Thinging Machine Applied to Information Leakage

Al-Fedaghi, Sabah; BehBehani, Mahmoud

doi:10.14569/ijacsa.2018.090914

Cited by 11 publications

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“…The TM model articulates the ontology of the world in terms of an entity that is simultaneously a thing and a machine, called a thimac [15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. A thimac is like a double-sided coin.…”

Section: Tm Modelingmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…3) The user processes (reads; 15) the message to trigger the creation of the PIN ( 16) that flows to the ATM ( 17), which sends it to the bank system (18). In the bank system, the PIN is processed (19).…”

Section: A Static Tm Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…o If they are the same, the product price (17) and description (18) are extracted from the product record.…”

Section: A Static Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The flows of different kinds of things (card, card number, OK/not OK, PIN messages) are separated by triggering. 16) that flows to the ATM (17), which sends it to the bank system (18). In the bank system, the PIN is processed (19).…”

Section: A Static Tm Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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UML Sequence Diagram: An Alternative Model

Al-Fedaghi¹

2021

IJACSA

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The UML sequence diagram is the second most common UML diagram that represents how objects interact and exchange messages over time. Sequence diagrams show how events or activities in a use case are mapped into operations of object classes in the class diagram. The general acceptance of sequence diagrams can be attributed to their relatively intuitive nature and ability to describe partial behaviors (as opposed to such diagrams as state charts). However, studies have shown that over 80% of graduating students were unable to create a software design or even a partial design, and many students had no idea how sequence diagrams were constrained by other models. Many students exhibited difficulties in identifying valid interacting objects and constructing messages with appropriate arguments. Additionally, according to authorities, even though many different semantics have been proposed for sequence diagrams (e.g., translations to state machines), there exists no suitable semantic basis refinement of required sequence diagram behavior because direct style semantics do not precisely capture required sequence diagram behaviors; translations to other formalisms disregard essential features of sequence diagrams such as guard conditions and critical regions. This paper proposes an alternative to sequence diagrams, a generalized model that provides further understanding of sequence diagrams to assimilate them into a new modeling language called thinging machine (TM). The sequence diagram is extended horizontally by removing the superficial vertical-only dimensional limitation of expansion to preserve the logical chronology of events. TM diagramming is spread nonlinearly in terms of actions. Events and their chronology are constructed on a second plane of description that is superimposed on the initial static description. The result is a more refined representation that would simplify the modeling process. This is demonstrated through remodeling sequence diagram cases from the literature.

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Section: Tm Modelingmentioning

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Section: A Static Tm Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…o If they are the same, the product price (17) and description (18) are extracted from the product record.…”

Section: A Static Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: A Static Tm Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

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UML Sequence Diagram: An Alternative Model

Al-Fedaghi¹

2021

IJACSA

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“… Accordingly, (i) If the new stock is equal or above minimum (16), meaning that there are enough items to be delivered, then the decision machine triggers the release of the requested items (17) to be directly delivered to the requesting department and the replacement of the current stock by the new stock (18). (ii) If the new stock is less than the minimum (19), then a partial response to the request is possible: -The available quantity of items is calculated (20) as (the current stock minus the minimum) and released (21) to the requesting department (assuming it accepts that).…”

Section: Commercial Departmentmentioning

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Conceptual Modeling of Inventory Management Processes as a Thinging Machine

Al-Fedaghi¹,

Al-Huwais²

2018

ijacsa

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A control model is typically classified into three forms: conceptual, mathematical and simulation (computer). This paper analyzes a conceptual modeling application with respect to an inventory management system. Today, most organizations utilize computer systems for inventory control that provide protection when interruptions or breakdowns occur within work processes. Modeling the inventory processes is an active area of research that utilizes many diagrammatic techniques, including data flow diagrams, Universal Modeling Language (UML) diagrams and Integration DEFinition (IDEF). We claim that current conceptual modeling frameworks lack uniform notions and have inability to appeal to designers and analysts. We propose modeling an inventory system as an abstract machine, called a Thinging Machine (TM), with five operations: creation, processing, receiving, releasing and transferring. The paper provides side-by-side contrasts of some existing examples of conceptual modeling methodologies that apply to TM. Additionally, TM is applied in a case study of an actual inventory system that uses IBM Maximo. The resulting conceptual depictions point to the viability of FM as a valuable tool for developing a high-level representation of inventory processes.

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Network Architecture as a Thinging Machine

Al-Fedaghi

Alnasser²

2018

2018 International Conference on Computational Science and Computational Intelligence (CSCI)

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The availability of interaction devices has raised interest in techniques to support the user interface (UI). A UI specification describes the functions that a system provides to its users by capturing the interface's details and includes possible actions through interaction elements. UI developers of interactive systems have to address multiple sources of heterogeneity, including end users' heterogeneity and variability of the context of use. This paper contributes to the notion of interactivity and interfacing by proposing a methodology for producing engineering-type diagrams of (abstract) machine processes that can specify uniform structure and behavior of systems through a synchronic order of states (stages): creation, release, transfer, receive, and process. As an example, the diagrammatic methodology is applied to conceptualizing space as a machine. The resulting depiction seems suitable for use in designing UIs in certain environments.

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Thinging Machine Applied to Information Leakage

Cited by 11 publications

References 8 publications

UML Sequence Diagram: An Alternative Model

UML Sequence Diagram: An Alternative Model

Conceptual Modeling of Inventory Management Processes as a Thinging Machine

Network Architecture as a Thinging Machine

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