An automatic system modeling framework for information system engineering

System modeling is considered as a key issue in information system engineering (ISE). According to the problems in current ISE, we propose seven guidelines for creating a modeling tool to solve them. Considering the achievements in the field of modeling the software process, we present the Object-Oriented Automatic System Modeling Framework (OOAMF) to meet those guidelines. OOAMF is rule-based, and it can guide users incrementally to create a rule-based object model (RBOM) of a target system. OOAMF remembers the domain knowledge obtained from the previous modeling activities and uses it to guide the following activities. This paper describes OOAMF, presents a formal description of the RBOM and demonstrates how the RBOM view is mapped by an object transformation.