Statecharts

I've been mapping a data access service - tracing how requests move through the system, where data gets duplicated, transformed, or lost as users progress. The conventional service design toolkit...

The statechart work on a data access service a few months ago was clarifying in ways I did not expect. Applying Harel's formalism to a real service - mapping its states, transitions, preconditions -...

This post was originally written in November 2024. It has since been revised to include cross-references to the companion Language, Frames, and Domain Understanding series - on case grammar,...

The previous posts have built up a layered picture: state spaces as the foundation for reasoning about systems; conceptual spaces as geometric vector spaces for representing meaning; graphs as the...