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On Thursday 24 January 2002 08:47 am, Pete Kirkham wrote: > gtn@r... > > >The "domain model" as you put it, is roughly equivalent to a > >vocabulary with an associated set of semantics. So long as you > > agree on the terms, you can communicate, and that is the whole > > point. > > The domain model has no fixed language, only semantics. > > The abstract information model (what we are going to represent X as) > is a viewpoint on this domain model (what we know about X). > > The AIM may be an ontological framework or an EXPRESS or a MOF L1 > model (such as a UML domain model class diagram; UML fudges this a > bit by using the same language for its domain models [which are > abstract subsets of the information in a domain, not models of a > whole domain] and for application constructs). Got it. Thanks for the clarification. It's interesting you mention CASE and STEP. I did some work in that a fair while ago and it seemed like there were few success stories. Seems like you have had one or more?
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