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Functional State Space and Domain Specific Modeling

According to the theory of Human-Centric Functional Modeling, defining a functional state space capable of providing a complete representation of the behavior of any given system in a given domain requires defining a minimal set of the most basic possible behaviors with which all other behaviors might be composed. The motivation to engage in this difficult exercise is that all open functional state spaces are hypothesized to be spanned by some combination of only four operations. This is predicted to be true for the functional state space that describes cognition, the functional state space that describes the physical universe, or any other open functional state space.

Domain specific modeling in general suffers from the brittleness that comes with each individual, business, government, or other entity defining their own ontology of behaviors, as opposed to defining a framework in which groups can reliably come to a consensus regarding the complete set of behaviors that any system is capable of. Functional state spaces for this reason provide a framework that can potentially be used to define not just one domain specific modeling language, but a framework that can be used to define a domain specific modeling language for each domain, and to define all possible domains and the relationships between them so that all behavior in all possible domains is represented.