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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 Agents, Action Processes, interactions , Behavioral Rules, Capabilityies, Outcome Events, Information Assets and Directives.
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

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Information Assets
The Information Assets domain describes top level concepts used to describe information.
- 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.
- Information Asset
  An Information Asset represents anything that can be communicated or memorized by an Agent 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 to operate during Behavior execution.
- Information Element
  An Information Element is an Element that represents some memorized information, either an Information Asset or an Information Asset Relationship, produced and/or consumed by Operating Assets.
- 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.
- 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).
- 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,
Information Packaging
- 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.
- Information Lexical Scope
  An Information Lexical Scope is a kind of Model Lexical Scope for Information Blocks.
Policies
The Policies domain defines Directives and Behavioral Rules that constrain enterprise structures (Agents structure) and Behaviors.
- Behavioral Rule
  A Behavioral Rule is a Directive intended to guide the Behavior of Agents, in compliance with enterprise Policy(ies) or regulations.
  Often, a Behavioral Rule is derived from a Policy. Behavioral Rules are enforced in Processes and Agents.
- 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.
- Policy
  A Policy is a Directive that is not directly enforceable whose purpose is to govern, guide or constrain the structure and Behavior of Agents in the enterprise.
  Policies provide the basis for rules and govern Behaviors carried out by Agents.
  Example of Policys are Regulation Articles, Business Policys or Architecture principles.
- 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).
- Policy Category
  A Policy Category is a classification of policies. In regulations, it represents sections of the law.
- 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).
Risk & Threat
- Adverse Event (Individual)
- 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,
System Operating Framework - SOF
The System Operating Framework - SOF models how an active system (Agent) operates/functions (Behavior) in its Operating Eco-System to produce Outcome Events that benefit (value) to other Agents or affect (have an effect upon) these Agents.
The SOF includes Agents, Action Processes, Interaction Processs, Policy(ies), Capability(ies), Outcome Events.
- Action Process
  An Action Process is a Behavior that describes a typical course of action intended to produce Outcomes, through the involvement of Agents 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 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 Processes from two distinct perspectives:
  a) A conceptual standpoint is provided by Value Streams.
  b) A concrete implementation standpoint is provided by Resource Action Processes.
- Agent
  An Agent is an Operating Asset which is able to participate actively to Behaviors, to produce and react to Outcome Events.
  1. Agents participate to Action Processes (Active Participant) and/or conduct Action Processes (Performed Process).
  2. Agents participate to Interaction Process (Scenario Participant) describing how they interact with other Agents.
  These actions and interactions define Agents boundaries described by Service Interfaces.
- Agent Environment
  An Agent Environment is an Operating Eco-System which defines the interactions (Service Channel) of an Agent with its partners (Partner Agent).
- Agent Life Cycle Event
  An Agent Life Cycle Event is a Temporal Bounding Type that defines the boundaries of an Agent's life cycle.
- Agent State
  An Agent State is a temporal slice type of an Agent 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.
- Behavior
  A Behavior is an Operating Asset that describes any action or reaction of an Agent to external or internal Behavioral Events. Behaviors include Action Processes (action), Interaction Processs (stories) or interactions (Service Interface).
  The course of actions of a Behavior is constrained ( Rule Enforcement) by the application of Behavioral Rules that define what is allowed and not allowed to do.
- Behavioral Event
  A Behavioral Event is a Temporal Bounding Type that establishes a temporal connection between Behaviors.
  A Behavioral Event connects a Predecessor Behavioral Event, to a Successor Behavioral Event.
- Capability
  A Capability is a functional Asset Property which refers to the ability to produce an Outcome Event.
  Capabilitys are fulfilled by Agents performing Action Processes and interacting with other Agents to produce Outcome Events.
- Environment Interaction Process
  An Environment Interaction Process is a story that describes how an Agent interacts with its partners (Partner Agent) to achieve Outcome Events in a specific Operating Eco-System (Agent 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.
- 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 (Agents and their Behaviors).
  Functional Assets include:
  1. Blocks defining results of Behaviors 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 Assets (Agent, Behavior, Service Interface).
  All Functional Assets are constrained by Policys and are exposed to Risk Types.
- Individual Agent
  An Individual Agent is an Individual Operating Asset that exists in space/time and that is able to participate actively to Action Processes and/or to conduct Action Processes.
- Individual Behavior
  An Individual Behavior is an actual instance of Behavior that is bounded in time.
- Individual Event
  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.
- 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.,
- Individual Mezzo Operating Asset
  A 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.
- Individual Micro Operating Asset
  A 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.
- 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).
- Individual Process
  Individual Process is the root instance of Action Process.
- Interaction Process
  An Interaction Process is a story (Behavior) that describes how the components of an Agent 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 Agents who participate to the story.
- Macro Operating Asset
  A type of Macro Operating Asset is an Operating Asset 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
- Mezzo Operating Asset
  A type of Mezzo Operating Asset at is the intermediate level between the foundational Micro Operating Assets and the overarching Macro 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.
- 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.
- Operating Asset
  An Operating Asset is a Functional Asset that describes the way Outcome Events are produced and consumed: how (Behaviors) and by whom (Agents).
  Operating Assets fulfill Capability(ies) (Fulfilled Capability).
  As any Functional Architecture Asset, Operating Assets are subject to Policy Conformances. In addition, they define Rule Enforcements to indicate how Policy Conformances are met.
- Operating Connection
  An Operating Connection is an Aggregate Connection that defines a behavioral connection between Operating Assets.
- Operating Eco-System
  An Operating Eco-System is an Operating Context in which an Agent exists or lives for a specific purpose, interacting with partners.
  For instance, the operating context of an enterprise includes its customers and suppliers.
- 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, ready to be used as an Input by a consumer Behavior.
- Service Interface
  A Service Interface is an interaction Behavior that describes a typical course of Flow Connections, coordinated by Behavioral Events and Outcome Events, and intended to produce Outcomes through the involvement of Agents.
- Systemic Levels
- Time Event
  A Time Event is a Behavioral Event that signifies the happening of a time change used to coordinate Behaviors.
- Whole Life Agent
  A Whole Life Agent is an Agent that is not the temporal slice type of any other Agent.
  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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