Modelling information manufacturing systems

TL;DR

This paper introduces the IASDO model, a new framework for systematically modeling information manufacturing systems that captures dynamic processes and organizational aspects, improving over existing approaches.

Contribution

The paper presents the IASDO model and a framework for evaluating IMS meta-models, addressing limitations of current modeling approaches.

Findings

IASDO effectively models dynamic changes in IMS

Framework enables comparison of different IMS meta-models

IASDO improves organizational process representation

Abstract

The manufacture of an information product (IP) is akin to the manufacture of a physical product. Current approaches to model such information manufacturing systems (IMS), lack the ability to systematically represent the dynamic changes involved in manufacturing (or creating) an IP. They also have limitations to consistently include aspects of process and information management at an organizational level. This paper aims to address these limitations and presents a modelling approach, the IASDO model. Our work also represents a framework to evaluate the quality of the meta-models for IMS modelling which enable us to compare the IASDO model with current approaches.