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Practical Software Analysis vs. Design Modelling
Practical modelling in software analysis differs significantly from design. The IMHO main differences are highlighted here. Continue reading
The Killer Application of Software Modelling
From my experience as a business analyst (BA) I would say: checking or transforming models is interesting and important, but the real killer application of a model in software development is (simply) talking about it. Continue reading
Posted in Requirements, Software_Engineering
Tagged Business Analyst, customer collaboration, IIBA, IREB, managing complexity, model, Modelling, Requirements, Requirements Analysis, Requirements Engineering, Requirements Modeling, software development, software modelling, software requirements
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A simple relational Model
Modelling foundations: What does a simple diagram ‘thing – relation – thing’ say, in terms of logic? Continue reading
Craftsman or Engineer?
A lot has been written on the differences between Craftsman and Engineer. Recently I came across a simple example by Hofstadter & Sander, that nicely shows the basic difference in thinking: Continue reading
Posted in Abstract Thinking, Software_Engineering
Tagged abstraction, analogy, craft, craftsman, craftsmanship, Douglas Hofstadter, Emmanuel Sander, engineer, engineering, Hofstadter, marking, model, Modelling, parallelogram, rectangle, rhombus, software engineering, square, surfaces and essences
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Reflections on Abstractions: Subsumption I
We’re going to look at a subsumptional mapping from lhs original to rhs model. We will get four cases of subsumption as in figure (strictest cases), which now can be developed into a continuum with the four cases as corner points. Continue reading
Reflections on Abstractions: From ‘Siamese’ Graphs to Concept Lattices
There is an elegant construct of dealing with ‘Siamese’ abstractions for object-attribute situations, from formal concept analysis. Where ‘Siamese’ means not-rhs-unique mapping of complete subgraphs. Continue reading
Reflections on Abstractions: Subsumptions and Omissions
In addition to the recent posting ‘Abstractive and Functional Mappings’ we provide a simple visualisation of subsuming and omitting abstractions. Continue reading
Posted in Mathematics, Reflections on Abstractions
Tagged abstraction, Graph, left-total, left-unique, lhs, Mapping, model, modeling, omission, reflections on abstractions, Relation, rhs, ROA, subsumption
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Reflections on Abstractions: Abstractive vs Functional Mappings
We introduce the concepts of subsuming and omitting mappings, and see how they are better suited for abstraction and modelling than the classical mathematical concept of functions. Continue reading
Posted in Mathematics, Reflections on Abstractions
Tagged abstraction, bijection, function, Graph, left-total, left-unique, lhs, Mapping, model, modeling, reflections on abstractions, Relation, rhs, ROA, total, unique
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Modelling explained (to Journalists)
In journalism dog bites man or man bites dog, makes a big difference. In modelling it’s the same entities with the same relation, just in different directions. Continue reading
Posted in Software_Engineering
Tagged abstraction, bites, dog, entity, journalism, journalist, man, man bites dog, model, Modelling, Relation
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