Publications

Sections are sorted alphabetically (after the first three) and publications are sorted by year within sections. Note that this is an incomplete record; there are many more publications on multi-level modelling. Please feel free to add any.

Dagstuhl Research Report

• Multi-Level Modelling (Dagstuhl Seminar 17492) Report

Theme and Special Issues

• SoSyM and EMISAJ have published two theme issues and one special issue on Multi-Level Modeling respectively.

Workshop Proceedings

• MULTI 2024 Workshop Proceedings, 2024 ACM/IEEE 27th MODELS Companion Proceedings
• MULTI 2023 Workshop Proceedings, 2023 ACM/IEEE 26th MODELS Companion Proceedings
• MULTI 2022 Workshop Proceedings, 2022 ACM/IEEE 25th MODELS Companion Proceedings
• MULTI 2021 Workshop Proceedings, 2021 ACM/IEEE 24th MODELS Companion Proceedings
• MULTI 2020 Workshop Proceedings, 2020 ACM/IEEE 23rd MODELS Companion Proceedings
• MULTI 2019 Workshop Proceedings, 2019 ACM/IEEE 22nd MODELS Companion Proceedings
• MULTI 2018 Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 2245 of CEUR
• MULTI 2017 Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 2019 of CEUR
• MULTI 2016 Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1722 of CEUR
• MULTI 2015 Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1505 of CEUR
• MULTI 2014 Workshop Proceedings, Vol. 1286 of CEUR

Applications of Deep Modelling

• Colin Atkinson, Thomas Kühne
  Taming the Complexity of Digital Twins
  IEEE Software, Vol. 39, Issue 2, pages 27-32

• Alessandro Rossini, Juan de Lara, Esther Guerra, Nikolay Nikolov
  A comparison of two-level and multi-level modelling for cloud-based applications
  ECMFA'2015, (L'Aquila) LNCS 9153 (Springer). pp.:18-32. 2015.

Industry Applications

• Muzaffar Igamberdiev, Georg Grossmann, Matt Selway, and Markus Stumptner
  An integrated multi-level modeling approach for industrial-scale data interoperability
  Software & Systems Modeling (2016), 1–26, 2016.

• Thomas Aschauer, Gerd Dauenhauer, and Wolfgang Pree
  Representation and Traversal of Large Clabject Models
  In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, MODELS 2009, Denver, CO, USA, October 4-9, 17–31, 2009.

Standards involving Multi-Level Modelling

• ISO/IEC 24744:2014 Software Engineering -- Metamodel for Development Methodologies.

Evaluations/Comparisons

• Thomas Kühne, Arne Lange
  Melanee and DLM. A Contribution to the MULTI Collaborative Comparison Challenge
  MULTI 2022 Workshop Proceedings, 9th International Workshop on Multi-Level Modelling, Montreal, Canada, October 2022.

• Sándor Bácsi, Arne Lange, Thomas Kühne, Gergely Mezei, Colin Atkinson
  Melanee and DMLA . A Contribution to the MULTI 2021 Collaborative Comparison Challenge
  ACM/IEEE Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems Companion, 2021

• Thomas Kühne, Arne Lange
  Meaningful Metrics for Multi-Level Modelling
  MULTI 2020 Workshop Proceedings, DOI: 10.1145/3417990.3421412, 2020.

• Colin Atkinson, Thomas Kühne
  On Evaluating Multi-Level Modeling
  MULTI 2017 Workshop Proceedings, Vol-2019, pp. 274–277, 2017.

• Ralph Gerbig
  Deep, Seamless, Multi-format, Multi-notation Definition and Use of Domain-specific Languages
  Ph.D. thesis, University of Mannheim, 2017

• Atkinson, C., Gerbig, R., Lara, J.D., Guerra, E.
  A feature-based comparison of Melanee and MetaDepth
  CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol-1722, pp. 25–34, 2016

• Igamberdiev, M., Grossmann, G., Stumptner, M.
  A feature-based categorization of multi-level modeling approaches and tools
  CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol-1722, pp. 45–55, 2016

• Kosaku Kimura, K.S.
  An evaluation of multi-level modeling frameworks for extensible graphical editing tools
  CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Vol-1722, pp. 35–44, 2016

• Rossini, A., de Lara, J., Guerra, E., Nikolov, N.
  A comparison of two-level and multi-level modelling for cloud-based applications
  Proceedings of ECMFA 2015. pp. 18–32. LNCS 9153, 2015

Multi-Level Programming

• Thomas Kühne
  Can Programming be Liberated from the Two-Level Style? — Multi-Level Programming with DeepJava
  Proceedings of the ACM SIGPLAN International Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages and Applications: OOPSLA'07, October 21–25, Montréal, Canada, 2007

Dual Deep Instantiation

• Bernd Neumayr, Manfred A. Jeusfeld, Michael Schrefl, Christoph Schütz
  Dual Deep Instantiation and Its ConceptBase Implementation
  Proceedings CAiSE 2014, Thessaloniki, Greece, June 2014, Springer, LNCS 8484, pp. 503-517, 2014, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-07881-6_34

Foundations

• Thomas Kühne
  Multi-Dimensional Multi-Level Modeling
  Software and Systems Modeling, Theme Issue Paper, published by Springer Nature, Vol. 21, pp. 543-559, January 2022

• Thomas Kühne, Manfred Jeusfeld
  Sanity-Checking Multiple Levels of Classification -- A Formal Approach with a ConceptBase Implementation
  Proceedings of the International Conference on Conceptual Modeling, LNCS 14320, ER 2023, pp 162-180, 2023

• Thomas Kühne
  Exploring Potency
  In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE 21st International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, Copenhagen, Denmark, October 14-19, pp. 2-12, 2018.

• Thomas Kühne
  A Story of Levels
  In Proceedings of the 5th Workshop on Multi-Level Modelling co-located with the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference MODELS 2018, CEUR, pp. 673-682, Vol-2245, 2018

• João Paulo A. Almeida, Claudenir M. Fonseca, Victorio A. Carvalho
  A Comprehensive Formal Theory for Multi-level Conceptual Modeling
  In Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER 2017), 2017

• Colin Atkinson and Thomas Kühne
  Demystifying Ontological Classification in Language Engineering
  Modelling Foundations and Applications, LNCS 9764, pp 83-100, 2016

• Dirk Draheim
  Reflective Constraint Writing
  Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems, vol. 24, LNCS 9510, Springer, 2016, pp. 1-60

• Colin Atkinson, Ralph Gerbig, Thomas Kühne
  A Unifying Approach to Connections for Multi-Level Modeling
  Proceedings of 18th ACM/IEEE International Conference MODELS 2015, Ottawa, Canada, 2015

• Juan de Lara and Esther Guerra and Jesús Sánchez Cuadrado
  When and How to Use Multi-Level Modelling
  ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, Vol 24(2). pp.:1-46, 2014.

• Colin Atkinson, Ralph Gerbig, Thomas Kühne
  Comparing Multi-Level Modeling Approaches
  Proceedings of the 1st Workshop on Multi-Level Modelling co-located with the 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference MODELS 2014, CEUR, 53-61, Vol-1286, 2014

• Alessandro Rossini and Juan de Lara and Esther Guerra and Adrian Rutle and Uwe Wolter
  A formalisation of deep metamodelling
  Formal Aspects of Computing (Springer), Vol 26(6). pp.:1115-1152. 2014.

• Alessandro Rossini and Juan de Lara and Esther Guerra and Adrian Rutle and Yngve Lamo
  A Graph Transformation-Based Semantics for Deep Metamodelling
  AGTIVE 2011: 4th International Symposium on Applications of Graph Transformation with Industrial Relevance, (Budapest) LNCS 7233 (Springer). pp.:19-34

• Thomas Kühne
  Making Modeling Languages Fit for Model-Driven Development
  Proceedings of the 4th International Workshop on Software Language Engineering (ATEM 2007). In association with MoDELS 2007, September 30– October 5, Nashville, USA, 2007

• Colin Atkinson and Thomas Kühne
  Reducing Accidental Complexity in Domain Models
  Journal on Software and Systems Modeling, 2007

• Colin Atkinson and Thomas Kühne
  A Tour of Language Customization Concepts
  Advances in Computers, Volume 70, Marvin Zelkowitz, editor, p. 105–161, ISBN: 978-0-12-373747-2, Academic Press, Elsevier, June 2007

• Cesar Gonzalez-Perez and Brian Henderson-Sellers
  "Modelling software development methodologies: A conceptual foundation"
  Journal of Systems and Software 80(11): 1778-1796 (2007)

• Thomas Kühne
  Matters of (Meta-)Modeling
  Journal on Software and Systems Modeling, Volume 5, Number 4, 369–385, December 2006

• Thomas Kühne
  Clarifying Matters of (Meta-)Modeling
  Journal on Software and Systems Modeling, Volume 5, Number 4, 395–401, December 2006. (a response to Wolfgang Hesse's "More matters on (meta-)modelling: remarks on Thomas Kühne’s “matters”" in the same issue, 387–394.

• Cesar Gonzalez-Perez and Brian Henderson-Sellers
  "A powertype-based metamodelling framework"
  Software and System Modeling 5(1): 72-90 (2006)

• Thomas Kühne and Friedrich Steimann
  Tiefe Charakterisierung
  Appeared in B Rumpe, W Hesse (editors) Modellierung 2004, LNI 45 (GI, 2004), p. 121–133, Marburg, March 2004

• Colin Atkinson and Thomas Kühne
  Model-Driven Development: A Metamodeling Foundation
  IEEE Software, vol. 20, no. 5, pp. 36–41, 2003

• Colin Atkinson and Thomas Kühne
  The Essence of Multilevel Metamodeling
  Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on the Unified Modeling Language, Toronto, Canada, 1–5 October, 2001

Integration with Ontologies

• Claudenir M. Fonseca, João Paulo A. Almeida, Giancarlo Guizzardi, Victorio A. Carvalho
  Multi-level conceptual modeling: Theory, language and application
  Data & Knowledge Engineering, Vol. 134, (2021)

• V. A. Carvalho, J. P.o A. Almeida, C. M. Fonseca, G. Guizzardi
  Multi-level ontology-based conceptual modeling
  Data & Knowledge Engineering 109(C): 3-24 (2017)

Melanee

• Melanee Publications

MetaDepth

• Collection of MetaDepth Publications

• Juan de Lara and Esther Guerra and Jesús Sánchez Cuadrado
  Model-driven engineering with domain-specific meta-modelling languages
  Software and Systems Modeling (Springer), Vol 14(1). pp.:429-459. 2015.

• Juan de Lara and Esther Guerra and Ruth Cobos and Jaime Moreno Llorena
  Extending deep meta-modelling for practical model-driven engineering
  The Computer Journal, Vol 57(1). pp.:36-58. 2014.

• Esther Guerra and Juan de Lara
  Towards automating the analysis of integrity constraints in multi-level models
  Proceedings of MULTI'2014 (vol 1239 of CEUR). 2014.

• Juan de Lara and Esther Guerra
  Domain-specific textual meta-modelling languages for model-driven engineering
  ECMFA'12: 8th European Conference on Modelling Foundations and Applications, (Lyngby) LNCS 7349 (Springer). pp.:259-274. 2012.

• Juan de Lara and Esther Guerra
  Deep meta-modelling with MetaDepth
  TOOLS Europe 2010: 48th International Conference on Objects, Models, Components, Patterns, (Málaga) LNCS 6141 (Springer). pp.:1-20. 2010.