Models are fundamentally crucial to many scientific fields, including software engineering, systems engineering, enterprise modeling, and business modeling. This paper focuses on diagrammatic conceptual modeling, as opposed to mathematical or computational models, wherein a conceptual model is a translation of reality processes into an abstract mechanism that has similar structure and parallel events of the external processes. Although various modeling approaches exist, including UML (Unified Modeling Language) in software engineering and its dialect, SysML (System Modeling Language), in systems engineering, several difficulties arise in such models, including the problem of model multiplicity that is related to the lack an integrated view of structure and behavior. This paper generalizes conceptual modeling to be applied in organizations at large. According to authorities, the so-called organization theory portrays organizations as machine-like systems. As a machine, an organization coordinates its parts to transform inputs into outputs. Therefore, we synthesize the notion of an organization as a machine and apply a new modeling methodology called thinging machine (TM) to real engineering operations. The results show the viability of the TM methodology serving as a foundation for high-level modelling of systems.
翻译:模型对许多科学领域,包括软件工程、系统工程、企业建模和商业建模,具有根本重要性。本文侧重于图表概念模型,而不是数学或计算模型,其中概念模型将现实过程转化为抽象机制,其结构和外部过程的平行事件类似。虽然在软件工程及其方言、系统工程学中存在各种模型方法,包括UML(统一建模语言)及其方言、SysML(系统建模语言),但这类模型中出现若干困难,包括模型多样性问题,这与缺乏对结构和行为的综合认识有关。本文概括了将概念模型应用于整个组织的概念模型。据当局称,所谓的组织理论将组织描绘成一个类似机器的系统。作为一个机器,一个组织协调其部分,将投入转化为产出。因此,我们综合了一个组织的概念,对实际工程作业采用了称为定型机器(TM)的新建模方法。结果显示TM方法的可行性,作为系统高层次建模的基础。