WSF4ADO: An ADOxx Deployment of the Work Systems Framework
摘要
The Work Systems Framework (WSF) gained recognition as a work-focused way to describe, decompose and drill-down enterprise systems. Several metamodels have emerged over the years to address a requirement for software tooling and machine interpretability as support for Work Systems analysis and design, i.e. alternatives to the traditional snapshot templates used in early adoption cases. The Work System conceptualization was itself gradually refined with taxonomies of its core notions, even formalized in a machine-readable knowledge graph to investigate possibilities of bridging to run-time operational data. As a natural step forward, this paper presents WSF4ADO, an ADOxx deployment of the WSF conceptualization offering a diagrammatic DSML (domain-specific modeling language) that captures the core work system concepts and the intended drill-down navigation experience, with scripted mechanisms to ease the design experience and element typing, and the ability to run semantic queries over semantic networks of inter-related work systems. Methodologically, the research follows the Design Science research paradigm and Agile Modeling Method Engineering as a modeling tool deployment framework.