Establishing Common Vocabulary

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Using the correct words in certain contexts is important, and it will be much easier to do so if we establish a glossary that contains each word and their different usages for each context, meaning Epidemiological or Model Driven Engineering (MDE) contexts mainly.

The first goal is to establish a glossary sufficient for the Systematic Literature Review (SLR) process. Essentially the glossary during the SLR is there to provide a list of keywords to be used when searching for relevant publications.

There might be conflicting terms or simply unclear or evolving terms during the project, so this issue will most likely stay open.

[BrunoC-L]

To guide the process of establishing first draft research questions which will help feed some information into the glossary:

M. Fokaefs:

Qu'est-ce qu'il se passe aux projets semblables? On voudrait savoir quels sont les outils de modélisation, si le MDE est appliqué au domaine de l'épidémiologie, quel est l'état du contrôle de version et de l'organisation des modèles épidémiologiques.

Translated:

How are similar projects being developped? Which tools are used when MDE is applied to the epidemiological domain. Similarly how are version control and organization of epidemiological models performed?

[BrunoC-L]

For SLR the idea is to build a query string that can be used systematically to find relevant articles from multiple sources. The first 2 goals are finding that string and finding which sources to search from, the string is the priority since it is meant to be reused as is through the entire SLR.

Objectives:

1. Finding a good query
2. Finding exclusion criteria such as article publication date
3. Snowballing results by looking at references of relevant articles
4. Further snowballing by looking at other publications of authors of relevant articles (may be harder)

[BrunoC-L]

In the end, the SLR will be presented in the article by:

1. Presenting the research questions, the query string and the sources
2. Presenting the articles
3. Explaining how the articles answer our research questions

Finding the research questions is also relevant for the SLR but the questions can be rephrased later on, unlike the query string for example. We will examine a few possible research questions soon (drafts).