Many hypermedia models have been proposed, including those specifically developed to model navigational aspects of web sites. But few hypermedia systems have been implemented based on metamodelling principles familiar to the database community. Often there is no clear separation between conceptual and technical issues in the models and their implementations are not based on an explicit represen...

The process of specifying an embedded system involves capturing complex interrelationships between the hardware domain, the software domain, and the engineering domain used to describe the environment in which the system will be embedded. Developers increasingly turn to domain-specific modeling techniques to manage this complexity, through such approaches as Model Integrated Computing and Model...

Based on users’ experiences of Version 1.3 of the Unified Modeling Language (UML) of the Object Management Group (OMG), a Request For Information in 1999 elicited several responses which were asked to identify “problems” but not to offer any solutions. One of these responses is examined for “problems” relating to the UML metamodel and here some solutions to the problems identified there are pro...

There is considerable interest in developing distributed information systems on top of legacy systems. Over the last two decades, many issues and solutions have been brought forward pertaining to issues of integration, e.g., schema integration, schema mapping. We have developed a schema mapping framework that features domain-specific metamodels, metamodel-driven schema translation, and semiauto...

We employ UML generalization features in order to describe multi-level metamodels and their connections. The basic idea is to represent several metamodel levels in one UML and OCLmodel and to connect the metamodels with (what we call) a superstructure. The advantage of having various levels in one model lies in the uniform handling of all levels and in the availability of OCL for constraining m...