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Automated, traceable, and interactive domain modelling

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MODELS '22: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: Companion Proceedings

Pages 217 - 220

https://doi.org/10.1145/3550356.3552372

Published: 09 November 2022 Publication History

Abstract

In domain modelling, practitioners manually extract analyzable and more concise domain models from problem descriptions which express requirements in natural language. With automated domain modelling support using existing approaches, some challenges remain unaddressed - inadequate accuracy of extracted models, no support for traceability of modelling decisions, and no facility for system-modeller interactions. To address these challenges and better support practitioners, we present our bot-assisted solution. Furthermore, we evaluate the effectiveness of our solution and find promising results which warrant further research in this direction.

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https://doi.org/10.1109/MODELS-C59198.2023.00047

Index Terms

Automated, traceable, and interactive domain modelling
1. Computing methodologies
  1. Artificial intelligence
    1. Natural language processing
      1. Information extraction
  2. Machine learning
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Requirements analysis

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MODELS '22: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems: Companion Proceedings

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ISBN:9781450394673

DOI:10.1145/3550356

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de Biase MBernardi SMarrone SMerseguer JPalladino A(2024)Completion of SysML state machines from Given–When–Then requirementsSoftware and Systems Modeling (SoSyM)10.1007/s10270-024-01228-323:6(1455-1491)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s10270-024-01228-3
Asaad C(2023)Towards Leveraging Artificial Intelligence for NoSQL Data Modeling, Querying and Quality Characterization2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Companion (MODELS-C)10.1109/MODELS-C59198.2023.00047(192-198)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2023
https://doi.org/10.1109/MODELS-C59198.2023.00047

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