Work Systems Modeling Library
This work addresses the need for a unified modeling resource for system engineers and architects, but it appears incremental as it primarily organizes existing knowledge without introducing new methods.
The paper tackles the problem of diverse and fragmented modeling methods in work system engineering by introducing the Work Systems Modeling Library (WSML) to consolidate methodical knowledge for modeling work systems, though no concrete results or numbers are provided.
Modeling of work systems occurs for all sorts of reasons. Requirements need to be expressed. A pre-existing situation may need to be charted and analyzed. Early design decisions may be captured using architecture principles. Detailed design may be worked out. We all regard these activities as essentially being forms of modeling. In the work systems modeling library, we consider work system engineering from a modeling perspective. In the field of work system engineering, a whole plethora of modeling methods is available to system engineers and architects. Each of these methods can be used to model some (aspects) of a domain related to an existing and/or a planned work system. The aspects may refer to requirements, architecture, design, processing, data, etc, etc. In other words, these methodes are essentially all intended to model different aspects of work systems and/or their context. The aim of the work systems modeling library (WSML) is to bring together methodical knowledge concerning the modeling of work systems.