TY  - BOOK
AU  - Knöpfel,Andreas
AU  - Gröne,Bernhard
AU  - Tabeling,Peter
TI  - Fundamental modeling concepts: effective communication of IT systems 
SN  - 047002710X 
U1  - 658.038011 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Chichester, Hoboken, NJ
PB  - J. Wiley & Sons
KW  - Management information systems
KW  - Computer architecture
KW  - System design
KW  - Methodology
N1  -                     
  Contents 

1 Introduction	1 

1.1 The need for communication 	
1.2 The FMC Idea
1.3 Outline of this book 

2 Compositional Structure
2.1 An Example: The travel agency 
2.2 Modeling the structure of a system
2.3 Agents accessing Storages 
2.4 Agents communicate via Channels 

3 Dynamic Structures 
3.1 Petri Nets: Basic Principles 
3.2 Conflicts and Conditions 
3.3 Basic Patterns 
3.4 Responsibilities and Scope Boundaries 


4 Value Structures and Mind Maps 
4.1 Entity Sets and Relationships .
4.2 Cardinalities ..
4.3 Predicates and Roles 
4.4 Partitions
4.5 Reification 

5 FMC Basics: Summary 

6 Reinforcing the Concepts 
6.1 The meta model: A mind map to FMF 
6.2 Operational versus control state 
6.3 Block Diagrams: Advanced Concepts 
6.4 Petri Nets: Advanced Concepts 
6.5 Non-hierarchical Transformations and Semantic Layers 

7 Towards Implementation Structures
7.1 System Structure versus Software Structure 
7.2 From Processor to Processes .
7.3 Distribution, Concurrency and Synchronization 
7.4 From FMC to Objects and Classes 
7.5 Conceptual Patterns versus Software Patterns 

8  Applying FMC in Your Daily Work 153 
8.1 Getting Comfortable with FMC .
8.2 Describing Existing Systems with FMC 
8.3 Using FMC in Construction 
8.4 Using FMC diagrams to support communication 
8.5 Guidelines for didactical modeling 
Etc.

9 Modeling and Visualization Guidelines	
9.1 Introduction 
9.2 Increasing the Readers' Perception.
9.3 Increasing Comprehension 
9.4 Secondary Notation, Patterns and Pitfalls

10 Relationship to Other Modeling Approaches
10.1 Comparing FMC with Structured Analysis 
10.2 FMC and the Unified Modeling Language 

11 A System of Server Patterns
11.2 A Pattern Language for Request Processing Servers 
11.4 Conclusion and Further Research 

; Includes bibliographical references (p. 323-329) and index: P 331-334
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