Using Roles to Characterize Model Families
page 179-195. Kluwer Academic Publisher, (2003)Abstract
The development of reusable artifacts often one to characterize families of problems and their solutions. This paper presents a metamodeling approach to expressing structural and behavioral properties of a familiy of solutions. The properties are expressed in terms of roles that can be realized by model elements. A model realizes a role model if the model elements associated with the roles posses the properties defined by their roles. A role model is essentially a characterization of a family of models.