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[[File:Meta-levels.svg|thumb|right|320px|Abstraction level for processes.<ref name="Rolland 1993">{{cite conference|author=[[Colette Rolland]] |title=Modeling the Requirements Engineering Process |conference= 3rd European-Japanese Seminar on Information Modelling and Knowledge Bases|___location= Budapest, Hungary |date=June 1993 |idciteseerx = {{citeseerx|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.

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The assembly technique is based on the idea of a process repository from which process components can be selected. Rolland (1998) lists two selection strategies:<ref name="Rolland 1998" />

#Promoting a ''global'' analysis of the project on hand based on contingency criteria (Example Van Slooten 1996<ref name="Van Slooten 1996">{{cite book |author1=K. Van Slooten |author2=B. Hodes |chapter= Characterising IS development project |title=[[IFIP WG 8.1]] Conf. on Method Engineering|publisher= Chapman and Hall |pages= 29–44|year= 1996 | ___location=London | isbn=0-412-79750-X }}</ref>)

#Using the notion of descriptors<ref name="Antonellis 1991">V. De Antonellis, B. Pernici, P. Samarati. F-ORM METHOD: A methodology for reusing specifications. In Object Oriented Approach in Information Systems. Van Assche F., Moulin B., C Rolland (eds), North Holland, 1991</ref> as a means to describe process chunks. This eases the retrieval of components meeting the requirements of the user / matching with the situation at hand.<ref name="Rolland 1996b">{{cite book |author1=Rolland, Colette |author2=Prakash, Naveen |lastauthoramp=yes | chapter = A proposal for context-specific method engineering | title = Proceedings of the IFIP TC8, WG8.1/8.2 working conference on method engineering on Method engineering : principles of method construction and tool support | year = 1996 |isbn = 0-412-79750-X |pages = 191–208 | publisher = Chapman & Hall | ___location = London }}</ref> (Example Plihon 1995<ref name="Plihon 1995">{{cite journal | author=V. Plihon, [[C. Rolland]] |title= Modelling Ways-of-Working |journal= Proc 7th Int. Conf. on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (CAISE) |publisher= Springer Verlag |year= 1995 |doi=10.1007/3-540-59498-1 | pages=126–139 | url= http://www.springerlink.com/content/f62651046x8q0j24/ }}</ref> in NATURE<ref name="NATURE" /> and repository of scenario based approaches accessible on Internet in the CREWS project<ref name="CREWS">[http://sunsite.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/CREWS CREWS project homepage (Cooperative Requirements Engineering With Scenarios)]</ref><ref name="Rolland 1998b">{{cite journal| author=[[C. Rolland]], C. Ben Achour, C. Cauvet, J. Ralyté, A. Sutcliffe, N.A.M. Maiden, M. Jarke, P. Haumer, [[Klaus Pohl (computer scientist)|K. Pohl]], Dubois, P. Heymans | title= A proposal for a scenario classification framework | journal=Requirements Engineering Journal| volume= 3 | issue=1| pages=23 | year= 1998 | doi=10.1007/BF02802919 |idciteseerx = {{citeseerx|10.1.1.30.5360}} }}</ref>)

For the assembly technique to be successful, it is necessary that process models are modular. If the assembly technique is combined with the instantiation technique then the meta-model must itself be modular.<ref name="Rolland 1998" />

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#It forces to look for and introduce, in the process meta-model, generic solutions to problems and this makes the derived process models inherit the solution characteristics.

"The instantiation technique has been used, for example, in NATURE,<ref name="NATURE">[http://www-i5.informatik.rwth-aachen.de/PROJEKTE/NATURE/nature.html NATURE project homepage (Novel Approaches to Theories Underlying Requirements Engineering)]</ref> Rolland 1993,<ref name="Rolland 1993" /> Rolland 1994,<ref name="Rolland 1994">{{cite journal|author=[[C. Rolland]] |title= A Contextual Approach to modeling the Requirements Engineering Process |journal=6th Intl. Conf. on Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering |___location= Jurmala, Latvia |date= June 1994 | idciteseerx = {{citeseerx|10.1.1.52.9389}} }}</ref> and Rolland 1996.<ref name="Rolland 1996">{{cite journal | doi = 10.1109/ICRE.1996.491442 | title = Using generic method chunks to generate process models fragments | year = 1996 | last1 = Rolland | first1 = C. | last2 = Plihon | first2 = V. | pages = 173 | journal=Second International Conference on Requirements Engineering (ICRE'96)}}</ref> The process engineer must define the instances of contexts and relationships that comprise the process model of interest."<ref name="Rolland 1998" />

=== Language ===

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* PS-Algol for PWI<ref name="Finkelstein 1994" />

as well as further computational paradigms:

* [[Petri nets]] in EPOS<ref name="Jacherri 1992" /> and SPADE<ref name="Bandinelli 1993">{{cite book | chapter = Process Modeling in-the-large with SLANG (1993) |author1=S. Bandinelli |author2=A. Fugetta |author3=S. Grigoli | title= Proc. of the 2nd Int. Conf. on Software Process | ___location= Berlin |year= 1993 |pages=75–93 | idciteseerx = {{citeseerx|10.1.1.31.9650}} }}</ref>

* Rule based paradigm in MERLIN<ref name="Emmerich 1991">W. Emmerich, G. Junkermann, W Schafer, MERLIN : knowledge-based process modeling, Proc. of the First European Workshop on Software Process Modeling, Milan, Italy, 1991.</ref>

* ALF<ref name="Benali 1989">{{cite journal |title=Presentation of the ALF project, Proceedings Conference software development environments and factories |___location= Berlin | year=1989 |url=http://opensigle.inist.fr/handle/10068/43710 |author= Derniame, J.C.,Benali, K.,Charoy, F., Boudjlida, N., Godart, C. }} {{hdl|10068/43710}}</ref>

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#ISG-3 Progress from Write a scenario

#ISG-4 Progress from Start

;Strategy Selection Guidelines (SSG)