Digital Forensics Domain and Metamodeling Development Approaches
This work provides a comparative analysis for digital forensics practitioners to standardize and improve metamodel development, but it is incremental as it reviews existing approaches rather than introducing new methods.
The paper reviews and compares existing metamodeling development approaches to select the best one for digital forensics, aiming to address complexity, interoperability, and heterogeneity issues in the domain.
Metamodeling is used as a general technique for integrating and defining models from different domains. This technique can be used in diverse application domains, especially for purposes of standardization. Also, this process mainly has a focus on the identification of general concepts that exist in various problem domain and their relations and to solve complexity, interoperability, and heterogeneity aspects of different domains. Several diverse metamodeling development approaches have been proposed in the literature to develop metamodels. Each metamodeling development process has some advantages and disadvantages too. Therefore, the objective of this paper is to provide a comprehensive review of existing metamodeling development approaches and conduct a comparative study among them-eventually selecting the best approach for metamodel development in the perspective of digital forensics.