The main drawback of existing software artifact management systems is the lack of
automatic or semi-automatic traceability link generation and maintenance. We have …

The development of complex software systems is a complex and lengthy activity that
involves the participation and collaboration of many stakeholders (eg customers, users …

Nowadays, large-scale industrial software systems may involve hundreds of developers
working on hundreds of different but related models representing parts of the same system …

Consistency management, the ability to detect, diagnose and handle inconsistencies, is
crucial during the development process in Model-driven Engineering (MDE). As the …

Software engineering standards determine practices that" compliant" software processes
shall follow. Standards generally define practices in terms of constraints that must hold for …

Abstract Domain-specific languages (DSLs) provide abstractions and notations for better
understanding and easier modeling of applications in a special domain. Current …

Abstract Model management is a central activity in Software Engineering. The most
challenging aspect of model management is to keep inter-related models consistent with …

Abstract Model-driven engineering (MDE) is an approach to software development where
the primary focus is on models, as opposed to source code. Models are built representing …

A crucial issue in system architecting is the need to study systems from different viewpoints.
These viewpoints are defined by a variety of factors, including the concerns of interest, level …

As the standard for object-oriented analysis and design, the UML (Unified Modeling
Language) metamodel, as well as contemporary CASE (Computer-Aided Software …