Using model comparison to maintain model-to-standard compliance

Abstract

Keeping an artifact, such as a an industrial design document or a process description, compliant with a relevant standard or norm is a challenging task. A wide variety of organizations, ranging from software houses to defense contractors, are concerned with this problem, since norm compliance (or lack thereof) can have important technical and business related consequences for them. In this paper, we discuss a compliance maintenance approach for complex structured documents that we are currently developing at Fraunhofer IESE. At the heart of this approach lies our Evolyzer model comparison tool and its underlying model comparison approach, DeltaProcess

Framework for Usage of Multiple Software Process Models

“…An approach for the control of model evolution and compliance maintenance is proposed in [9]. The organization may want to have assessments by several models in the hope of achieving the respective benefits of each model.…”

“…As an alternative approach the Resource Description Framework (RDF) has also been evaluated. In [9], it is proposed for expressing the models. RDF has come to be used as a general method for conceptual description or modeling of information that is implemented in web resources, using a variety of syntax formats.…”

Automated Comparison of Process Improvement Reference Models Based on Similarity Metrics

“…The need of a process architecture in a multi-model context on a more finegrained level is mentioned in a series of articles from SEI [7]. Fine granular elements mentioned in [8], [9], [10] or [11] such as inputs, outputs, roles are connected to identify similar procedures. However, they consider only the bilateral semantic equivalence between these elements.…”