A Fundamental View on the Act of Modeling

This paper is part of an ongoing research effort to better understand the role of models and modeling in the information system development life-cycle. During this life-cycle, several models are produced, ranging from high level sketches, via conceptual models to source code. This paper is part of an ongoing research effort to better understand the act of modeling. We describe a formal framework by which the process of modeling can be regarded as involving the selection of more and more refined interpretations in terms of the underlying meta-model of the modeling language used. The resulting framework will be used to create a laboratory setup in which we can consequently more closely study (and support) modeling processes.

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