The Rapid Model Discovery Project

Project Outline

This project seeks to develop a toolkit to support rapid model discovery. The pain point that this project addresses is the difficulty in acquiring models irrespective of whether these process models, or UML design models, or enterprise models or rule models. This problem is a version of the old and well-recognized knowledge acquisition bottleneck. The toolkits that we seek to produce will be able to generate models in a mixed-initiative mode with analysts, by quickly developing first-cut (but relatively detailed) models in an automated fashion from a wide repertoire of enterprise artefacts. The artefacts in qustion could be documents, design models, process models, organization models, transaction logs and even, possibly, code. The tools in question would, in some sense, reverse engineer models in the desired notation from these artefacts. The models generated in an automated fashion would be presented to analysts, who would have the capability to interactively edit and modify these models. Analyst modification would serve as triggers for the tool to generate better, or more refined models by re-evaluating the available artefact repository.

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