This is the concept of metamodeling in computer science and related disciplines. For the language patterns known as the Meta-model in Neuro-linguistic programming see Meta model (NLP).

Most general, metamodeling or meta-modeling is the analysis, construction and development of the frames, rules, constraints, models and theories applicable and useful for the modeling in a predefined class of problems. This concept definition is composed with the notions of the terms meta- and modeling.

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