On domain modelling of the service system with its application to enterprise information systems |
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| Authors: | J.W. Wang H.F. Wang J.L. Ding K. Furuta T. Kanno W.H. Ip |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Complex Systems Research Center, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai, People’s Republic of China;2. Department of Systems Innovation, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan;3. Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, S7N 5A9, Canada;4. Institute of Systems Engineering, College of Information Science and Engineering, Northeastern University, Shenyang, People’s Republic of China;5. The State Key Laboratory of Synthetical Automation for Process Industry, Northeastern University, Shenyang, People’s Republic of China;6. Department of Systems Innovation, University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8656, Japan;7. Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, People’s Republic of China |
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| Abstract: | Information systems are a kind of service systems and they are throughout every element of a modern industrial and business system, much like blood in our body. Types of information systems are heterogeneous because of extreme uncertainty in changes in modern industrial and business systems. To effectively manage information systems, modelling of the work domain (or domain) of information systems is necessary. In this paper, a domain modelling framework for the service system is proposed and its application to the enterprise information system is outlined. The framework is defined based on application of a general domain modelling tool called function-context-behaviour-principle-state-structure (FCBPSS). The FCBPSS is based on a set of core concepts, namely: function, context, behaviour, principle, state and structure and system decomposition. Different from many other applications of FCBPSS in systems engineering, the FCBPSS is applied to both infrastructure and substance systems, which is novel and effective to modelling of service systems including enterprise information systems. It is to be noted that domain modelling of systems (e.g. enterprise information systems) is a key to integration of heterogeneous systems and to coping with unanticipated situations facing to systems. |
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| Keywords: | service system function-behaviour-structure enterprise information system domain modelling system decomposition |
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