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Domain Specific Conceptual Model Engineering
        Joint Keynote of BPMDS and EMMSAD

                              Heinrich C. Mayr

                     Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt
      Universitätsstr. 65–67, 9020 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria
                            heinrich.mayr@aau.at



   Abstract. Models are the fundamental human instruments for manag-
   ing complexity and understanding. As such they play a key role in any
   scientific and engineering discipline as well as in everyday life. Many
   modeling paradigms evolved over time in the various disciplines which
   lead to a huge variety of modeling languages, methods and tools. This in
   particular is true for Informatics, which is a modeling discipline per se,
   and since long tries to systematize the realm of modeling by (1) clarifying
   the hierarchy of model layers like e. g. in MOF (meta object framework),
   (2) introducing ontological commitments into model hierarchies for a bet-
   ter semantical grounding, (3) harmonizing various modeling approaches
   to unified/universal ones, and (4) providing a framework for a system-
   atic domain specific modeling method (DSMM) design where universal
   approaches fail.
   Still, there is much to be done; in particular, to make systematic modeling
   an everyday activity in any domain of Information Systems and Software
   Development. But this requires a methodological modeling framework
   that is both, flexible enough to be applied in diverging fields, and rigid
   enough to pass assessments and certification as is standard practice in
   engineering disciplines.
   The talk will sketch candidate building blocks of such a framework. First,
   by means of some examples, attention will be drawn to what is still going
   wrong in the modeling domain. Based here on and on a taxonomy of
   modeling method characteristics, the practicability and the effectiveness
   of these building blocks will be discussed using Ambient Assistance as
   an example modeling domain.

   Short bio: Heinrich C. Mayr has been a full professor of Informatics
   at Universitt Klagenfurt since 1990, leading the Application Engineering
   Research Group. Until then he was an assistant professor at the Univer-
   sity of Karlsruhe (today: KIT), visiting professor at several universities,
   and CEO of a German software company. His research is documented in
   over 200 publications and includes information system design methodolo-
   gies, requirements and model engineering, and knowledge management.
   He has held, amongst many other functions, that of President of the
   Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). For 6 years he served as Rector of the
   University. Currently he is editor in chief of the “Lecture Notes in In-
   formatics”, chairman of the ER steering committee, chairperson of the
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    council of the Software Internet Cluster SIC, and Member of the TC
    Wirtschaftsinformatik of the German Accreditation Organisation ASIIN.

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