Here is a guideline that I once wrote and that is often ignored (at least I have no fallacies about my ability to influence people :-)) ... Do not combine data definitions together into a single instantiable entity when an analysis of the managed environment...

In my previous post on designing a model, I discussed the need to view a problem space broadly and via specific scenarios. Since a model is supposed to serve as a conceptualization and abstraction of a problem space, we have to be careful not to be too...

Back to writing about modeling guidelines .... sorry about the long delay in my posts, but I got caught up in some standardization work that you will be hearing about in the next few weeks :-). I want to talk in this post about scenario-based modeling...