By
Brian Henderson-Sellers (presenter)
Owen Eriksson (contents author)
Pär Ågerfalk (contents author)
Greg Walkerden (contents author)
Summary
Contemporary software engineering modelling tends to rely on general-purpose languages, such as the Unified Modeling Language. However, such languages are practice-based and seldom underpinned with a solid theory ? be it mathematical, ontological or concomitant with language use. The future of software modelling deserves a language base that is compatible with these various elements as well as being philosophically coherent.
Keywords
Foundational ontologies. Metamodelling. Conceptual modelling. Modelling languages.