A Meta-Model Based Approach for Definition of a Multi-Formalism Modeling Framework

Abstract

Abstract-Many software tools and environments are developed for modeling discrete-event systems. Although, most of the existing tool are proposed for modeling with one or a few modeling languages. In this paper, we propose a meta-modeling approach for definition of a multi-formalism modeling framework for Petri nets and related formal modeling languages. The proposed framework and the related software tool facilitate the inclusion of formalisms in the framework in a unified manner. The proposed meta-modeling structure is designed in four layers such that the most abstract layer as the meta-formalism and the least abstract layer as the concrete model. The basic concepts of the meta-modeling structure and some examples of formalisms are presented based on the proposed structure. We explain the techniques and the architecture of the implemented tool based on the proposed meta-modeling structure for the framework.

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“…The main approach in literature for the definition of custom models and modeling formalisms is based on metamodel-ing (Bézivin (2005); Van Gigch (1991); Jeusfeld et al (2009)), a consolidated conceptual tool that has been successfully exploited in several cases (e.g. Model Driven Engineering (Poole (2001)), software engineering (Group (2010)) and multiformalism modeling ; Gholizadeh and Azgomi (2010); de Lara and Vangheluwe (2002); Iacono et al (2012))).…”