The overview of NWI “Framework for Identification and Classification of Enterprise Objects”

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The overview of NWI“Framework for Identification and

Classification of Enterprise Objects”

Hajime Horiuchi

Masaharu Obayashi

(Japan)

ISO/IEC JTC1/SC32/WG2

Oct.15, 2000

Attachment of ISO/IEC JTC1 SC32 N587

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Introduction

This NWI proposal is intending to initiate a new standardization activity within ISO/IEC JTC1 SC32, which focuses on the common view to metadata and metamodels for categorizing and structuring enterprise business objects, extending ISO/IEC 11179 Specifications.

The enterprise objects which consist of both information elemetns and process elements, should be used, not only in the software development efforts of a particular organization, but also, in the interchanging and sharing them among different organizations by the means such as the Electronic Commerce (EC), Electronic Data Interchange (EDI).

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Purpose and JustificationThis proposal intends to establish a common reference model for the effective and efficient interchanging, sharing and reusing of various type of business objects standards, which could be developed by many standard groups, within ISO or outside of ISO and a lot of industrial consortia.

To achieve the purpose, following standardization activities should be initiated.

• Establishment of the consensus on the Metamodel Framework Architecture

• Change Proposal to IS11179-3 as a Normative Defining Scheme to cope with the NWI

• Stock taking current Modeling Facilities, Metamodeling Facilities, Metamodel Interchanging Facilities and establishment of the consensus on the use of them as normative.

• Development of the Identification &Classification Scheme

• Stock taking and Identification Common Modeling Construct

• Definition of the Metamodel Registering Procedure

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Official Organizations for Meta Model Standardization

SC32/WG2

OMG MDC

SC7 TC154

ebXML W3C IEEE

TC211 SC36

MOF/XMI

OIM

BSR GIS

XML Schema

Learning Tech

UML

Business Modeling

CEN UCC

ARTS

　 11179

TC184

STEP

CFER

VICS

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However,

11179

Metadata

Business Scenario

Meta Model

UML

Meta Model

MOF/XMI

Data Elements

FOV/BOV XML

XML Schema

Object Models

Modeling Facilities

SC32/WG2 SC32/WG1 OMG/ SC7 W3C

Every thing

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Basic Requirements for NWI

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Collaborations between Businesses

Due to the proliferation of Internet and E-business, following type of collaborations became indispensable to current vivid enterprises.

•exchanging information contents among different domains and different organizations across countries.

•effective evaluation mechanism of proprietary components in both software and information content, by asking for each components to declare their ingredients with specifying standard elements.

•evaluating business performance of the enterprise.

•effective investigation of business modeling and its change which might cause information system changes.

Those benefits are mainly brought by providing common bases for both business peoples and IT peoples.

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Is modeling facility standardization enough ?

　　 Fact

　Customer

View２

View１

　Model 　ModelConsistent?

　　　　　　　 Modeling Facility (UML)

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Harmonized standard development with the Normative Reference Model

Today, so many industrial standard groups, such as, OMG, ebXML, UN/CEFACT, OASYS, EAN, CPFR, UCC, Rosetta-net, CBOP, etc. are in charge of development of domain specific business models or protocols.

However, it is difficult to find any standards in ISO, which specify common basses that help consistent developments of standards for business modeling or interchanging in business domains.

It must be urgent to both ISO and consortia, to establish a common normative framework to keep harmonization in the enterprise business modeling and interchange specifications, which will enable the appropriate segregations and cooperation between ISO and consortia.

Although, UML is been discussed as ISO standards in ISO/IEC JTC1 SC7, there must be needed to standardize the common modeling constructs as the contents to be shared in enterprise business collaborations and business objects interchanging, not only for the software developments.

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What should be NeededIn the Markets:• An Unified Metamodel Framework which enables Interchange & Sharing

of the various type of enterprise business objects, in E-Commerce, E-Business, EDI, and the business collaborations, such as SCM, e-CRM, etc..

In the Vender Folks:• An Unified Registering Scheme which allows the those who want to

develop sharable enterprise business objects and those who want to access appropriate normative models, modeling constructs and objects in the developing easy to collaborate business systems.

In the Standardizations:• An Unified Metamodel Framework which establishes the harmonization

of the different views to the modeling and the Interchanging of the enterprise business object, which were proposed by the individual domains of the standardization

• A Normative Scheme which enables the appropriate locating and positioning of their standard development activities, which were been taken place within ISO or outside of ISO.

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Basic Requirements

Metamodel Registry

Identification & Classification Scheme

Exchanging & Sharing Enterprise Objects in EC, EDI, SCM, etc.

MetaModel Framework

Enterprise A

Enterprise B

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Map for Sharing Standards

Metamodel Registry


Exchanging & Sharing Enterprise Objects in EC, EDI, SCM, etc.

MetaModel Framework

Enterprise AEnterprise B

ISO standardsISO

standardsISO standardsISO

standards

UCC standardsKCSC

standards CBOP standardsOMG

standards

Standards

Standards

RosettaNet Standards

UN/Cefact Standards

EAN

ebXML

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What are needed

Message

Message

Message

Message

Business Process

Business Process

Business Process

Business Process

Business Process

Business Process

Standard Business Protocol



Standard Modeling Constructs

Standard Value Domain

Standard Modeling Facility

Standard Identification & Classification Scheme

Meta models


Standard Business Scenario

Standard Business Process



Enterprise A Enterprise B

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What are needed



Standard Modeling Facility

Standard Identification & Classification Scheme

Meta models

Standard mining

View



Data Warehouse

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Metamodel Framework

Common Domain Specific Modeling Constructs

Common Modeling View

Domain Model

Common Domain 　Independent 　Modeling Constructs


Metamodel Registry



A business domain

Extended 11179 Defining Schema

UML/MOF/XMI

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Registering Common Views & Constructs


Metamodel Registry


UML/MOF/XMI



Register

Common Domain Business Model Development Group

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Use of Metamodel Registry


Metamodel Registry


UML/MOF/XMI

Common Constructs

Enterprise Object Model (A)

Enterprise Object Model (B)

Easy to Collaborate

Inquire

Inquire

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An Idea ofMetamodel Framework

Architecture

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Sharable Objects

Software Components

Object Frameworks

Business Object Model

Modeling Patterns

Information Views

software

Business Scenario & Process Models

ModelsViews

Documents

Sharable Objects

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Software Components

Object Frameworks


Modeling Patterns

Information Views

software


ModelsViews

Documents

Sharable Objects

Contents Standardization by Consortia

TC154 　　　 UN/CEFACTXBRL　 RosettaNet

CPFR UCC EAN CEN

OMG CBOP

EJB Consortium

ActiveX

Establish a framework for consistent sharing of content standards

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For Consistent Development of Objects

Standard Data Elements

Common Business Objects

Standard Value & Value Domains

Normative Defining Scheme

(11179)

Normative Modeling Scheme

(UML)

Software Components

Object Frameworks


Modeling Patterns

Information Views

software


ModelsViews

Sharable Objects

Documents

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Modeling Facilities Sharing with MOF/XMI

Standard Defining Scheme

Standard Modeling Scheme

Metamodel Metamodel

MOF

XMI

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Sharing Standards with MOF/XMI

Value Domains 　Standards

Common Objects 　Standards

Data Domains 　Standards

Metadata specification XMI

MOF

Metadata specification

Metadata specification

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For Consistent Sharing of Objects


(11179)


(UML)




Normative Meta Model　 (MOF)

Normative XML Schema

Metamodels for Modeling Facilities

(UML Metamodel)

Metamodel Interchange Scheme (XMI)


Software Components

Object Frameworks


Modeling Patterns

Information Views

software


ModelsViews

Sharable Objects

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For More Efficient Sharing & Reusing






Normative Meta Model

Normative XML Schema

Metamodels for Modeling Facilities

Metamodel Interchange Scheme


Instances of the Sharable Objects & Models

Software Components

Object Frameworks


Modeling Patterns

Information Views

software


ModelsViews

Sharable Objects

Sharable Objects Registration Procedure

Registry

Registration

Metamodel Framework

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Proposed Standard Activities

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Metamodel Framework Development

UML

MOF

XMI

XML

11179

Enumeration of Value Domain Standards

Enumeration of Common Objects & Data Elements

Identification & Classification Scheme Development

Registration Procedure Development

Major Activities

Enumeration of Object Patterns & Templates

Modeling Constructs

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Standard Activities NWI

Framework for Identification & Classification Project

Metamodel Framework Architecture

Defining Facility & Modeling Facility 　　　　　　（１１１７９－３ , MOF, XMI ）

Identification & Classification scheme

Normative Modeling Constructs

Metamodel & Models Registration Procedure

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To share and interchange various type of enterprise business models, objects efficiently, and also, to locate them appropriately in the registry, there must be an unified view to identification & classification.

The Identification & Classification Scheme should be consisted multi-dimensional axis as follows:

Domain

Technology Type

Business Process Type

Model Purpose/Scope Abstraction Level

Viewpoint

Organization?

Region

Normative Modeling View & Constructs

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DP Technology

Domain　　 Technology FW

ORB 、 DB Access, Transaction Proc.

　 Domain Independent Elementary FW

BFOP , Atomic Object

　 Business Domain

Bu

siness T

echn

olo

gy

Do

main

E Business FW

Business Collaboration（ＳＣＭ .. ）

Retail / Services

Mnflg Public Service

Advanced FW

（ＣＲＭ，ＤＷ， SFＡ， .. ）

Financial

Mobile

Solution FW

Domain Specific BP FW

Order, Delivery, Accounting, Procurement, Personnel

Common Business Process Model

ＥＡＩ

(from CBOP BO Architecture)Example of Domain Classification

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Normative Constructs and Modeling& Defining Scheme

Modeling View

Domain Object Model

Modeling Construct

Object Pattern

Domain

Object Framework

Common Object

Domain Independent Object

UML Metamodel

Business Entity

Business Process

Business function

UML Profiles

Domain Independent Patterns

Business scenario

Atomic Object Value Domain

Defining Scheme

Modeling Scheme

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Defining Scheme extending IS11179

Current IS11179 Defining Scheme

Value Domain

Conceptual Domain

Data Element

Data Element Concept

Value Domain

Conceptual Domain

Element

Element Concept

Structuring Schema

Extended IS11179 as a Defining Scheme

Identification & Classification Schema

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Modeling Element Concept specified with Metamodel

Element Concept

Model Element Model Value Domain

Conceptual Domain

xxClass/Instance

Metamodel

Unfolded Pattern

Stereotyped Element

Template/Pattern

stereotype

Metamodel

xxRole

Classified by Domain, Viewpoint etc.

(based on ISO/IEC 11179-3rev)

specified

represented

provided

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Metamodel Layer following UML & MOF

EDOC Metamodel :

stereotype, tag value, Pattern

Enterprise Objects

Normative Constructs

MOF Meta-metamodel:

stereotype, tag value Meta metamodel

Model

CWM Metamodel :


UML Metamodel :

stereotype, tag value, template/pattern

XML DTDUML

XML DTDUML

XML DTDUML

MetaModel MetaModel

MetaModel

Model Model

Model

Domain model :


Domain model :


Domain model :

stereotype, tag value, template/pattern

Modeling Facility

specified

described withused

M3

M2

M1

M0

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Required 11179-3 Extension Work

• Extension for Composite Object Support– Data Element Concept

• Object, Stereotype, Pattern/Template

– Conceptual Domain• Specified with Metamodel

– Value Domain• stereotyped element, unfolded pattern

– Data Element• model element

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ISO/IEC　 11179　 Specification and Standardization of Data Elements

FOP (Function Object Pattern)

Domain SpecificProcess Objects

Domain SpecificProcess Objects

Domain SpecificPlug-inObjects

Domain SpecificPlug-inObjects

Domain Specific Entity Objects

Domain Specific Entity Objects

Atomic Object

Comm

on Instance (Dom

ain non-specific)

Actu

al E

nte

rprise

O

bje

cts

Actu

al

Patte

rns

DomainSpecificPatterns

DomainSpecificPatterns

BasicPatterns

BasicPatterns

LocationLocation Product

Code

Product Code

CountryCountry

CodeSets

CodeSets

Country Code

Country Code

Metmodel for Enterprise Object ModelFSV(FunctionalServiceView)

FSV(FunctionalServiceView)

BOV(BusinessOperational View)

BOV(BusinessOperational View)

FOF (Function Object Framework)

unfoldUML

UML

UMLProfile forSpecificPurpose(Metamodel)

UMLProfile forSpecificPurpose(Metamodel)

Modeling Facility

Modeling Constructs

Metamodel of Enterprise Business Object Metamodel of Enterprise Business Object

Element ConceptElement Concept

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Metamodel

BusinessObjectPattern

BusinessRulePattern

BusinessProcessPattern

BusinessEventPattern

BusinessEntityPattern

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BusinessComponentCollabobrationPatter

CompositeBusinessProcessPattern

BuseinessServicePortalPattern

SupplierEngineering Div.

CustomerEngineering Div.

Supplier Sales Div.

Customer Purchasing Div.

Customer

Engineering

Purchasing Sales

Supplier

Engineering

Contract Formation Step 1

Contract Formation:Composite Step

Design Component:Business Process

Component Family Specs:Business Document

Component Definition:Business Event

Request Quotation:Business Transaction Terms and Conditions:

Business Document

RFQ1:Information Exchange

RFQ2:Information Exchange

<Purchasing>:Performer Role

<Sales>:Performer Role

to

delivery

reflects

references

Results in

representation

<Customer Engineering>:Performer Role/Event Producer

<Supplier Engineering>:Performer Role/Event Consumer

lifecycle

fulfills

to

From

From

Component Master:Business Object

Component Family:Subscription

Required Component:Business Message

filters

Supply Chain:Business Rule

governs

Terms and Condibtions:Data Invariant

contains

Rule2:Post Step Condition

Rule1:Pre Step Condition

BusinessEvent

BusinessRule

BusinessProcess

requestedEvents

providedEvents/Seller

priceApprover

inventoryMgr

Price:ApprovedInventory:Reserved

Model

GeneralizableElement(from Core)

Namespace(from Core)

SpecificationCollaboration(from Collaborations)

Classifier(frbom Core)

multiplicity: Multiplicity

InstanceCollaboration(new)

Instance(from Common Behavior)

1..*

*

base

1 ownedElement

1..*

rbnstance

1..* *

1..*classifier

**

1

ModelElement(from Core)

ClassifierRole

instance

provide notation

using stereotype/pattern

unfold

modeling level mapping

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Example of Metamodel and Model

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11179

Meta Model Framework

Object Identification Classification　Schema

Long-term Road Map

Metadata Registration Schema

Guidelines(TR)

Meta Model Registry

UML

XML

Domain ModelDomain Model

Meta Model Registry Procedure

Standard Groups

SC32

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Project formation for NWI

Project Leader: Hajime Horiuchi (Japan)

Project Editor : Tim Bourne (UK)

Web Conference:

Conference Advisor : Sridhar Iyengar (OMG)

Conference Members: <Attached>

The overview of NWI “Framework for Identification and Classification of Enterprise Objects”

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