Blog categorized as Modelling

This is the English translation of De Gespiegelde Wereld.

Software is the mirrored world. The outside world is the "normal" world we live in. More and more however we see that, with the growth of the internet and numerous software systems we embed ourselves in, and increasingly grow depende...

Models created using the modelling techniques we talk about on this site are extremely scalable. In fact we call them infinitely scalable. This corresponds to the classification in Martin Fowlers Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (The Addison-Wesley Signature Series) book of the Domain...

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The Time Inversion pattern is used to model dynamic collaborative behaviour between model components. To choose which responsibilities should be endowed upon a component, the modeller considers a goal that should be reached by one or more key components. This goal should be the end-goal. Reaso...

In a previous post (The Essence of OO) I talked about two patterns in modelling complex systems that I consider to be the most important, the active/passive pattern, and the time inversion pattern. In this post more on the first, and this time the pattern is described in a pattern template.

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Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland has been a source of inspiration for me and many others concerning a specific aspect of complex systems. This aspect is one that in my view is essential if we want to realise the quantum leap in complexity that we need: reflection.

Reflect...