Spatio-Temporal view on the Topological Functioning Model

TL;DR

This paper introduces the TopFunST framework, extending Topological Functioning Models to analyze spatial and temporal dependencies among system features, enhancing understanding of system functionality and interactions.

Contribution

The paper presents an extended version of TFM, called TopFunST, that incorporates spatial and temporal aspects into topological dependency analysis.

Findings

TopFunST effectively models spatial and temporal dependencies.

Enhanced analysis of feature interactions and system functioning cycles.

Provides a new approach to studying system properties in space and time.

Abstract

The spatial and temporal aspects of system properties are crucial for many types of systems. In this short paper, we present a TopFunST framework to analyse topological dependencies among features of the system, covering also spatial and temporal aspects. TopFunM is based on an extended version of the language of Topological Functioning Models (TFM). The TFM language describes the topological relationships among functional features of the system, which allows not only to analyse system functionality, as well as feature interactions and functioning cycle structures, but spatial and temporal aspects haven't been covered yet. This paper presents a solution to this problem.