On Fri, 26 Jan 1996, Maarten Sierhuis wrote:
> I have been trying to find relevant literature in which these problems are
> addressed. Does anybody have any good pointers to relevant literature? It
> would be great if it is in the field of problems with modeling systems,
> but relevant literature from other scientific fields is also very much
> appreciated.
Regarding jargon;
I saw some R&D work done in "something something Ontology" regarding
shared context on the KBSI web site - http://www.kbsi.com
John O'Neill in Australia is doing research in this area too.
Regarding teaching people how to model;
I think it would be great if modellers could both learn to model and
learn to choose between the alternative ways of modelling (I'm not sure
if I've accurately said what I want to say).
What I concluded after talking to someone about IDEF is that IDEF (or
any other modelling methodology) can only describe a certain level of
learning about a system.
A really good book that describes a process for modelling and learning
how to choose between alternatives in modelling would be "A Science of
Generic Design" by John Warfield. Chris Argyris' books would be great
too.
Andrew Moreno
-- Andrew Moreno <amoreno@broken.ranch.org>