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Abstract
The problem of managing inconsistencies in and between models is
omnipresent in software engineering. Over the years many different inconsistency
management approaches have been proposed by the research community.
Because of the large diversity of backgrounds from which these approaches originate,
it is difficult to pinpoint what they have in common and what not. As a
result, researchers encounter difficulties when they want to position and compare
their work with existing state-of-the-art, or when they collaborate on or combine
different approaches. Also, end-users have a hard time to make an informed decision
when selecting the most appropriate approaches. To address these problems,
we propose a unifying conceptual framework of definitions and terminology, independent
of any concrete inconsistency management approach or (modelling)
language. This reference framework allows to gain a common understanding of
what inconsistency management involves, what an inconsistency really means,
and what the possible causes of an inconsistency can be. We demonstrate the
genericity and usefulness of the framework by providing concrete instantiations
of it to four different inconsistency management approaches.
Original language | English |
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Publication status | Published - 2009 |
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