  This White Paper sets out to explain the value that metamodelling can bring
to air traffic management (ATM) research. It will define metamodelling and
explore what it can, and cannot, do. The reader is assumed to have basic
knowledge of SESAR: the Single European Sky ATM Research project. An important
element of SESAR, as the technological pillar of the Single European Sky
initiative, is to bring about improvements, as measured through specific key
performance indicators (KPIs), and as implemented by a series of so-called
SESAR 'Solutions'. These 'Solutions' are new or improved operational procedures
or technologies, designed to meet operational and performance improvements
described in the European ATM Master Plan.
