...our attempt at integrating terminologies between different disciplines, which look at the problem differently, so some of the terms have different meanings in different disciplines.
...apply the following criteria: scope, technical quality, extensibility, quality of definitions of documentation...metamodeling is not for the faint of heart...if used correctly, its reduces development risk of complex projects by a larger factor than an
...good at abstracting from lower-level details of integration and interoperability, helping with partitioning problems into orthogonal sub-problems of conceptual data, physical data optimization, and control flow, & ideal for complex web services project
A metamodel is a precise definition of the constructs and rules needed for creating semantic models...an attempt at describing the world around us for a particular purpose.
D. Karagiannis, H. Fill, P. Höfferer, and M. Nemetz. Information Systems and e-Business Technologies, volume 5 of Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 10.1007/978-3-540-78942-0_19.(2008)