RELATING SYSTEM DYNAMICS AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA MODELS - A Metamodel based Language Mapping

Lars Burmester, Matthias Goeken

2008

Abstract

System Dynamics (SD) is an approach with a long tradition used for modelling and simulation of complex system. Early, a conceptual modelling language was applied to bridge the ‘linguistic gap’ between the natural language of the model users and the targeted simulation language. Despite the maturity of the modelling approach, up to today no linguistic metamodel exists for the used language, resulting in non complying language extensions and the lack of reasonable combination with other modelling languages, e.g. for use in Business Intelligence (BI) systems. This paper aims at the development of a linguistic metamodel of the SD modelling language. Further, by relating the elaborated SD metamodel with multidimensional data modelling, an approach for positioning SD in a modern BI context is shown.

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Burmester L. and Goeken M. (2008). RELATING SYSTEM DYNAMICS AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA MODELS - A Metamodel based Language Mapping . In Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-8111-38-8, pages 295-299. DOI: 10.5220/0001707802950299


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@conference{iceis08,
author={Lars Burmester and Matthias Goeken},
title={RELATING SYSTEM DYNAMICS AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA MODELS - A Metamodel based Language Mapping},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,},
year={2008},
pages={295-299},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0001707802950299},
isbn={978-989-8111-38-8},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 3: ICEIS,
TI - RELATING SYSTEM DYNAMICS AND MULTIDIMENSIONAL DATA MODELS - A Metamodel based Language Mapping
SN - 978-989-8111-38-8
AU - Burmester L.
AU - Goeken M.
PY - 2008
SP - 295
EP - 299
DO - 10.5220/0001707802950299