Diversity is prevalent in modern software systems to facilitate adapting the software to
customer requirements or the execution environment. Diversity has an impact on all phases …

Blended modeling aims to improve the user experience of modeling activities by prioritizing
the seamless interaction with models through multiple notations over the consistency of the …

Requirements need to be validated at the early phase of the software development to avoid
errors such as inconsistency, incompleteness and incorrectness. Drawn from this argument …

This book aims to synthesize different directions in knowledge studies into a unified theory of
knowledge and knowledge processes. It explicates important relations between knowledge …

During the development of large software-intensive systems, developers use several
modeling languages and tools to describe a system from different viewpoints. Model-driven …

We present a novel technique that automatically alerts authors of requirements to the
presence of potentially dangerous ambiguities. We first establish the notion of nocuous …

If a modeling task is distributed, it will frequently be necessary to merge models developed
by different team members. Existing approaches to model merging make assumptions about …

With the emergence of model-driven engineering (MDE), software models are considered as
central artifacts in the software engineering process, going beyond their traditional use as …

The artefacts used in Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) evolve as a matter of course: models
are modified and updated as part of the engineering process; metamodels change as a …

The complexity of modern software-intensive systems and the need for flexibility in their
development process forces developers to collaborate using the most appropriate language …