meta-modeling
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11 sectionsContents
- Overview
- Topics
- Definition
- Metadata modeling
- Model transformations
- Relationship to ontologies
- Types of metamodels
- Zoos of metamodels
- See also
- References
- Further reading
thumb|320px|Example of a Geologic map information meta-model, with four types of meta-objects, and their self-references.
A metamodel is a model of a model, and metamodeling is the process of generating such metamodels. Thus metamodeling or meta-modeling is the analysis, construction, and development of the frames, rules, constraints, models, and theories applicable and useful for modeling a predefined class of problems. As its name implies, this concept applies the notions of meta- and modeling in software engineering and systems engineering. Metamodels are of many types and have diverse applications.