UMCS
Overview
| Title: | UMCS
Unified Modelling of Complex Systems |
| Duration: | 2006-2008) |
Abstract
The overall aim of this project was to extend and integrate existing enterprise modelling methods and tools and apply them in complex organisational systems. The project proposal researched the industry need for modelling capability and the potential of various new and emerging modelling techniques to satisfy that need. Computer models of candidate configurations (and their emergent characters and behaviours) were created that represented key aspects of the realities of four case study manufacturing companies. To achieve sufficient realism and enable model reuse through the lifetime of organisations, model creation was:
- based on state of the art decomposition and integration principles, and
- the need to model characteristics of people at work in particularly innovative ways.
Unifying modelling concepts researched included:
- process decompositions into well-specified roles;
- dynamic producer unit configurations and role assignment
- work pattern dynamics, decompositions and (causal and temporal) flows.