Typology and Modeling Profiles of AS-Class Process-Entity Interactions: Structures, Constraints, Phases and Evolution of Process Phases

Abstract

The situational nature, which is mostly resided in the procedures of conceptual data modeling today, does not allow either at the theoretical or practical levels to obtain functionally complete, and consistent conceptual and logical constructions for sufficiently capacious and isolated fragments of simulated systems. Moving from situational to pattern modeling is the one of the way to resolve this problem successfully. The maximum effect of using template schemes is achieved if the template component is selected correctly and all the relevant components of its life cycle are represented in a template. The pair "entity-generalized process" appears in the capacity of such component in the work. The choice of entities is quite obvious — any domain consists of entities. Adding processes as separate, self-sufficient objects and adhering them to entities along with concomitant objects setting locations and process subjects warrant a representation in the model of entities behavioral aspects involved to the generalized process. There is another positive effect from using "entity-process" pair — full coverage of all stages and interactions that accompany the generalized process. The work comprehensively and systematically examines interactions that occur in assembling composite objects of an arbitrary configuration. All significant stages for the vertical deployment of the generalized assembling process are allocated and investigated starting from the preprocess phases and "organization" phase and completing with the "implementation" phase. It is determined phase structures and is ascertained mechanisms providing a phase coherence. Standard constraints of As-processes have been considered for the obtained unified model schemes.