Work Systems Modeling Library

TL;DR

The paper introduces the Work Systems Modeling Library (WSML), a comprehensive collection of modeling methods aimed at supporting various activities in work system engineering.

Contribution

It consolidates diverse modeling methods into a unified library to enhance understanding and application in work system engineering.

Findings

Provides a structured overview of modeling methods

Facilitates better selection of modeling techniques

Supports comprehensive work system analysis

Abstract

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.