The sheer complexity of software systems nowadays makes modeling artifacts pervasive throughout the development process, be it use requirements, analysis, design, or development. Whether models are used for communication or prescriptive purposes, their syntax and pragmatics afect usability and represent contributory factors concerning the accidental complexity. The diversity of modeling notations and approaches permits classifying them according to diferent taxonomies. General-purpose and domain-specific modeling languages can be created with diferent intended scopes, although all of them can make use of graphical, textual, maps, matrices, tables, and combinations regarding its concrete syntax. These representations have the undoubted advantage of capturing and increasing understanding of complex software systems and better grasping the rationale behind them. In essence, a visual modeling language creates a joint base for the modeler by improving their communication and lays a solid foundation for the implementation.
Program Committee
Luca Berardinelli Paolo Bottoni Alessio Bucaioni Federico Ciccozzi Benoit Combemale Juan De Lara Davide Di Ruscio Steven Kelly Dimitris Kovolos Sebastien Mosser Nikolaus Regnat Maria Teresa Rossi Matthias Tichy Hans Vangheluwe Manuel Wimmer University of L’Aquila, Italy Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy University of L’Aquila, Italy Metacase, Finland