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Design and Control Systemic Methodology (DCSYM)
DCSYM is a high-level design language, which enables effective synchronous and asynchronous multi-agent conversation and carries out exactly this task, the system description.
In DCSYM, the elements of a system are: systems (rectangular shapes) which can also be subsystems in a recursive manner, individuals (circles) and the relations (lines) between them. A relation represents communication or control between system elements (systems – systems – individuals – individuals). The quality of a communication/control relation differentiates according to Ken Bowen notation and can be on of the following types:
Communication
General Interaction or Influence
Purposeful Action
Potential Conflict
Distorted Communication
Distorted Purposeful Communication
DCSYM was introduced, developed and documented by Prof. Nikitas Assimakopoulos and Dr Ioannis Theocharopoulos.
DCSYM CASE TOOL is a recently developed software application whose purpose is to facilitate systems design according to DCSYM. It represents the whole problem design in a whiteboard or canvas and allows the user to draw systems, subsystems and individuals as well as communication and control links between them. It works like a drawing application in a way that is familiar to the average user but with some extra functionality to support operations related to systems design according only to DCSYM. It supports nesting systems at any level and performs basic, at the moment, calculations on the system, such as its cyclomatic complexity.
Since Systems Thinking is applicable to a lot of situations from ecological or social systems to organizational complexity and from strategic planning to developing quality management systems, the DCSYM methodology and the corresponding DCSYM CASE TOOL can be very helpful tools for both the Professional Systemic Analyst and anyone else who is involved in systems approach design.
Latest developments
Recent developments of DCSYM include:
The systemic environment
System interfaces or inputs and outputs as "variety attenuators" and "variety amplifiers."
Homeostatic connections
Viable System Model (VSM) notation
Business Process Model and Notation (BPMN) elements embedded in a systemic environment
DCSYM CASE TOOL implements all these features and is now renamed to
"DCSYM CASE TOOL (+BPMN)" also available in the Download Section.
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