FAMILY OF CONCEPTS - Conceptualization Levels of Agent Type
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Agent TypeAn 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. |
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DISJOINT SUBTYPES of 'Agent Type'
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Conceptual Agent |
A Conceptual Agent is an abstract type of Agent Type that depicts a functional division of labor within an enterprise, influencing the formation of its business operating model. The concrete specializations of Conceptual Agent follow the systemic level pattern and come in the form of Operating Domain (a Macro Conceptual Agent) and Business Function (a Mezzo Conceptual Agent). |
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Resource Agent Type |
A Resource Agent Type is an entity type which instance belongs to the physical space, and comprises Human Agent Categorys, Hardware System Categorys, Software System Categorys and Natural Resource Categorys. Resource Agent Type is the supertype of all types of Agent Types that produce and react to Resource Outcome Events. This includes: 1) Business Agent Types which represent physical resources that produce and react to Business Outcome Events of the enterprise. 2) Technology Systems which represents enabling systems that produce and react to Technology Outcome Events. |