Advancing Multi-Modelling in MDE for Integrated Domain and Business Process Modelling.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Verbruggen, Charlotte.

Series:

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing Series

Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing Series ; v.576

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer, 2026.

Summary:

This dissertation addresses the integration of the domain modeling approach, Merode, with the process modeling language BPMN, focusing on three key quality dimensions: abstract syntax, concrete syntax, and semantics.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Acknowledgements

Committee

Promoter

Doctoral Committee

Chair

Contents

I Prologue

1 Introduction

1.1 Model-Driven Engineering

1.2 General problem

1.3 Research Methodology

1.4 Dissertation structure

II Researching the Problem's Relevance

2 Practitioners' experiences with model-driven engineering: a meta-review

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Related Research

2.2.1 Identified Surveys on UML

2.2.2 Identified Surveys on Modelling (not UML)

2.2.3 Research on MDE

2.2.4 Summary of the Related Research

2.3 Methodology

2.3.1 Defining Research Questions

2.3.2 Search Strategy for Finding Relevant Papers

2.3.3 Inclusion and Exclusion Criteria

2.3.4 Study Selection Procedure

2.3.5 Quality Criteria

2.4 Results

2.4.1 RQ1 - For which aspects (type of activities) of software development do practitioners use modelling languages?

2.4.2 RQ2 - Which other modelling languages are in use next to BPMN and UML, and how often are they used?

2.4.3 RQ3 - Which problems/difficulties/requirements do practitioners have with MDE?

2.4.4 RQ4 - What are the benefits of MDE according to the practitioners?

2.5 Discussion

2.5.1 Related Research versus Results

2.5.2 Addressing the challenges

2.5.3 Threats to Validity

2.6 Conclusion

2.7 Future Work

3 Case studies with students on their understanding of multi-perspective modelling

3.1 Introduction

3.2 Related Work

3.3 Pilot experiment on students' understanding of multi-perspective modelling

3.3.1 Context

3.3.2 Methodology

3.3.3 Results

3.3.4 Discussion

3.3.5 Conclusion

3.4 Follow-up Study: Evaluation of Students' Understanding of Modelling in a Multi-Perspective Context

3.4.1 Methodology

3.4.2 Results

3.4.3 Discussion

3.4.4 Conclusion.

III Design and Demonstration of the Integration of MERODE and BPMN

4 MERODExBPMN - A Meta-model for Integrated Domain and Process Modelling

4.1 Introduction

4.2 Related Work

4.3 Design Science Research Methodology

4.4 Knowledge Base: Merode and BPMN Meta-models &amp

Tools

4.4.1 Merode Approach and Meta-model

4.4.2 The BPMN Meta-model

4.4.3 Existing Tools

4.5 Results: Meta-model integration and proof of concept

4.5.1 RG1 - Conceptualization: MERODExBPMN meta-model

4.5.2 RG2 - PoC Implementation

4.5.3 RG3 - Evaluation of the meta-model

4.6 Discussion

4.7 Conclusion and Future Work

5 Adapting the Information System Service Layer of Merode for code generation

5.1 Introduction

5.2 Identifying the gaps in the Merode approach for the integration with BPMN

5.3 Guidelines for defining Consistent Composed Events

5.3.1 Guidelines for 1 master object type with one dependent object type

5.3.2 Guidelines for n master object types with one (shared) dependent object type

5.4 Adding attributes

5.4.1 Comparing the Merode approach with the OO-method

5.4.2 Enhancing the Merode approach with elements from the OO-method

5.5 Integration with BPMN process models

5.6 Development of a Prototype modeler

5.7 Conclusion

6 iDOCEM - Defining a Common Terminology for Object-Centric Event Logging and Data-Centric Process Modelling

6.1 Introduction

6.2 Related Work

6.2.1 Artefact-centric Process Modelling

6.2.2 Aligning Data and Process Modelling

6.2.3 Object-centric Logging Formats

6.2.4 Discovery of Artefact-centric processes

6.2.5 Research Gap

6.3 Methodology

6.4 Background and Running Example

6.4.1 Merode Model

6.4.2 DOCEL format

6.4.3 Misalignment Issues

6.5 iDOCEM - Integrated Data- &amp

Object-Centric Event Meta-model.

6.6 Aligning the Terminology of Existing Logging Formats

6.7 Extracting a DOCEL Log from a Merode Application

6.7.1 Extracted DOCEL Log for Business Events

6.7.2 Logging at Different Granularity Levels

6.8 Discussion

6.8.1 Addressing the Five Issues

6.8.2 Comparison to Related Work

6.8.3 Contribution of iDOCEM for Data-Aware Process Modelling with Merode

6.9 Limitations and Future Work

6.9.1 Conclusion

IV Evaluation

7 TEC-MAP: a taxonomy of evaluation criteria and its application to the multi-modelling of data and processes

7.1 Introduction

7.2 Inventory of Evaluation Frameworks

7.2.1 Systematic Literature Review

7.2.2 General Evaluation Frameworks

7.2.3 Frameworks for data-aware process modelling approaches

7.2.4 Other related work

7.3 Methodology

7.3.1 Construction of the taxonomy

7.3.2 Analysis of the criteria

7.4 Results

7.4.1 The Phase Dimension

7.4.2 The Viewpoint Dimension

7.4.3 The Pillar Dimension

7.4.4 Final taxonomy

7.5 Applications

7.5.1 General guidelines

7.5.2 Example of a TEC-MAP evaluation: identifying potential improvements of the Merode approach

7.5.3 Example of a TEC-MAP evaluation: comparing the Merode approach to the BAUML and 4EM approaches

7.5.4 Evaluation of the adaption proposed in Part III

7.6 Discussion

7.7 Conclusion

8 A Study on Evaluating the Usability of a Multi-Modelling Tool

8.1 Introduction

8.2 Related Research

8.3 Methodology

8.3.1 Selection of UI design principles

8.3.2 UI design

8.3.3 Experiment Setup

8.4 Results

8.4.1 Results for RQ1

8.4.2 Results for RQ2

8.4.3 Results for RQ3

8.5 Discussion

8.6 Conclusion

V Epilogue

Conclusions &amp

Future work

9.1 Summary &amp

Conclusions.

9.2 Lessons learned for adapting multi-perspective modelling approaches for code generation

9.3 Limitations

9.4 Future work

Appendix A. Case Description and Model Solution for the Experiment in Section 3.3

Appendix B. Complete error typology for Section 3.4

Appendix C. Case Description for the Experiment in Section 3.4

List of Figures

List of Tables

Bibliography

Bibliography.

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ISBN:

3-032-13876-0

OCLC:

1591770253