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MERLIN: An Intelligent Tool for Creating Domain Models

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Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS 2020)

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The complexity of modelling languages and the lack of intelligent tool support add unnecessary difficulties to the process of modelling, a process that is in itself already demanding, given the challenges associated to capturing user requirements and abstracting these in the correct way. In the past, the MERODE method has been developed to address the problem of UML’s complexity and lack of formalization. In this paper, we demonstrate how the formalization of a multi-view modelling approach entails the possibility to create smart and user-friendly modelling support.

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    In the remainder of this book we will follow the convention that object types are written in smallcaps and that association names will be underlined.

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    Captures how processes create, read, update or delete data.

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Snoeck, M. (2020). MERLIN: An Intelligent Tool for Creating Domain Models. In: Dalpiaz, F., Zdravkovic, J., Loucopoulos, P. (eds) Research Challenges in Information Science. RCIS 2020. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 385. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-50316-1_37

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