An  Action Process Type is a Behavior Type that describes a typical course of action intended to produce Outcomes, through the involvement of Agent Types as Active Participants.

During its course of action, a process consumes or produces Functional Assets, including Information Assets.

1) It may memorize or access Information Assets from and to its Process Stores.

2) It may receive Functional Assets at its boundary: Outcome Consumptions.

3) It may signal the production of Functional Assets at its boundary: Outcome Productions.

The course of actions of a  Action Process Type is constrained ( Rule Enforcement) by the application of Behavioral Rules that define what is allowed and not allowed to do.

Within  SysFEAT, we can examine  Action Process Typees from two distinct perspectives:

a) A conceptual standpoint is provided by Value Streams.

b) A concrete implementation standpoint is provided by Resource Action Processes.

An  Agent Type is an Operating Asset Type which is able to participate actively to Behavior Types, to produce and react to Outcome Events.

1.  Agent Types participate to Action Process Typees (Active Participant) and/or conduct Action Process Typees (Performed Process).

2.  Agent Types participate to Interaction Process Type (Scenario Participant) describing how they interact with other  Agent Types.

These actions and interactions define  Agent Types boundaries described by Service Interfaces.

An  Asset Type is a Class of Individual which is used in the description of the enterprise and its systems, such as Action Process Typees, Department Types, Applications, Location Types, Period Types.

A  Behavior Type is an Operating Asset Type that describes any action or reaction of an Agent Type to external or internal Behavioral Events.  Behavior Types include Action Process Typees (action), Interaction Process Types (stories) or interactions (Service Interface).

The course of actions of a  Behavior Type is constrained ( Rule Enforcement) by the application of Behavioral Rules that define what is allowed and not allowed to do.

A  Behavioral Event is a Temporal Bounding Type that establishes a temporal connection between Behavior Types.

A  Behavioral Event connects a Predecessor  Behavioral Event, to a Successor  Behavioral Event.

A  Behavioral Rule is a Directive intended to guide the Behavior of Agent Types, in compliance with enterprise Policy(ies) or regulations.

Often, a  Behavioral Rule is derived from a Policy.  Behavioral Rules are enforced in Processes and Agent Types.

A  Capability is a functional  Asset Property which refers to the ability to produce an Outcome Event.

 Capabilitys are fulfilled by Agent Types performing Behavior Types including interactions with other Agent Types to produce Outcome Events.

An  Environment Interaction Process Type is a story that describes how an Agent Type interacts with its partners (Partner Agent) to achieve Outcome Events in a specific Operating Eco-System (Agent Type Environment).

This includes:

1) A course of events represented by Object Flows depicting the succession of intermediate Outcome Events towards the production and consumption of final Outcome Events.

2) Interacting partners who participate to the story in the considered Operating Eco-System.

An  Information Asset  represents anything that can be communicated or memorized by an Agent Type to produce and react to Outcome Events.

An  Information Asset is either an Information Entity or an  Information Property.
The difference lies in their relationship to change and to time. Information Entity(ies) can change over time and have a lifeycle while  Information Propertys are immutable characteristics.

An  Interaction Process Type is a story (Behavior Type) that describes how the components of an Agent Type interacts to produce and consume Outcome Events.
This includes:

1) A course of events represented by  Object Flows depicting the succesion of  intermediate Outcome Events towards the production of the final Outcome Events.

2) Interacting Agent Types who participate to the story.

An  Operating Asset Type is a Functional Asset that describes the way Outcome Events are produced and consumed: how (Behavior Types) and by whom (Agent Types).

 Operating Asset Types fulfill Capability(ies) (Fulfilled Capability).

As any  Functional Architecture Asset,  Operating Asset Types are subject to Policy Conformances. In addition, they define Rule Enforcements to indicate how Policy Conformances are met.

An  Agent State Type is a temporal slice type of an Agent Type related to its lifefcyle.
Examples:

. The lifecycle phases of a person, such as childhood, adulthood, eldery stage.

. The lifecyle phases of a hospital such as construction phase, operation and maintenance phase, renovation and expansion phase, decommissioning phase.

An  Individual Event is a Temporal Bounding that establishes a temporal connection between Individual Behaviors.

An  Individual Event connects a Previous Behavioral Event, to a Next Behavioral Event.

A  Period Type that is an arbitrary period of time.

 Period Type is used to define the period on which Time Events or Event Concepts can occur.

Examples:

- Year - the set of all years (..., -5000, ... 50, ..., 800, ..., 1000, ..., 1789, ..., 1946, ..., 2050, ...)

- 3.345 Nanoseconds- the set of all 3.345 Nanosecond periods.

- Quater - the set all all quaters : 1 quater of 1492, 3rd quater of 2056, ....

- 7000 Years- the set of all 7000 Year period.

A  Whole Life Agent Type is an Agent Type that is not the temporal slice type of any other Agent Type.

Examples:

. A type of building such as a skycraper.

. A type of person such as a philosopher.

. A type of facility such as a Hospital.