About Problemography

This site provides access to information system artifacts that are designed to aid the development of Churchmanian Knowledge Management Systems (CKMS).

IT Artifacts for CKMS development

These projects provide design models that help to clarify CKMS.

The first design model has been released. Check out the target process list.

Models

Every artifact on this site should have a schema. Here is a run-through of the models:

• The problemography.dtd defines the overall project and includes a list of IT Artifacts for CKMS development. This is the main entrance to the site. This instance has two types:
  
  
  • html: index_dev.php, which can be validated.
  • xml: index_dev.php?type=xml, which can be validated.
  
  
• Currently, there is one IT Artifact for CKMS development available, but other instances may be added. The first (proof-of-concept) IT Artifact for CKMS development is the target process list. The target process list is defined as follows:
  
  
  • The schema that defines the target process list is called target_processes.dtd. The target process list can be displayed using either of two types:
    
    
    • html: target process list, which can be validated.
    • xml: target process list, which can be validated.
  
  
• Each process on the target process list is defined with two schemas, as follows:
  
  
  • The first schema defines the metadata of a target process instance. This mostly describes how a definition can be specified. Information about the kernel theory and definition of the process are provided. Here is the metadata schema: target_process_meta.dtd. The target process list happens to have 50 instances. Here is an example of the metadata using the first process on the list. As before, there are two versions:
    
    
    • html: target process (id=1), which can be validated.
    • xml: target process (id=1), which can be validated.
    
    
  • The second schema defines the actual target process of a target process instance. This mostly describes the target process sentence, the pattern that is used to identify that process. The actual target process is specified using the Web Ontology Language (OWL). Here is the target process ontology: target_process.owl. Here is an example of the first process:
    
    
    • owl: target process (id=1) model in OWL.

Validation

The results of a study performed to validate the target processes include:

• matches

References

The following references were instrumental in the creation of the target process list.

• Singer (1914)
• Churchman (1971)
• Mason and Mitroff (1973)
• Courtney (2001)
• Richardson and Courtney (2004)

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