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The Design and Engineering Method for Organisations (DEMO) is the principal methodology in Enterprise Engineering (EE). The Design and Engineering Method for Organisations Specification Language (DEMOSL) states the rules, legends, and metamodel of DEMO. Therefore, any DEMO model must comply with this specification. Moreover, to enable automation of the DEMO model validation, we need a metamodel that can accurately represent DEMO models. With DEMOSL as the appointed specification language for DEMO, with automation as target, we need to validate the fitness of DEMOSL for modelling DEMO.
Our findings provide insight into the amount of changes and the complexity and direction of change to complete the metamodel and make it usable for automation. We found that some incomplete, inconsistent or inadequate specifications in DEMOSL hinder its use as a prescriptive metamodel. We describe these limitations in DEMOSL as a whole and in the separate Construction Model (CM), Process Model (PM), Action Model (AM) and Fact Model (FM).
Finally, we conclude that the metamodel needs improvement to be able to model all allowed DEMO models.
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Mulder, M.A.T. (2019). Validating the DEMO Specification Language. In: Aveiro, D., Guizzardi, G., Guerreiro, S., Guédria, W. (eds) Advances in Enterprise Engineering XII. EEWC 2018. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 334. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-06097-8_8
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