FSM-Based Object-Oriented Organization Modeling and Simulation

Abstract

This paper presents the idea of the convergent approach to modeling and simulation of business requirements and software development based on the combination of the FSM and the Object-Oriented Approach. The first part of this paper discusses the motivation for the need to connect two areas of modeling and simulation: business requirements and software engineering. The second part of the paper presents the idea of modeling of processes and business situations as more mutually associated FSM representing particular objects and shows examples of this approach. The third and the last part of the paper presents the mapping of the proposed approach to BPMN-based and UML-based models and provides interesting new findings resulting from the proposed approach. This approach is based on our experience with our recent practical projects concerning business modeling and simulation in various application areas (e.g. health care, gas supply industry, regional management, administration process design of a new faculty of a university) and subsequent software development in these application areas.

Towards Formal Foundations for BORM ORD Validation and Simulation

“…Successfull utilisations have been reported and published ever since, mostly in the area of IT and knowledge systems analysis and design (Knott et al, 2003), Object Behavior Analysis (Knott et al, 2000), (Merunka and Merunkova, 2013), Organization Modelling and Simulation (Brozek et al, 2010), ontological analysis (Pergl, 2011) and Business Intelligence (Merunka and Molhanec, 2011). Several other methods and techniques are based on the BORM method, such as FSM-Based Object-Oriented Organization Modeling and Simulation (Merunka, 2012), the C.C Language (Merunka et al, 2008) or a complexity estimation method called "BORM Points" (Struska and Merunka, 2007).…”

Automated model transformation method from BORM to BPMN

“…This paper describes two models used to represent business processes and presents a transformation method between them. The first model under investigation is BPMN (Business Process Modelling Notation) [2] and the second model is BORM-II (Business Object Relation Modelling, second generation) [11], [12]. This research aims to connect popular BPMN Process-State diagram (PSD) with older yet innovative BORM Object Relation Diagram (ORD) [13], in order to bridge the gap between engineers and business analysts, who are typical users of these methods.…”