Topological Modeling for Model-Driven Domain Analysis and Software Development: Functions and Architectures

Abstract

There are many ways how to describe semantics. In software development during the so called problem domain analysis mostly informal approaches and languages are used. There are several causes, and one of more important is that the problem domain itself is not well determined. Thus, developers explore the problem domain by parts, at the beginning trying to understand each fragment of the problem domain and only after that trying to join those fragments together in the holistic and more formal representation. Indeed, the question about possibility of formal description of semantics still exists. The important property of diagrams used in software development is that they must provide very precise or even formal sense. In (Diskin, Kadish, Piessens, & ABstrAct