Fundamental Modeling Concepts

Foreword.
<p>Preface.</p>
<p>1 Introduction.</p>
<p>1.1 The need for communication.</p>
<p>1.2 The FMC Idea.</p>
<p>1.3 Outline of this book.</p>
<p>2 Compositional Structures.</p>
<p>2.1 An example: The travel agency.</p>
<p>2.2 Modeling the structure of a system.</p>
<p>2.3 Agents accessing storages.</p>
<p>2.4 Agents communicate via channels.</p>
<p>2.5 Summary.</p>
<p>2.6 Exercises.</p>
<p>3 Dynamic Structures.</p>
<p>3.1 Petrinets: Basic principles.</p>
<p>3.2 Conflicts and conditions.</p>
<p>3.3 Basic patterns.</p>
<p>3.4 Responsibilities and scope boundaries.</p>
<p>3.5 Summary.</p>
<p>3.6 Exercises.</p>
<p>4 Value Structures and Mind Maps.</p>
<p>4.1 Entity sets and relationships.</p>
<p>4.2 Cardinalities.</p>
<p>4.3 Predicates and roles.</p>
<p>4.4 Partitions.</p>
<p>4.5 Reification.</p>
<p>4.6 Summary.</p>
<p>4.7 Exercises.</p>
<p>5 FMC Basics: Summary.</p>
<p>6 Reinforcing the Concepts.</p>
<p>6.1 The meta model: A mind map to FMC.</p>
<p>6.2 Operational versus control state.</p>
<p>6.3 Block diagrams: Advanced concepts.</p>
<p>6.4 Petrinets: Advanced concepts.</p>
<p>6.5 Non–hierarchical transformations and semantic layers.</p>
<p>6.6 Exercises.</p>
<p>7 Towards Implementation Structures.</p>
<p>7.1 System structure versus software structure.</p>
<p>7.2 From Processor to processes.</p>
<p>7.3 Distribution, concurrency and synchronization.</p>
<p>7.4 From FMC to objects and classes.</p>
<p>7.5 Conceptual patterns versus software patterns.</p>
<p>8 Applying FMC in Your Daily Work.</p>
<p>8.1 Becoming comfortable with FMC.</p>
<p>8.2 Describing existing systems with FMC.</p>
<p>8.3 Using FMC in construction.</p>
<p>8.4 Using FMCdiagrams to support communication.</p>
<p>8.5 Guidelines for didactical modeling.</p>
<p>8.6 Cost and benefit of modeling.</p>
<p>9 Modeling and Visualization Guidelines.</p>
<p>9.1 Introduction.</p>
<p>9.2 Increasingt he reader s perception.</p>
<p>9.3 Increasing comprehension.</p>
<p>9.4 Secondary notation, patterns and pitfalls.</p>
<p>10 Relationship with Other Modeling Approaches.</p>
<p>10.1 Comparing FMC with Structured Analysis.</p>
<p>10.2 FMC and the Unified Modeling Language.</p>
<p>11 A System of Server Patterns 247</p>
<p>11.1 Applicationdomain.</p>
<p>11.2 A pattern language for request processing servers.</p>
<p>11.3 Example applications.</p>
<p>11.4 Conclusion and further research.</p>
<p>Epilogue.</p>
<p>A Solutions.</p>
<p>B Reference Sheets.</p>
<p>C Glossary.</p>
<p>References.</p>
<p>Index.</p>