Designing on metamodels of air traffic management architecture modeling based on multi-frame modeling language

Purpose This paper aims to propose a set of metamodels applicable to the architecture modeling of air traffic management systems|air traffic management system (ATMS) under the UAF methodology. The designing of metamodels also needs to meet modeling requirements for the introduction of new supersonic airliners into the ATMS. Design/methodology/approach In order to complete the designing of metamodels and the architecture modeling work in the case study, the GOPPRR method and the M0–M3 modeling framework are used in this paper. The design and modeling work carried out in this paper was done in the multi-architecture modeling tool Airdraw. Findings In this paper, the set of metamodels applicable to the architecture modeling of ATMS under the UAF methodology was proposed, which has a quantity of 102 object metamodels, eight point metamodels, 98 property metamodels, 41 relationship metamodels, 36 role metamodels and 65 graph metamodels. Originality/value The metamodel design proposed in this thesis allows for architectural modeling of the ATMS. Comparing with the traditional method of system engineering, which uses files to define, the model-based ATMS architecture can be updated for different ATMS and different aircraft types by modifying the parameters of the corresponding views or adding relevant supplementary model views in the architecture model library, which greatly improves the compatibility and modifiability of the system definition.