Conceptual Modeling of Event-Based Systems

Quantitative models in informatics are well accepted and employed, whereas qualitative, conceptual, modeling is frequently considered with scepticism: huge effort is said to trade for poor benefit.

In this talk I discuss criteria for adequate conceptual models of event driven systems, and discuss what kind of benefit such models may yield.

In particular, I will argue that an adequate model supports not only understanding, abstraction, structure, behavior, and user interaction. In addition, a lot of nontrivial, deep insight can be gained, including invariants in a broad sense, with e.g. models in physics as a role model.