Enterprise Asset Management as a Flow Machine

Al-Fedaghi, Sabah; Al-Huwais, Nourah

doi:10.7763/ijmo.2018.v8.667

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“…Currently, no formal proof exists that the five TM stages are sufficient to describe all behavior processes. The TM model has been applied to many real systems, such as in phone communication [29], physical security [17], vehicle tracking [19], intelligent monitoring [32], asset management [20], information leakage [22], engineering plants [23], inventory management processes [24], procurement processes [26], public key infrastructure network architecture [26], bank check processing [35], waste water treatment [39], computer attacks [26], provenance [42], services in banking industry architecture network [31], and digital circuits [37]. Additionally, we will expend extensive effort to partially substantiate the claim of the genericity of the TM stages in different fields.…”

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Five Generic Processes for Behavior Description in Software Engineering

Al-Fedaghi

2019

SSRN Journal

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Behavior modeling and software architecture specification are attracting more attention in software engineering. Describing both of them in integrated models yields numerous advantages for coping with complexity since the models are platform independent. They can be decomposed to be developed independently by experts of the respective fields, and they are highly reusable and may be subjected to formal analysis. Typically, behavior is defined as the occurrence of an action, a pattern over time, or any change in or movement of an object. In systems studies, there are many different approaches to modeling behavior, such as grounding behavior simultaneously on state transitions, natural language, and flowcharts. These different descriptions make it difficult to compare objects with each other for consistency. This paper attempts to propose some conceptual preliminaries to a definition of behavior in software engineering. The main objective is to clarify the research area concerned with system behavior aspects and to create a common platform for future research. Five generic elementary processes (creating, processing, releasing, receiving, and transferring) are used to form a unifying higher-order process called a thinging machine (TM) that is utilized as a template in modeling behavior of systems. Additionally, a TM includes memory and triggering relations among stages of processes (machines). A TM is applied to many examples from the literature to examine their behavioristic aspects. The results show that a TM is a valuable tool for analyzing and modeling behavior in a system.

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Five Generic Processes for Behavior Description in Software Engineering

Al-Fedaghi

2019

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“…The task then flows (9) to the technician, who later examines the task to decide on the following: 1) Given that it is possible to call the user and solve the problem by phone (10), the technician places a phone call (11) to the user and guide the user step by step to solve the problem through the phone (12).…”

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“…This paper promotes conceptual modeling that is based on the Heideggerian [7] notion of thinging as a framework for computational thinking. Heideggerian thinging is generalized as an abstract thinging machine (TM) [8][9][10][11][12][13].…”

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Thinging for Computational Thinking

Al-Fedaghi¹,

Alkhaldi²

2019

ijacsa

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This paper examines conceptual models and their application to computational thinking. Computational thinking is a fundamental skill for everybody, not just for computer scientists. It has been promoted as skills that are as fundamental for all as numeracy and literacy. According to authorities in the field, the best way to characterize computational thinking is the way in which computer scientists think and the manner in which they reason how computer scientists think for the rest of us. Core concepts in computational thinking include such notions as algorithmic thinking, abstraction, decomposition, and generalization. This raises several issues and challenges that still need to be addressed, including the fundamental characteristics of computational thinking and its relationship with modeling patterns (e.g., object-oriented) that lead to programming/coding. Thinking pattern refers to recurring templates used by designers in thinking. In this paper, we propose a representation of thinking activity by adopting a thinking pattern called thinging that utilizes a diagrammatic technique called thinging machine (TM). We claim that thinging is a valuable process as a fundamental skill for everybody in computational thinking. The viability of such a proclamation is illustrated through examples and a case study. This paper promotes conceptual modeling that is based on the Heideggerian [7] notion of thinging as a framework for computational thinking. Heideggerian thinging is generalized as an abstract thinging machine (TM) [8][9][10][11][12][13]. B. Core ConceptsAs will be described in this paper, we propose five basic concepts to model computational thinking: The notion of thing; The notion of TM; Five flow operations of things: create, process, release, transfer, and receive; and  Triggering.

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“…papers(Al-Fedaghi & Atiyah, 2018;Al-Fedaghi & Al-Huwais, 2018);Al-Fedaghi & AlQallaf, 2018;Al-Fedaghi&Alnasser,2018;Al-Fedaghi,2013,6(3),59-70;Al-Fedaghi,2013,4(3),30; Al-Fedaghi,2008,Al-Fedaghi,2006,tobeusedasathinkingstyleandasavehicleforbuildinga networkarchitecturediagram.…”

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Conceptual Modeling of an IP Phone Communication System

Al-Fedaghi

Aldamkhi

2021

International Journal of Interdisciplinary Telecommunications and Networking

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In computing, a network generally denotes devices, often referred to as nodes, connected by links. Networks that are modeled with diagrams consist of hundreds of symbols, images, pictures, and icons, such as a computer, a server rack, or a cloud-based storage system. Network representations provide valuable insights into understanding the systems' underlying structures and mechanisms. Nevertheless, this unusually large number of superficial symbols and icons reflects a need for more systematic representations of the interiority of nodes. To give uniformity to this cascade of notions of basic units of nodes in network diagrams, the authors propose adoption of a new modeling methodology, called a thinging (abstract) machine (TM) (abstract machine of things) that represents all notions as a single diagrammatic machine. Because of the large number of network types, in this paper, they specifically and without loss of generality focus on IP telephone (internet protocol telephone) networks to exemplify communication networks. A real case study of IP telephone networks is modeled using TM.

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Enterprise Asset Management as a Flow Machine

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Five Generic Processes for Behavior Description in Software Engineering

Five Generic Processes for Behavior Description in Software Engineering

Thinging for Computational Thinking

Conceptual Modeling of an IP Phone Communication System

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