Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling - The OMiLAB Community of Practice

This third volume of the book series “Domain-Specific Conceptual Modelling” reports new application cases for domain-specific modelling languages and for the engineering of modelling languages and tools. All cases are using the ADOxx metamodeling platform or toolkits from the Digital Innovation Environment shared by the OMiLAB Community of Practice, which are available for open use. Via this platform, participants can share ideas and engage in an exploration process regarding model-based decision making, augmented intelligence or model-driven systems engineering.
All reported cases originate in research initiatives but are also adequate for teaching, demonstrations or experimentation tooling that can be further expanded to better grasp the benefits of metamodeling and scripting of model-based functionalities. Each chapter result is elevated with the possibility to download the modelling tool and apply the theoretical concepts practically following case studies and examples provided by the author. In addition to describing novel domain-specific languages or language extensions for diverse purposes and levels of specificity, the book offers detailed instructions on how to build models in a particular application domain – including the management of Internet of Things facilities, decentralized governance, intelligence augmentation, or digital nudging strategies.
Overall, the collection of works presented here will benefit experts and practitioners from academia and industry alike, including members of the conceptual modeling community as well as lecturers and students.

List of contents

Part 1: Modeling Approaches & Applications.- Chapter 1: The DECENT Software Modeling Toolkit to Design Decentralized Governance Models.- Chapter 2: Integrating Modeling Approaches for the Extended Enterprise: A Tailored Method for a Case Study Research.- Chapter 3: Service Capability Framework - Integrated Capital Utilization: Case of the Hotel Industry in Japan.- Chapter 4: IA4CM: An Intelligence Augmentation Approach for Designing Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling Methods.- Part 2: Enhance Modeling Capabilities.- Chapter5: ADoy! On Dynamically Integrating ADOxx and Alloy.- Chapter 6: Logical Rules for the Verification of Business Process Diagrams.- Chapter 7: ADONudge: A Digital Nudging Design and Knowledge Externalization Approach.- Chapter 8: Design Challenges in Developing a Visual Modeling Tool for the ITLingo ASL Language with ADOxx Framework: The ITLingo-ASL-Modeler.- Part 3: IoT Modeling Applications.- Chapter 9: Fostering IoT Application Portability across different platforms: The X-IoT Modeling Tool.- Chapter 10: Modeling IoT Applications for Air Conditioning Facilities with MIoTA.- Chapter 11: The HESTIA Framework. From an Internet of Things to an Internet of Meaning.- Chapter 12: DeViLL: A Methodology to Orchestrate a Formal Method and its Tool to an IoT Integration Platform for Smart IoT Systems.- Part 4: Design Thinking and Conceptual Modeling.- Chapter 13: The Disruption of Customer-Facing Processes through IoT in the Construction Industry: Development of a Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling Approach using Design Thinking with Scene2Model.- Chapter 14: Enhancing the Scene2Model Tool: A ResNet50Encoder-Based Add-On for Flexible Object Recognition in Design Thinking.- Chapter 15: Exploring Advanced Automation Methods and Tools in Industry and Agriculture using ADOxx as an Experimentation Environment.- Part 5: Low-code No-code.- Chapter 16: ADOxx Low-code No-code.

About the author

Xavier Boucher is Professor in Industrial Management at the Ecole des Mines de Saint Etienne, France. He is Research Director at the FAYOL Institute, a research center focusing on sustainable industrial performance and organisations. His current research focuses on product service systems (PSS), service-oriented production systems, collaborative-agile networks and decision models to manage the supply chain agility. He is currently leading several collaborative research projects in the field of design and management of PSS with an economic and manufacturing point of view.
Robert Andrei Buchmann is Professor in Business Information Systems and manages the OMILAB laboratory at Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania, focusing on Knowledge Graphs for Business Information Systems. He is the Scientific Director of the Business Informatics Research Center, where his team is investigating opportunities of interplay between knowledge graphs, large language models and enterprise modeling.
Hans-Georg Fill is full Professor at the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and Head of the Research Group Digitalization and Information Systems. He was a visiting researcher at Stanford University, USA, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany, and Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines at St. Etienne, France. His research activities focus on the development of IT-based modeling tools, distributed ledger technologies, visualization, and the alignment of conceptual modeling and semantic technologies.
Dimitris Kyritsis is Professor Emeritus of ICT for Sustainable Manufacturing at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, and Senior Adviser at SIRIUS Labs of the Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo, Norway. His research interests are Closed-Loop Lifecycle Management, Sustainable Manufacturing, Cognitive Digital Twins and Industrial Ontologies.
Wilfrid Utz is one of the managing directors of OMiLAB NPO, the non-profit organisation headquartered in Berlin, Germany, supporting the conceptual modeling community organized around emerging topics with respect to domain-specific conceptual modeling. He has been involved in numerous international research and innovation projects and gained experience in the field of modeling method conceptualisation, design and implementation of modeling tools using the open ADOxx Metamodeling Platform.

Summary

This third volume of the book series “Domain-Specific Conceptual Modelling” reports new application cases for domain-specific modelling languages and for the engineering of modelling languages and tools. All cases are using the ADOxx metamodeling platform or toolkits from the Digital Innovation Environment shared by the OMiLAB Community of Practice, which are available for open use. Via this platform, participants can share ideas and engage in an exploration process regarding model-based decision making, augmented intelligence or model-driven systems engineering.
All reported cases originate in research initiatives but are also adequate for teaching, demonstrations or experimentation tooling that can be further expanded to better grasp the benefits of metamodeling and scripting of model-based functionalities. Each chapter result is elevated with the possibility to download the modelling tool and apply the theoretical concepts practically following case studies and examples provided by the author. In addition to describing novel domain-specific languages or language extensions for diverse purposes and levels of specificity, the book offers detailed instructions on how to build models in a particular application domain – including the management of Internet of Things facilities, decentralized governance, intelligence augmentation, or digital nudging strategies.
Overall, the collection of works presented here will benefit experts and practitioners from academia and industry alike, including members of the conceptual modeling community as well as lecturers and students.

Product details

• Assisted by: Robert Andrei Buchmann (Editor), Xavier Boucher (Editor), Robert Andrei Buchmann (Editor), Hans-Georg Fill (Editor), Hans-Georg Fill et al (Editor), Dimitris Kyritsis (Editor), Wilfrid Utz (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Languages: English, German
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 27.11.2025
• EAN: 9783031986598
• ISBN: 978-3-031-98659-8
• Illustrations: Approx. 350 p.
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > IT, data processing > Application software; Design Thinking, Software Engineering, Wirtschaftsmathematik und -informatik, IT-Management, Computer and Information Systems Applications, Business Information Systems, Enterprise Architecture, Conceptual modeling, Enterprise modeling, knowledge engineering, modeling languages, Information Systems Design, metamodeling, Software Engineering Tools