Modeling Modeling

Abstract. Model-driven engineering and model-based approaches have permeated all branches of software engineering; to the point that it seems that we are using models, as Molière’s Monsieur Jourdain was using prose, without knowing it. At the heart of modeling, there is a relation that we establish to represent something by something else. In this paper we review various definitions of models and relations between them. Then, we define a canonical set of relations that can be used to express various kinds of representation relations and we propose a graphical concrete syntax to represent these relations. Hence, this paper is a contribution towards a theory of modeling.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2009
• Where: MODELS
• Authors: Pierre-Alain Muller, Frédéric Fondement, Benoit Baudry
• Keywords: Model-based Approaches, Model-driven Engineering, MODELS 2009, Molière’s Monsieur Jourdain, Natural Language Processing