computer science editors and Mylopoulos, Jeusfeld, Jarke, Metamodeling for Method edited by Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Engineering Matthias Jarke, and John Mylopoulos This text is a guide to the foundations of method engineering, a developing field concerned with the definition of techniques for designing software systems. The approach is based on metamodeling, the construction of a model about a collection of other models. The book applies the metamodeling approach in five case studies, each describ- ing a solution to a problem in a specific domain. Suitable for classroom use, the book is also useful as a reference for practitioners. Engineering Metamodeling for Method The book first presents the theoretical basis of metamodeling for method engineering, discussing information Metamodeling for Method modeling, the potential of metamodeling for software systems development, and the introduction of the metamodeling tool ConceptBase. The second, and larger, portion of the book reports on applications of the metamodeling approach to method engineering. These detailed case studies range from telecommunication service specification, hypermedia design, and data warehousing to cooperative requirements engineering, chemical device modeling, and design of new Engineering abstraction principles of modeling languages. Although these chapters can stand alone as case studies, they also relate to the earlier theoretical chapters. The metamodeling approach described in the book is based on the Telos metamodel- ing language implemented by the ConceptBase system. An accompanying CD-ROM contains the ConceptBase system and a large collection of Telos metamodels discussed in the text. The CD-ROM enables readers to start directly with 2021 Open-access Edition method engineering, from small method chunks up to complete method definitions. The complete definition of Ed Yourdon’s structured analysis method is included as an instructional example. edited by Manfred A. Jeusfeld, MANFRED JEUSFELD IS ASSISTANT PROFESSOR OF INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND MANAGEMENT, TILBURG UNIVERSITY, THE MD DALIM #1021972 4/21/09 NETHERLANDS. MATTHIAS JARKE IS EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF THE FRAUNHOFER INSTITUTE OF APPLIED IT, BONN, GERMANY. Matthias Jarke, and JOHN MYLOPOULOS IS PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF COMPUTER SCIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO AND DISTIN- John Mylopoulos GUISHED PROFESSOR IN THE DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATION ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER SCIENCE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO. Cooperative Information Systems series “With the increased complexity of cooperative information systems Contributors that organizations and society require today, the role played by BIRGIT BAYER WOLFGANG NEJDL methods that support their development becomes crucial. 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T57.7.M48 2009 003 0.3—dc22 2008047203 10987654321 Contents Series Foreword vii Introduction xi 1 A Sophisticate’s Guide to Information Modeling 1 Alex Borgida and John Mylopoulos 2 Metamodeling 43 Matthias Jarke, Ralf Klamma, and Kalle Lyytinen 3 Metamodeling and Method Engineering with ConceptBase 89 Manfred A. Jeusfeld 4 Conceptual Modeling in Telecommunications Service Design 169 Armin Eberlein 5 Metadata for Hypermedia Textbooks: From RDF to O-Telos and Back 233 Martin Wolpers and Wolfgang Nejdl 6 Monitoring Requirements Development with Goals 257 William N. Robinson 7 Definition of Semantic Abstraction Principles 295 Mohamed Dahchour and Alain Pirotte 8 Metadatabase Design for Data Warehouses 329 Christoph Quix 9 A Conceptual Information Model for the Chemical Process Design Lifecycle 357 Birgit Bayer and Wolfgang Marquardt List of Contributors 383 Index 387 Online resources for the 2021 Open-Access Edition The ConceptBase system used as a tool for exercises in this book can be downloaded from http://conceptbase.cc under a BSD-style open-source license. Sources for examples for some of the chapters and other resources such as slides for lectures on metamodeling can be obtained from http://conceptbase.cc/CB-Resources.html This replaces the content of the CD-ROM that was accompanying the original 2009 book edition of the textbook. Series Foreword The traditional view of information systems as tailor-made, cost-intensive database applications is changing rapidly. The change is fueled partly by a maturing software industry, which is making greater use of o¤-the-shelf generic components and stan- dard software solutions, and partly by the onslaught of the information revolution. In turn, this change has resulted in a new set of demands for information services that are homogeneous in their presentation and interaction patterns, open in their software architecture, and global in their scope. The demands have come mostly from application domains such as e-commerce and banking, manufacturing (includ- ing the software industry itself ), training, education, and environmental manage- ment, to mention just a few. Future information systems will have to support smooth interaction with a large variety of independent multivendor data sources and legacy applications, running on heterogeneous platforms and distributed information networks. Metadata will play a crucial role in describing the contents of such data sources and in facilitating their integration. As well, a greater variety of community-oriented interaction patterns will have to be supported by next-generation information systems. Such interactions may involve navigation, querying, and retrieval, and will have to be combined with personalized notification, annotation, and profiling mechanisms. Such interactions will also have to be intelligently interfaced with application software, and will need to be dynami- cally integrated into customized and highly connected cooperative environments. Morever, the massive investments in information resources, by governments and businesses alike, call for specific measures that ensure security, privacy, and accuracy of their contents. All these are challenges for the next generation of information systems. We call such systems cooperative information systems, and they