Editing Modeling language (section)

== Applications ==
Various kinds of modeling languages are applied in different disciplines, including [[computer science]], [[information management]], [[business process modeling]], [[software engineering]], and [[systems engineering]]. Modeling languages can be used to specify:
* system requirements,
* structures and
* behaviors.
Modeling languages are intended to be used to precisely specify systems so that stakeholders (e.g., customers, operators, analysts, designers) can better understand the system being modeled.

The more mature modeling languages are precise, consistent and executable. [[Technical Drawing#Applications|Informal diagramming]] techniques applied with drawing tools are expected to produce useful pictorial representations of system requirements, structures and behaviors, which can be useful for communication, design, and problem solving but cannot be used programmatically.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Baltes|first1=Sebastian|last2=Diehl|first2=Stephan|title=Proceedings of the 22nd ACM SIGSOFT International Symposium on Foundations of Software Engineering |chapter=Sketches and diagrams in practice |date=2014-11-11|chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1145/2635868.2635891|series=FSE 2014|location=Hong Kong, China|publisher=Association for Computing Machinery|pages=530–541|doi=10.1145/2635868.2635891|isbn=978-1-4503-3056-5|arxiv=1706.09172|s2cid=2436333 }}</ref>{{Rp|539}} Executable modeling languages applied with proper tool support, however, are expected to automate system [[verification and validation]], [[simulation]] and [[Automatic programming|code generation]] from the same representations.