Bernd Neumayr, Christoph Georg Schütz, Manfred Jeusfeld, Michael Schrefl,
"Dual deep modeling: multi-level modeling with dual potencies and its formalization in F-Logic"
, in Software and Systems Modeling, Vol. 17, Nummer 1, Springer Verlag, Seite(n) 233-268, 2018, ISSN: 1619-1366
Original Titel:
Dual deep modeling: multi-level modeling with dual potencies and its formalization in F-Logic
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Kurzfassung:
An enterprise database contains a global, integrated, and consistent representation of a company?s data. Multi-level modeling facilitates the definition and maintenance of such an integrated conceptual data model in a dynamic environment of changing data requirements of diverse applications. Multi-level models transcend the traditional separation of class and object with clabjects as the central modeling primitive, which allows for a more flexible and natural representation of many real-world use cases. In deep instantiation, the number of instantiation levels of a clabject or property is indicated by a single potency. Dual deep modeling (DDM) differentiates between source potency and target potency of a property or association and supports the flexible instantiation and refinement of the property by statements connecting clabjects at different modeling levels. DDM comes with multiple generalization of clabjects, subsetting/specialization of properties, and multi-level cardinality constraints. Examples are presented using a UML-style notation for DDM together with UML class and object diagrams for the representation of two-level user views derived from the multi-level model. Syntax and semantics of DDM are formalized and implemented in F-Logic, supporting the modeler with integrity checks and rich query facilities.
Forschungs-