Section 1.2: What is the SES/MB framework?
The System Entity Structure/Model Base framework is a structured simple hierarchial framework that could help engineers to model software as solutions to problems.
The SES/MB has the capability to model both the problems, and the solutions to those problems into structural sets of entities and components.
Mapping between the problems domain and the solutions domain
Mapping between the problems domain and the solutions domain could be attained using the Functions.
Phases of SES/MB
The SES/MB is a two phaseform designing principle; it is broken down into an SES phase, and a model base phase.
(1) SES Phase: in which building the subsystems and entities is attained directly from the jME modules; the end result is to build a skeleton for the model.
(2) MB Phase: entails building a model base by grouping components under the entities and the subsystems, and creating relations among those components.
| Another phase is required to complete the documentation that is the functional phase. This phase models the behavior of the SES/MB Structure. We will use the Automata Theory, specifically, the naive finite-state-automaton with some adjustments to model the behavior of the components. |
| Modelling relations between elements, on each level of the SES/MB/Automata Hierarchy, could be attained using mapping functions. |
Formalization:
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SES Phase: Let, \(\Phi\) be a set of subsystems defining a larger system
S; such that, \(\Phi = \{\bigcup_{i=0}^{n} \phi: (M:(\phi)\rightarrow C_{\phi})\ \land (\phi = \bigcup_{i=0}^{n} E)\}\); where, \(E\) is an entity inside a subsystem \(\phi\), and \(M:(\phi)\rightarrow C_{\phi}\) is a mapping function that takes an element and maps it to a criteria. -
MB Phase combined with the Automata Phase: Therefore, \(E = \{\bigcup_{i=0}^{n} \epsilon: (M:(\epsilon)\rightarrow C_{\epsilon})\ \land (M_{\mu}:(\epsilon)\rightarrow M) \}\) which maps a component \(\epsilon\) to a particular set of machines
M; this establishes a link with the Automata Theory.
Examples
The Electrostatic-Drivers software is a WIP software that provides driver support for the Electrostatic-Sandbox SDK; the architecture utilizes the SES/MB/Automata Model to forge both the overall structure along with some of the detailed behavior together in all-in-one architecture.
Here is a simplified version: