| Article ID: | iaor1988861 |
| Country: | Canada |
| Volume: | 27 |
| Issue: | 3 |
| Start Page Number: | 311 |
| End Page Number: | 337 |
| Publication Date: | Aug 1989 |
| Journal: | INFOR |
| Authors: | Dedourek J.M., Sorenson P.G., Tremblay J.P. |
| Keywords: | design, information, systems |
Many computerized tools for developing information processing system specifications have been developed and reported on. A meta system, in the context of this paper, is a computerized system which generates such a set of tools from a specification in the meta language. This survey presents criteria for comparing such meta systems and surveys several meta systems reported in the literature.