Relating System Dynamics and Multidimensional Data Models - A Metamodel based Language Mapping

System Dynamics (SD) is an approach with a long tradition used for modelling and simulation of complex system. Early, a conceptual modelling language was applied to bridge the ‘linguistic gap’ between the natural language of the model users and the targeted simulation language. Despite the maturity of the modelling approach, up to today no linguistic metamodel exists for the used language, resulting in non complying language extensions and the lack of reasonable combination with other modelling languages, e.g. for use in Business Intelligence (BI) systems. This paper aims at the development of a linguistic metamodel of the SD modelling language. Further, by relating the elaborated SD metamodel with multidimensional data modelling, an approach for positioning SD in a modern BI context is shown.