This paper presents a modeling technique that combines process-oriented modeling with information-oriented modeling. The modeling technique is well suited for modeling distributed systems, especially information systems. It is backed by a Petri net formalism (called FSNets) that uses feature structures as tokens as well as to describe transition rules. Along with the formal definition we presen...

Dimensional modeling is a common modeling technique in data warehousing. It reflects a simple logical view of a data warehouse system. It can be easily mapped to a physical design. Traditional dimensional modeling is data-oriented and semantically informal. From a software engineering perspective, the informal notations and data-oriented feature are insufficient to tackle the complexity of larg...

Most object-oriented methodologies assign to instance models a minor role, using them to depict behavior scenarios and to show examples. For a large number of applications, among which enterprise models represent an outstanding example, traditional class-based models are not sufficient as tools. An enhanced object-oriented modeling methodology has to be devised in order to face the problems tha...

Making graphical-object modeling the task of creating graphical objects easier is one of the most important challenges facing the CAD and computer graphics community. To make the modeling task easier, many researchers have focused on object-oriented techniques, and over the last decade or so, several object-oriented graphics paradigms have been examined, with the goal of bringing established be...

Context: The integration of aspect oriented modeling approaches with model‐driven engineering process achieved through their direct transformation to aspect‐oriented code is expected to enhance the software development from many perspectives. However, since no aspect modeling technique has been adopted as the standard while the code generation has to be fully dependent on the input model, it be...

IntroductIon Modeling techniques play an important role in the development of database applications. Well-known entity-relationship modeling and its extensions have become a widely-accepted approach for relational database conceptual design. An object-oriented approach has brought a new view of conceptual modeling. A class as a fundamental concept of the object-oriented approach encapsulates bo...

IntroductIon Modeling techniques play an important role in the development of database applications. Well-known entity-relationship modeling and its extensions have become a widely-accepted approach for relational database conceptual design. An object-oriented approach has brought a new view of conceptual modeling. A class as a fundamental concept of the object-oriented approach encapsulates bo...

In recent years, formal methods have been used as an important tool for performance evaluation and verification of a wide range of systems. In the view points of engineers and practitioners, however, there are still some major difficulties in using formal methods. In this paper, we introduce a new formal modeling language to fill the gaps between object-oriented programming languages (OOPLs) us...