CONCEPT DOMAIN - Systemic Operating Ontology
| Description | Pattern Domain The Systemic Operating Ontology domain bundles sub-domains used to model how a system, including an enterprise, operates/functions in its environment. It includes Agent Types, Action Process Typees, interactions , Behavioral Rules, Capabilityies, Outcome Events, Information Assets and Directives. |
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| Dictionary | 
SysFEAT System Operating Framework |
| Parent Domain | 
SysFEAT Foundation Ontology Map |
| Domain dependencies | 
4D Composite Knowledge Graph
Architecture Assets
Architecture Packages
Compositionality
Information Assets
Information Packaging
Model Block Packaging
Policies
Reflexive Knowledge Graph
Risk & Threat
System Operating Framework - SOF |
DOMAIN HIERARCHY
DIAGRAM HIERARCHY
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Information Assets
The Information Assets domain describes top level concepts used to describe information.
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Data Category
A Data Category is a classification or division of Information Assets regarded as having particular shared characteristics.Examples:. Health data,. Financial data,. Contact data. -
Data Risk Type
A Data Risk Type is a Risk Type that refers to the accuracy, consistency, and reliability of data during its entire lifecycle.
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Information Asset
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. -
Information Domain
An Information Domain is a family of Information Entity(ies) which constitutes a unit a knowlege required by an Agent Type to operate during Behavior Type execution.
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Information Entity
An Information Entity is an Information Asset that is not fundamentally defined by its attributes, but rather by its continuity.An Information Entity evolves over time and has states.For instance a person is an Information Entity. Employe is a state of a person.An Information Entity has relationships to other Information Entitys and can have Information Propertys.
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Information Map
An Information Map is a Operating Property Map that is the top level grouping of Information Domains.Information Maps are used to provide navigationtop level entry points for Information Dictionary(ies) and to scope data management initiatives at the level of portfolio management ( Data Catalog), at the project level or at the Enterprise level (Enterprise Concept Map).
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Information Property
An Information Property is an Information Asset that represents a characteristic (Class of Property) of an Information Entity.An Information Property is fundamentally defined by its value. It doesn't evolve over time and is thereby immutable.Examples:. Address.. Customer Name.. Amounts,
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Information Packaging
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Information Block
An Information Block is an Asset Block involved in the description of information.Information Blocks range from Information Assets to Information Domains.They are packaged in Information Dictionary(ies) and managed in Data Catalogs. -
Information Dictionary
An Information Dictionary is a Model Package of Information Blocks used to describe an information architecture. This includes:1. Information Domain which groups Information Entitys by unit knowlege required by an Agent to operate during Behavior execution.2. Information Entity which constitute resusable unit of information that can change over time.3. Concept Property which constitue immutable characteristics of Information Entitys.Concrete implementations of Model Packages are Business Dictionary, Logical Data Dictionary, etc.
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Information Lexical Scope
An Information Lexical Scope is a kind of Model Lexical Scope for Information Blocks.
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Policies
The Policies domain defines Directives and Behavioral Rules that constrain enterprise structures (Agent Types structure) and Behavior Types.
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Behavioral Rule
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.
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Directive
A Directive is an authoritative declaration that indicates how Agents and their Behaviors should be (or should not be) in the enterprise.Specifically, a Directive defines, constrains or liberates some aspects of an Agent and its Behaviors. As such, Directives shall be considered as constraning Asset Propertys.Directives are intended to assert agent structures or to control or influence their Behaviors. Directives are stated in declarative form.
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Policy
A Policy is a Directive that is not directly enforceable whose purpose is to govern, guide or constrain the structure and Behavior Type of Agent Types in the enterprise.Policies provide the basis for rules and govern Behavior Types carried out by Agent Types.
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Policy Asset
A Policy Asset is any topic related to policy definitions.It ranges from the different kinds of Directives (Business Policy, Architecture principle, Behavioral Rule, etc.), to classification of policies (Policy Category) up to an entire set of policies (Policy Framework).
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Policy Category
A Policy Category is a classification of policies. In regulations, it represents sections of the law.
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Policy Framework
A Policy Framework is a set of Policy Assets, defined in laws published by governements or in policy frameworks defined by the enterprise.Both Business Policy Frameworks and Regulatory Frameworks are Policy Framework(ies).
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Risk & Threat
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Risk Type
A Risk Type is a distinct category or classification of risk based on its origin, nature, or potential impact. It helps in organizing and addressing different sources of uncertainty or potential harm that an individual, organization, or system might face. By categorizing risks into different types, entities can develop more targeted mitigation strategies and response plans.Common risk types include Operational Risk Type, Privacy Risk Type, and Compliance Risk Type, among others,
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System Operating Framework - SOF
The System Operating Framework - SOF models how an active system (Agent Type) operates/functions (Behavior Type) in its Operating Eco-System to produce Outcome Events that benefit (value) to other Agent Types or affect (have an effect upon) these Agent Types.
The SOF includes Agent Types, Action Process Typees, Interaction Process Types, Policy(ies), Capability(ies), Outcome Events.-
Action Process Type
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.
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Agent Life Cycle Event
An Agent Life Cycle Event is a Temporal Bounding Type that defines the boundaries of an Agent Type's life cycle.
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Agent State Type
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. -
Agent Type
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.
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Agent Type Environment
An Agent Type Environment is an Operating Eco-System which defines the interactions (Service Channel) of an Agent Type with its partners (Partner Agent).
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Behavior Type
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.
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Behavioral Event
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.
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Capability
A Capability is a functional Asset Property which refers to the ability to produce an Outcome Event.Capabilitys are fulfilled by Agent Types performing Action Process Typees and interacting with other Agent Types to produce Outcome Events.
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Environment Interaction Process Type
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.
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Functional Asset
Functional Assets encompasse all Asset Types used to describe why and how systems operate/function. This includes the Operating Eco-System where system operates to fulfill these purposes (Agent Types and their Behavior Types).Functional Assets include:1. Blocks defining results of Behavior Types of the enterprise or its sub-systems, that benefit to it internal or external customers : Outcome Event,2. Blocks used to describe information: Information Asset.3. Blocks used to describe how the enterprise operates: Operating Asset Types (Agent Type, Behavior Type, Service Interface).
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Individual Agent
An Individual Agent is an Individual Operating Asset that exists in space/time and that is able to participate actively to Action Process Typees and/or to conduct Action Process Typees.
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Individual Behavior
An Individual Behavior is an actual instance of Behavior Type that is bounded in time.
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Individual Event
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Individual Macro Operating Asset
An Individual Macro Operating Asset is an Individual Operating Asset which correspond to a large-scale enterprise assets. This level of analysis is concerned with understanding how large enterprise systems operate and how they interact with each other.Examples of macro-level systems:. Legal entities. The overall enterprise IT System. The internet. System of Systems. The Enterprise itself.,
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Individual Mezzo Operating Asset
An Individual Mezzo Operating Asset at is the intermediate level between the foundational Individual Mezzo Operating Assets and the overarching Individual Micro Operating Assets.At the mezzo level, aggregates or collections of Micro Operating Assets come together to form larger entities or sub-systems.Boundaries and signals at the mezzo level arise from the interactions and emergent behaviors of micro-level components, yet they also have their own distinct properties and rules not strictly reducible to the micro behaviors.Emergence at the mezzo level can be analyzed:1) Bottom-up: Looking at how interactions and behaviors at the micro level give rise to emergent phenomena, structures, or behaviors at the mezzo level.2)Top-down: Understanding how meso-level structures influence and constrain the behaviors and interactions of the micro-level components within them.
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Individual Micro Operating Asset
An Individual Micro Operating Asset represents the foundational level at which a system's structure and interactions can be analyzed without further subdivision into smaller constituent parts.Individual Micro Operating Assets set the stage for how higher-level behaviors emerge. As one moves up to higher hierarchical levels (mezzo, macro, etc.), the signals and boundaries at each of those levels are influenced by the foundational interactions set at the micro level.
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Individual Operating Asset
An Individual Operating Asset is a Functional Asset that describes the way Outcomes are produced and consumed: how (Individual Processes) and by whom (Individual Agents).
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Individual Process
Individual Process is the root instance of Action Process Type.
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Interaction Process Type
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. -
Macro Operating Asset Type
A type of Macro Operating Asset Type is an Operating Asset Type which corresponds to a large-scale enterprise assets. This level of analysis is concerned with understanding how large enterprise systems operate and how they interact with each other.Examples of macro-level systems:. Type of Legal entities. System of Systems
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Mezzo Operating Asset Type
A type of Mezzo Operating Asset Type at is the intermediate level between the foundational Micro Operating Assets and the overarching Macro Operating Asset Types.At the mezzo level, aggregates or collections of Micro Operating Assets come together to form larger entities or sub-systems.Boundaries and signals at the mezzo level arise from the interactions and emergent behaviors of micro-level components, yet they also have their own distinct properties and rules not strictly reducible to the micro behaviors.Emergence at the mezzo level can be analyzed:1) Bottom-up: Looking at how interactions and behaviors at the micro level give rise to emergent phenomena, structures, or behaviors at the mezzo level.2)Top-down: Understanding how meso-level structures influence and constrain the behaviors and interactions of the micro-level components within them.
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Micro Operating Asset
A type of Micro Operating Asset represents the foundational level at which a system's structure and interactions can be analyzed without further subdivision into smaller constituent parts.Micro Operating Assets set the stage for how higher-level behaviors emerge. As one moves up to higher hierarchical levels (mezzo, macro, etc.), the signals and boundaries at each of those levels are influenced by the foundational interactions set at the micro level.
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Operating Asset Type
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.
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Operating Connection
An Operating Connection is an Aggregate Connection that defines a behavioral connection between Operating Asset Types.
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Operating Eco-System
An Operating Eco-System is an Operating Context in which an Agent Type exists or lives for a specific purpose, interacting with partners.
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Outcome Event
An Outcome Event is a Behavioral Event that signals the Output of an Asset Type or state of Asset Type (Outcome) by a producer Behavior Type, ready to be used as an Input by a consumer Behavior Type.
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Service Interface
A Service Interface is an interaction Behavior Type that describes a typical course of Flow Connections, coordinated by Behavioral Events and Outcome Events, and intended to produce Outcomes through the involvement of Agent Types.
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Time Event
A Time Event is a Behavioral Event that signifies the happening of a time change used to coordinate Behavior Types.
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Whole Life Agent Type
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.
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