TY - SER AU - Atkinson, Colin AU - Kuhne, Thomas AU - Henderson-Sellers, Brian TI - To meta or not to meta--that is the question KW - OBJECT-BSED MODELING KW - CLASSES KW - OBJECTS KW - METAMODELING N1 - An important example ot the contusion between inheritance ana metamodeling that can arise in the application of the UML is in the definition of predefined modeling elements. The purpose of predefined modeling elements is to define the environment in which new model elements are defined by the user, and thus to define the predefined properties that these user-created elements can attain ER -