RESEARCH TRAINING GROUP

Software with long life cycles is facing continuously changing contexts. New functionality has to be added, new platforms have to be addressed, and existing business rules have to be adjusted. The concept of role modeling has been introduced in different fields and at different times in order to model context-related information, including - above all - the dynamic change of contexts. However, often roles have only been used in an isolated way for context modeling in programming languages, in database modeling or to specify access control mechanisms. Never have they been used consistently on all levels of abstraction in the software development process, i.e. modeling of concepts, languages, applications, and software systems.

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