Foreword

Richard Mark Soley, Ph.D.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Object Management Group, Inc., Brussels, Belgium

Early in this excellent tome you will find a terminological quibble, one of the myriad quibbles over terms found in the juvenile field of computer science. Should we say model-based engineering, model-based development, or model-driven development? There are really two arguments in that quibble:

1. Is it model-based or model-driven? These are functionally the same, based on the concept that complex organizations of systems should be based on (driven by) lower cost (and generally more abstract) models of those organizations.

2. Is it engineering, development, or (dare I say) architecture? In fact modeling should be used ...

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