Masterstudium Business Informatics - Fakultät für Informatik, TU Wien

• Introduction to model engineering: Principles and goals; basic architecture of Model
Engineering (ME); notions and denitions; preliminaries and results; approaches;
tool support
• Metamodeling: Meta languages; metamodeling languages; metamodeling tools;
language architecture of UML; language extension mechanisms (UML Proles);
domain-specic modeling languages; model serialization and persistence (XMI)
• Object constraint language: Formal specication languages; OCL language constructs;
OCL libraries and tool support; OCL as query language and as constraint
language; design by contract with OCL
• Model transformation: Model transformation patterns; model transformation languages;
graph transformations; transformation standard
• Code generation: Descriptive vs. constructive models; platform specic code generation;
template languages; design patterns for code generation
• Dening concrete syntax: Textual modeling language; graphical modeling language
• Model evolution: Notions and denitions; metamodel evolution and model coevolution;
metamodel evolution and transformation co-evolution; parallel model
evolution
Expected Prerequisites:
The contents of the bachelor modules INT/PRO - Programmkonstruktion, INT/SEP -
Software Engineering und Projektmanagement , and WIN/MOD - Modellierung.
Teaching and Learning Methods and Adequate Assessment of Performance: The module
is organized along lectures, labs, and practical exercises in small groups.
Courses of Module:
6.0/4.0 VU Model Engineering
Innovation Implementation
ECTS-Credits: 6.0
Summary: This is the third module out of four. It focuses on the implementation of
innovations. It comprises practical aspects such as legal, nancial, and social issues,
which are complementary to and often critical for the innovation process.
Learning Outcomes:
Knowledge:
• Funding aspects of innovation
• Legal and nancial issues of company creation
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