Structural Modeling Project -- Transition Time -- 2017 -- Time To Think

[joseph simpson]

Team:

As a new year rolls around, 2017, it marks four (4) years of effort by Systems Concepts to explore, organize and communicate concepts and information associated with structural modeling.

In 2013 basic structural modeling (BSM) activities were explored and evaluated using the Sage Math tool from the University of Washington.

In 2014 focus shifted slightly to the exploration, organization and communication of concepts associated with the larger structural modeling arena. Structural integration modeling (SIM) was created by Systems Concepts to organize and communicate the material that aligns BSM and interpretive structural modeling (ISM.)

In 2015, a four (4) hour tutorial and three papers were created and presented at INCOSE 2015.  These papers focused on structural modeling, complexity reduction, abstract relation types (ART) and the augmented model-exchange isomorphism (AMEI.)

The past year, 2016, focused on the creation of structural modeling web applications and the continued expansion and communication of information associated with the logical and structural foundations of systems science and system engineering.

The volume and quality of material that was produced since 2013 has reached a point where a more structured engagement approach appears to be helpful.

All future video conference Read Ahead documents will now be created as System Concepts Technical Reports (SCTR) and published on Research Gate for everyone to access.  

The January SCTR will focus on organizing and presenting the material from the last two (2) or three (3) years of video conferences.

The February SCTR will focus on the utilization of the structural modeling web applications. Detailed instructions and examples will be provided.

The March SCTR will focus on any concept and/or implementation gaps that have been discovered during the team exploration of the last three or four years.

If anyone has a specific subject they would like to have analyzed, please let us know.  

If anyone would like to create and present additional Read Ahead material for the video conferences, please let us know.

Take care, be good to yourself and have fun,

Joe

--

Joe Simpson

“Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. 

Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. 

All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.”

George Bernard Shaw