Conceptual Entity

CLASS OF CLASS OF INDIVIDUAL - Conceptual Entity

Synonym

Business Object

Description

Abstract Concept

A Conceptual Entity is the representation of any tangible or intanglible resource or state of such resource that is of interest to understand the enterprises, its data, resources and activities.

A Conceptual Entity is either a Concept or a State Concept.

Example:

- "Person" is a Conceptual Entity of type Concept, Its temporal boundaries are is birth and its death (see Event Concept).

- "Employee" is a Conceptual Entity of type State Concept: it is a state of a "person". Its temporal boundaries are its hiring and its departure.

Structural Partition of Conceptual Entity: a Conceptual Entity is either a Concept

Functional Domain: Enterprise Glossary

The Enterprise Glossary domain comprises the Concepts, relationships and Terms used to build the glossary of an enterprise.

External references

DDD - Glossary - Entity

OMG - BACM - Business Object

OMG - SBVR - Concept

OMG - UAF - OperationalInformation

Russell Ackoff - Choice & Communication - Concept

Super Types

Information Entity (from partition: Conceptualization Levels of Information Entity)

Dictionary

SysFEAT Enterprise concepts

Conceptualization Levels

Conceptual

Lexical Scope

Architecture Container

Framework Mapping

SysFEAT Outcome Centric Model : Business Object
UAF - Security Views : OperationalInformation
UAF - Information : OperationalInformation
UAF - Operational Views : OperationalInformation

RELATIONSHIPS

Simple Graph Graph & Inheritance Table

Simple Graph

Composition: ➝ Classification: ➝ Specialization: ➝ Instance Of: --> Enumerated definition: ➝ Syntax: ➝

Graph & Hierarchy

Composition: ➝ Classification: ➝ Specialization: ➝ Instance Of: --> Enumerated definition: ➝ Syntax: ➝

Relationship Table

Relationship	Cardinality	Target Entity	Source Entity	Description
Specialized Conceptual Entity	[*..0]	Conceptual Entity	Conceptual Entity	Abstract Relationship
Concept Attribute	[*..0]	Concept Property	Conceptual Entity	Immutable characteristics of a Conceptual Entity.The default cardinality is [0..1] which means that Concept Property optional.
End Event	[*..0]	Event Concept	Conceptual Entity
Intermediate Event	[*..0]	Event Concept	Conceptual Entity
Start Event	[*..0]	Event Concept	Conceptual Entity
Concept Relation	[*..0]	Conceptual Entity	Conceptual Entity	Abstract Relationship Relationship between a source Conceptual Entity and a target Conceptual Entity.Relationsnhips can be between Concepts, between State Concepts or between Concepts and State Concepts.For instance, the Butterfly State Concept has a relationship with the Wing Concept.
Qualifying Information Property	[*..0]	Information Property	Information Entity	Abstract Relationship
Specialized Class of Bounded Individual	[*..0]	Class of Bounded Individual	Class of Bounded Individual	Abstract Relationship
End Type	[*..0]	Temporal Bounding Type	Class of Bounded Individual	Abstract Relationship
Start Type	[*..0]	Temporal Bounding Type	Class of Bounded Individual	Abstract Relationship
Temporal Ordering Type	[*..0]	Temporal Bounding Type	Class of Bounded Individual	Abstract Relationship
Aggregate Qualification	[*..0]	Property	Class of Bounded Individual	Abstract Relationship An Aggregate Qualification is a Qualifying Property that is refied as an Unbounded Member of a Class of Bounded Individual.Example:. The enforcement of a rule in a process (Rule Enforcement) is a refied Qualifying Property.
Realized Information Asset	[*..0]	Information Asset	Information Asset	Abstract Relationship
Data Categorization	[1..1]	Data Catagory	Information Asset	Classification of an Information Asset as belonging to a Data Catagory.
Data Categorization Scheme	[*..0]	Data Category Family	Information Asset	Classification of an Information Asset as belonging to a Data Category Family.
Data Risk	[*..0]	Data Risk Type	Information Asset	A Data Risk is Risk that refers to the potential for loss resulting from inadequate structure and usage of an Information Asset.
Qualifying Property	[*..0]	Property	Class of Individual	Abstract Relationship A SubTypeOfEntity from a Class of Bounded Individual to a Property that asserts all members of the Class of Bounded Individual have the Property.
Specialized Functional Asset	[*..0]	Functional Asset	Functional Asset	Abstract Relationship
Realized Functional Asset	[*..0]	Functional Asset	Functional Asset	Abstract Relationship A kind of specialization between an implementing Functional Asset and its abstract Realized Functional Asset.Realization relationships are the foundation to establish the mapping between Functional Assets that belong to different Conceptualization Levels.
Policy Conformance	[*..0]	Policy	Functional Asset	A Policy Conformance is the conformity requirement that applies a Functional Asset.
Asset Type Qualification	[*..0]	Asset Property	Asset Type	Abstract Relationship Qualification of an Asset Type by an Asset Property.
Applicable Condition Type	[*..0]	Condition Property Type	Asset Type	Set of Condition Property Types that can be applied to an Asset Type.
Classified by Bounded Individual MetaClass	[1..1]	Bounded Individual MetaClass	Asset Type
Class of Holonymy	[*..0]	First Order Class	First Order Class	Class of Holonymy is the powertype of Holonymy Relation.
Class of Meronymy	[*..0]	First Order Class	First Order Class	Class of Meronymy is the powerType of Meronymy Relation.
Reference Relation	[*..0]	Entity	Entity	Abstract Relationship A Reference Relation is a Relation that points at a target Entity which is not in the Lexical Scope of its source Entity.
Existential Independence	[*..0]	Entity	Entity	Abstract Relationship An Existential Independence relation is a Relation that specifies that the existence of the source Entity doesnt depend on the existence of its target Entity.The cardinality of set of targetted Entity is [0..*].
instance of Entity	[*..0]	Class of Entity	Entity	Abstract Relationship instance of Entity is a Typology relationship that relates an Entity to a Class of Entity, as instance of this Class of Entity.
Enumerated Definition	[1..1]	Concept	Conceptual Entity

LOGICAL FORMULATION

LOGIC-AGDA RDF

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SEMANTIC TAXONOMY

Sub-Types Super-Types

SUB-TYPES

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INTERNAL STRUCTURE

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