Metamodeling themes are appearing in a number of application areas (e.g., UML, XML, E-Commerce, etc.). Its foundations, however, can be traced back to the ancient world. Fundamental questions of modeling were already discussed by Plato and Aristotle, later refined by mathematicians like Frege and finally brought into connection with meta levels by Russell. The absence of a well defined description hierarchy may lead to paradoxes and should, therefore, best be avoided.
During the active time of this department our research activities focus on the application of known but also novel metamodeling techniques, in particular in conjunction with the definition and use of the UML. Furthermore, we describe and develop architectures on the basis of a hierarchy of stepwise refined architectural descriptions with a vision of automated software development in the spirit of the MDA (Model Driven Architecture) approach. Our theses section gives an overview of finished theses.
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Prof. Dr. Thomas Kühne (Assistant
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Prof. Dr. Martin Girschick now Professor für Software Engineering an der Hochschule Darmstadt Publikationen |