Reuse of conceptual models in small and medium size companies by means of adaptive component-based reference modelling (RefMod06)

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The early phases in software engineering processes are particularly important since mistakes made in these phases frequently result in enormous additional project costs. Reference models facilitate the conceptual design of information systems and help small and medium size software companies to design their software, especially when additional components for standard software or individual software have to be deployed. The objective of the project "RefMod 06" was to develop a repository-based reference modeling tool. The repository provides existing reference models of a domain that can be reused and extended by software companies. Existing reference modeling variants can be easily selected. Also additional variants of a reference model can be defined. The underlying modeling technique considers both the project-specific composition and the adaption of conceptual model components. Any customization affects models as well as meta-models, since alternative perspectives on models are derived by including or disregarding parts of conceptual models. Key performance indicators provide for an efficient monitoring of the software. The process of developing software from conceptual models is accelerated by utilizing code generators.