Object-Process Methodology: A Holistic Systems Paradigm (Hardcover, 2002)

I Foundations of Object-Process Methodology.- 1 A Taste of OPM.- 1.1 The Wedding Example: A Sneak Preview of OPM.- 1.2 OPM Building Blocks: Objects, Processes, and States.- 1.3 Specialization and Inheritance.- 1.4 Aggregation and the Result Link.- Summary.- Problems.- 2 Object-Process Diagrams.- 2.1 Objects and Aggregation.- 2.2 Structural Relations and Structural Links.- 2.3 Processes and Procedural Links.- 2.4 System Diagram: The Top-Level OPD.- 2.5 Zooming into the Transaction Executing Process.- 2.6 The OPD Set.- 2.7 How to Read an OPD.- 2.7.1 Flow of Control.- 2.7.2 The Timeline in OPDs.- 2.7.3 Object States and Conditions.- 2.8 Completing the In-Zoomed Transaction Executing OPD.- 2.8.1 Logical XOR, AND, and OR Operators.- 2.8.2 The System Map.- 2.8.3 The Ultimate OPD.- 2.8.4 Zooming Out of Transaction Executing.- Summary.- Problems.- 3 Object-Process Language.- 3.1 Motivation for a Language.- 3.1.1 Real-Time Textual Feedback.- 3.1.2 Closing the Requirements-Implementation Gap.- 3.2 Structural Links and Structure Sentences.- 3.2.1 The First OPL Sentence.- 3.2.2 The First OPL Aggregation Sentence.- 3.3 The OPL Paragraph and the Graphics-Text Principle.- 3.3.1 Extending the OPL Paragraph.- 3.3.2 Enabling Sentences.- 3.3.3 Transformation Sentences.- 3.3.4 The SD Paragraph.- 3.4 More OPL Sentence Types.- 3.4.1 State Enumeration and Condition Sentences.- 3.4.2 AND, XOR, and OR Logical Operators.- 3.4.3 The SD1 Paragraph.- 3.4.4 In-Zooming and Out-Zooming Sentences.- 3.5 Boolean Objects and Determination Sentence.- 3.5.1 Boolean Condition Sentences.- 3.5.2 Compound Condition Sentences.- 3.5.3 State-Specified Generation Sentence.- 3.5.4 Converting a Dual-State Object into a Boolean Object.- 3.6 OPD-OPL Item Pairs and Synergy.- Summary.- Problems.- 4 Objects and Processes.- 4.1 Existence, Things, and Transformations.- 4.1.1 Objects.- 4.1.2 Transformation and Processes.- 4.2 Processes and Time.- 4.2.1 Cause and Effect.- 4.2.2 Syntactic vs. Semantic Sentence Analysis.- 4.2.3 The Process Test.- 4.3 Things.- 4.3.1 Things and Entities.- 4.3.2 The Perseverance of Things.- 4.3.3 The Essence of Things.- 4.3.4 Symbolizing Physical Things.- 4.3.5 The Origin of Things.- 4.3.6 The Complexity of Things.- 4.3.7 Thing Types.- 4.3.8 The Relativity of Object and Process Importance.- 4.3.9 Object and Process Naming.- 4.4 Informatical Objects.- 4.4.1 Telling Informatical and Physical Objects Apart.- 4.4.2 Systems and Information Systems.- 4.4.3 Translation of Informatical Objects.- 4.4.4 Toward "Pure" Informatical Objects.- 4.5 Object Identity.- 4.5.1 Change of State or Change of Identity?.- 4.5.2 Classes and Instances of Objects and Processes.- Summary.- Problems.- II Concepts of OPM Systems Modeling.- 5Dynamics.- 5.1 States.- 5.1.1 Object States and Status.- 5.1.2 Change and Effect.- 5.1.3 Explicit and Implicit Status Representations.- 5.1.4 The Input, Output, and Effect Links.- 5.1.5 State Suppression and the Effect Link.- 5.1.6 State Expression.- 5.2 Existence and Transformation.- 5.2.1 Result and Consumption Links.- 5.2.2 Procedural Links, Enablers, and Transformees.- 5.2.3 Enablers.- 5.2.4 Agents.- 5.2.5 Instruments.- 5.2.6 Enabling Links.- 5.2.7 Transformees.- 5.2.8 Odd Man Out: The Invocation Linkt.- 5.3 Object Roles with Respect to a Process.- 5.3.1 Enablers and Affectees.- 5.3.2 The Involved, Preprocess, and Postprocess Object Sets.- 5.3.3 Condition and Agent Condition Links.- 5.3.4 Operator, Operand, and Transform?.- Summary.- Problems.- 6Structure.- 6.1 Structural Relations.- 6.1.1 Structural Links.- 6.1.2 Structural Relation Directions.- 6.1.3 Unidirectional Structural Link.- 6.1.4 OPD Sentences.- 6.1.5 The Reciprocity of a Structural Relation.- 6.1.6 Null Tags and Their Default OPL Reserved Phrases.- 6.1.7 Structural Relations as Static Verbs.- 6.2 Participation Constraints and Cardinality.- 6.2.1 Participation Constraints.- 6.2.2 Parameterized Participation Constraints.- 6.2.3 Range Participation Constraints.- 6.2.4 Shorthand Not