Method engineering (ME) is commonly carried out in an intuitive and improvising fashion in
practice. This is largely due to the lack of explicit methodical support. The literature does …

One of the most important challenges that software engineers (designers, developers) still
have to face in their everyday work is the evolution of working database systems. As a step …

Standard methods as such are not normally used for information system development. The
particular circumstances of each project make it necessary to adapt the methods to deal with …

The success of an organization depends on its ability to cooperate internally and externally
in its business processes. Cooperation processes, both within and between organizations …

A clear understanding of the dynamic semantics of UML State Machines is essential for a
large and varied audience such as final users of the language, CASE tool builders or …

In this paper we propose a meta-modelling technique for hel** in the construction of
map**s which make feasible the interoperability demanded between different modelling …

This paper presents an architecture for managing database evolution when all the
components of the database (conceptual schema, logical schema and extension) are …

In this paper we show a process for defining a translation between two different modeling
languages that allows to map a model expressed in a modeling language into a model …

This paper is intended to present the Noesis approach to the representation of behavioural
features from a meta–modelling perspective. This approach is based on two main …

State Machines is one of the artifacts used in the UML in order to represent dynamic
behaviour. The need for a precise definition of the several artifacts of the UML (in particular …