Questions tagged [modeling]

Modeling is the constructing and manipulating abstract (mathematical and/or graphical) representations of economic, engineering, manufacturing, social, and other types of situations and natural phenomenon, simulated with the help of a computer system.

Modeling is the construction and manipulation of abstract (mathematical and/or graphical) representations of economic, engineering, manufacturing, social, and other types of situations and natural phenomenon, simulated with the help of a computer system.

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Implementing Domain Driven Design

Is anyone using the techniques from Domain Driven Design? I've recently read the Eric Evans book of the same name (well, most of it!) and would be interested to hear from anyone who's implemented all/some of it in a project (particularly in…
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What is the best way to graphically represent page flow, as applicable to an action oriented web application?

What is the best way to graphically represent page flow, as applicable to an action oriented web application? What model do you use to represent page flows (page flow diagrams) encompassing pages (views), user actions on those views (events) and…
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Agent-based modeling resources

I would like to know what kind of toolkits, languages, libraries exist for agent-based modeling and what are the pros/cons of them? Some examples of what I am thinking of are Swarm, Repast, and MASS.
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Can an aggregates invariant include a rule based on information from elsewhere?

In DDD can an aggregates invariant include a rule based on information in a another aggregate? Now I don't think so, however this causes me a problem and I don't know how to solve it. I have an entity called Asset (equipment) which I'm modelling as…
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UML State Machines, Local vs. External Transition

As already asked in http://www.eclipse.org/forums/index.php/t/452409/ I am not sure I correctly got the meaning of local transition and I'd like to know whether I am using them with the right semantics or not Are these two state machines equal?
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XNA Game Studio 3D model editor suggestions

I want to create basic low-poly 3D models to use in XNA Game Studio games. What cheap/free tools do people recommend? And does anyone have any links or snippets of code that show how to load 3D models of some sort into XNA and then draw them on the…
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Best approach to what I think is a machine learning problem

I am wanting some expert guidance here on what the best approach is for me to solve a problem. I have investigated some machine learning, neural networks, and stuff like that. I've investigated weka, some sort of baesian solution.. R.. several…
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Simple simulations for Physics in Python?

I would like to know similar, concrete simulations, as the simulation about watering a field here. What is your favorite library/internet page for such simulations in Python? I know little Simpy, Numpy and Pygame. I would like to get examples about…
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Software-design & architecture: How to sync data from a directory-tree with a database

I´m twisting my head now for a while and don´t get to a final solution. So I hope I might find some exchange or help on how to solve this issue here on an architectural level. I´m currently facing the following scenario: I want to write a…
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Advantages and disadvantages of BPMN?

I was hoping you could tell me what the advantages and disadvantages of BPMN are in a developers perspective. I'm comparing UML with BPMN and a found a bunch of advantages and disadvanteges for UML but none for BPMN.
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Constraint Satisfaction Problem

I'm struggling my way through Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach in order to alleviate my natural stupidity. In trying to solve some of the exercises, I've come up against the "Who Owns the Zebra" problem, Exercise 5.13 in Chapter 5. This…
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Are there good tools for C# reverse engineering?

can you say me if there are good tools for reverse-engineering my C# applications. I need UML-class-diagrams of my written software and i don't want to draw these diagrams by myself. I've already tested StarUML but it didn't work because I used…
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What is the best way to model an organization using people, positions and teams when people have multiple jobs?

I have an interesting modeling problem. I am trying generate an org chart on a website (the backend is C# / SQL server and the frontend is javascript / google orgchart API, but the crux of the modeling problem is more generic so I didn't include…
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what is the differences between class and dataType

As i read through UML specification that: class has a set of attributes/operations and data type has a set of attributes/operations 1)with regards to attributes/operations of data type what this means? because i don't know how such a data type has…
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What is meant by open and closed layered architectures?

I know it probably sounds like very trivial question but I couldn't find any resources on the internet. Could you please tell me what are open and closed layered architectures and why open layered architecture is apparently more difficult to…
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