General-purpose modeling

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General-Purpose Modeling (GPM) is the systematic use of a General-Purpose modeling language (GPL) to represent the various facets of an object or a system. Examples of GPM languages are:

  • - the Unified Modeling Language (UML), an industry standard for modeling software-intensive systems,
  • - EXPRESS (ISO 10303-11), an international standard for the specification of data models,
  • - IDEF, a group of languages from the 1970s that aimed to be neutral, generic and reusable,
  • - Gellish, an industry standard natural language oriented modeling language for storage and exchange of data and knowledge, published in 2005.

Contrast GPM languages with dedicated Domain-Specific Modeling (DSM) languages, which like Domain-Specific Languages (DSLs), are maturing and becoming a viable alternative to GPM languages.

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