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132 CHAPTER 8. QUALITY EVALUATION OF THE METHOD
identified as follows.
Figure 8.2: Language quality in the quality framework [80]
• Domain appropriateness indicates whether the modeling language addresses
the problems of eliciting/representing relevant facts of the problem domain. Domain
appropriateness is primarily a means to achieve semantic quality.
• Participant appropriateness indicates whether the modeling language corresponds
to what the participants perceive as a natural way of working, i.e. the
modeling language they have known. This is primarily a means to achieve pragmatic
quality.
• Modeler appropriateness indicates whether the modeling language assists the
modelers in externalizing their knowledge. Modeler appropriateness is primarily
a means to achieve semantic quality.
• Comprehensibility appropriateness indicates whether the social actors are
able to comprehend the models made in the modeling language. Comprehensibility
appropriateness is primarily a means to achieve empirical and pragmatic
quality.
• Tool appropriateness indicates whether the modeling language lends themselves
to automated tool support or assists in support for reasoning. Tool appropriateness
could be means to achieve syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic quality
through formal syntax, mathematical semantics, and operational semantics, respectively.