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[[File:Meta-levels.svg|thumb|right|320px|Abstraction level for processes.<ref name="Rolland 1993">{{cite conference|author=[[Colette Rolland]] |year=1993 |title=Modeling the Requirements Engineering Process |conference= 3rd European-Japanese Seminar on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases|___location= Budapest, Hungary |date=June 1993 |id = {{citeseerxrx|10.1.1.29.8738}} }}</ref>]]'''Meta-process modeling''' is a type of [[metamodeling]] used in [[software engineering]] and [[systems engineering]] for the analysis and construction of models applicable and useful to some predefined problems.

Meta-process modeling supports the effort of creating flexible [[process model]]s. The purpose of process models is to document and communicate processes and to enhance the reuse of processes. Thus, processes can be better taught and executed. Results of using meta-process models are an increased productivity of process engineers and an improved quality of the models they produce.<ref name="Rolland 1998" />

== Overview ==

Meta-process modeling focuses on vishal and supports the process of constructing [[process model]]s. Its main concern is to improve process models and to make them evolve, which in turn, will support the development of systems.<ref name="Rolland 1998">{{cite book | chapter=A Comprehensive View of Process Engineering | title=Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering table of contents | pages =1–24 | year= 1998 |isbn=3-540-64556-X | author= Colette Rolland

|publisher=Springer-Verlag |___location= London }}</ref> This is important due to the fact that “[[Process (engineering)|processes]] change with time and so do the [[Process Model]]s underlying them. Thus, new processes and models may have to be built and existing ones improved”.<ref name="Rolland 1998" /> “The focus has been to increase the level of formality of process models in order to make possible their enactment in process-centred software environments”.<ref name="Rolland 1999">{{cite journal | doi=10.1007/s007660050018 | title=A Multi-Model View of Process Modelling | year=1999 | last1=Rolland | first1=C. | last2=Prakash | first2=N. | last3=Benjamen | first3=A. | journal=Requirements Engineering | volume=4 |issue=4| page=169}}</ref> referring to:<ref name="Finkelstein 1994">{{cite book | editor=A. Finkelstein, J. Kramer, B. Nuseibeh |title=Software process modelling and technology. |publisher=Wiley |___location=New York | year=1994 | isbn=0-471-95206-0}}</ref>