Carving Nature/Conceptual Models at Joints Using Thinging Machines

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2505.13656v1
• Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 18:55:56 GMT
• Title: Carving Nature/Conceptual Models at Joints Using Thinging Machines
• Authors: Sabah Al-Fedaghi,
• Abstract summary: The carving metaphor has been used to build a conceptual system of reality.<n>The central problem is how to carve events when building a TM model.<n>The paper contains new material about TM modeling and generalization.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: To handle the complexity of our world, the carving metaphor has been used to build a conceptual system of reality. In such an endeavor, we can choose various joints to carve at; that is, we can conceptualize various aspects of reality. Conceptual modeling concerns carving (e.g., categorization) and specifying a conceptual picture of a subject domain. This paper concerns with applying the notion of carving to conceptual models. Specifically, it concerns modeling based on the so-called thinging machine (TM). The central problem is how to carve events when building a TM model. In TMs, an event is defined as a thimac (thing/machine) with a time feature that infuses dynamism into the static thimac, called a region. A region is a diagrammatic description based on five generic actions: create, process, release, transfer, and receive. The paper contains new material about TM modeling and generalization and focuses on the carving problem to include structural carving and dynamic events. The study s results provide a foundation for establishing a new type of reality carving based on the TM model diagrams.

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