of models and code, which allows overcoming the notorious problem of synchronizing models and code.

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Frank U. (2014). Power-Modelling Toward a More Versatile Approach to Creating and Using Conceptual Models . In Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD, ISBN 978-989-758-032-1, pages 9-19. DOI: 10.5220/0005423800090019


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@conference{bmsd14,
author={Ulrich Frank},
title={Power-Modelling Toward a More Versatile Approach to Creating and Using Conceptual Models},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD,},
year={2014},
pages={9-19},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005423800090019},
isbn={978-989-758-032-1},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on Business Modeling and Software Design - Volume 1: BMSD,
TI - Power-Modelling Toward a More Versatile Approach to Creating and Using Conceptual Models
SN - 978-989-758-032-1
AU - Frank U.
PY - 2014
SP - 9
EP - 19
DO - 10.5220/0005423800090019