IRMA-International.org: Creator of Knowledge
Information Resources Management Association
Advancing the Concepts & Practices of Information Resources Management in Modern Organizations

A Reflective Meta-Model of Object-Process Methodology: The System Modeling Building Blocks

A Reflective Meta-Model of Object-Process Methodology: The System Modeling Building Blocks
View Sample PDF
Author(s): Iris Reinhartz-Berger (University of Haifa, Israel)and Dov Dori (Israel Institute of Technology, Israel)
Copyright: 2005
Pages: 44
Source title: Business Systems Analysis with Ontologies
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Peter F. Green (University of Queensland, Australia)and Michael Rosemann (Queensland University of Technology, Australia)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-59140-339-5.ch006

Purchase

View A Reflective Meta-Model of Object-Process Methodology: The System Modeling Building Blocks on the publisher's website for pricing and purchasing information.

Abstract

In this chapter, we introduce a highly expressive, self-contained reflective meta-model of object-process methodology (OPM). OPM enables universal system modeling based on the notions of processes that transform objects. Extending the object-oriented approach, which views processes as residents of objects, OPM provides for the existence of stand-alone processes that can represent transformations in complex systems such as businesses, aircrafts or organisms. A system modeling and development methodology, which is a combination of a language for expressing the universal (or domain) ontology and an approach for developing systems that uses this language, can be expressed in OPM using objects, processes and links among them. Through the reflective OPM meta-model, we demonstrate the expressive power of OPM and its applicability as a universal tool for architecting systems that involve structure and dynamics in a highly, intertwined manner.

Related Content

Vincent Lennard Kraus. © 2023. 32 pages.
Tlou Maggie Masenya. © 2023. 16 pages.
Arzu Tufan, Gurkan Tuna. © 2023. 30 pages.
Wasswa Shafik. © 2023. 19 pages.
Calvin Nobles, Sharon L. Burton, Darrell Norman Burrell. © 2023. 23 pages.
Darrell Norman Burrell, Calvin Nobles, Austin Cusak, Laura Ann Jones, Jorja B. Wright, Horace C. Mingo, Jennifer Ferreras-Perez, Katrina Khanta, Philip Shen, Kevin Richardson. © 2023. 16 pages.
Jorja B. Wright, Darrell Norman Burrell. © 2023. 12 pages.
Body Bottom