Blog categorized as Modelling

Prompted by an old discussion on Reddit (link expired), kicked off by the question: "Please explain OOP to me in the language of a five-year old", I found myself musing on the reasons computing seems to stay stuck in the Middle Ages.

It is not for lack of great minds o...

This article introduces a complete, navigable and clickable representation of the ArchiMate metamodel standard. The model is created using UML. This is not because I wanted to translate ArchiMate into UML, but because UML should be well-suited to define a language such as ArchiMate in. And after all...

SmallSim is a business process simulation tool. It helps building complex business models, and then execute these models. With SmallSim you create executable models. The important differentiating characteristic of SmallSim is that SmallSim is not only executable, but it ...

Introducing LogSim

Note: LogSim is not to be confused with the British company Logistics Simulation Ltd., or with a log-making simulation program from HALCO Software.

LogSim is a process modelling and mining tool. It aims to help in creating executable business process models. LogSim is a business pro...

This is a typical artefact from an architect:

It consists of the typical modelling constructs found in those work products from architects: squares, blocks, rectangular things stacked on each other. For many people, even architects I fear, architecture is more or less synonymous with stacking blocks ...