System Thinking for Formal Analysis of Domain Functioning in the Computation Independent Model

Erika Asnina, Janis Osis, Asnate Jansone

2012

Abstract

A gap between two domains, the system and its supporting software, is a well-known issue in software development. The analysis of the system is often considered as a redundant unwanted activity. However, software development driven by models will not be able to close the gap, if these models focus only on software and ignore the system, since software is a subsystem that helps to conduct some system’s activities. Thus, the system must be accurately analyzed before the software. For this purpose, this paper suggests a formal engineering model, Topological Functioning Model, and analysis of system functioning based on the system theory, algebraic topology, and classical logic.

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Asnina E., Osis J. and Jansone A. (2012). System Thinking for Formal Analysis of Domain Functioning in the Computation Independent Model . In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: MDA&MDSD, (ENASE 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-13-6, pages 232-240. DOI: 10.5220/0004090602320240


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@conference{mda&mdsd12,
author={Erika Asnina and Janis Osis and Asnate Jansone},
title={System Thinking for Formal Analysis of Domain Functioning in the Computation Independent Model},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: MDA&MDSD, (ENASE 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={232-240},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004090602320240},
isbn={978-989-8565-13-6},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: MDA&MDSD, (ENASE 2012)
TI - System Thinking for Formal Analysis of Domain Functioning in the Computation Independent Model
SN - 978-989-8565-13-6
AU - Asnina E.
AU - Osis J.
AU - Jansone A.
PY - 2012
SP - 232
EP - 240
DO - 10.5220/0004090602320240