Authors:
Martin Podloucký
and
Robert Pergl
Affiliation:
Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Keyword(s):
BORM, ORD, Process Simulation, Process Analysis, Formal Foundations.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Agents
;
Artificial Intelligence
;
Bioinformatics
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Methodologies and Technologies
;
Model Driven Architectures and Engineering
;
Operational Research
;
Simulation
;
Software Engineering
;
Tools, Techniques and Methodologies for System Development
Abstract:
Business Object Relation Modelling (BORM) is a method for systems analysis and design that utilises an object oriented paradigm in combination with business process modelling. BORM’s Object Relation Diagram (ORD) is successfully used in practice for object behaviour analysis (OBA). We, however, identified several flaws in the diagram’s behaviour semantics. These occur mostly due to inconsistent and incomplete formal specification of the ORD behaviour. In this paper, we try to amend this gap by introducing so called input and output conditions, which we consider to be the most important first step towards a sound formal specification of the ORD.