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Breathing Life into Models: The Next Generation of Enterprise Modeling

Software Engineering 2022-05-20 v1

Abstract

Edsger W. Dijkstra has frequently suggested building a "firewall" between the technology- and application-side of computer science. His justification: The methods to attack the computer scientists' formal, mathematical "correctness problem" differ fundamentally from the methods to attack the applicants' informal "pleasantness problem". In this setting, a model is always confined to one side or the other of this wall. This keynote shows that a seamless transition between both sides can be achieved by a framework with architecture, statics, and dynamics as the three pillars of modeling computer-integrated systems. Selected examples justify this framework. It allows to "breath life" into (static) models, and it implies a new understanding of the "pleasantness" of computer-integrated systems, which is well-needed in the age of "digital first".

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@article{arxiv.2205.09591,
  title  = {Breathing Life into Models: The Next Generation of Enterprise Modeling},
  author = {Peter Fettke and Wolfgang Reisig},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2205.09591},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

8 pages, 11 figures, author prepared version of final manuscript based on the invited keynote at ICSOFT 2022, http://www.icsoft.org