ANSI INCITS ISO IEC 19763-1-2007 Information technology Metamodel framework for interoperability (MFI) Part 1 Reference model.pdf

1、ANSI/INCITS/ISO/IEC 19763-1-2007(ISO/IEC 19763-1:2007, IDT) Information technology Metamodel frameworkfor interoperability (MFI) Part 1: Reference modelANSI/INCITS/ISO/IEC 19763-1-2007(ISO/IEC 19763-1:2007IDT)ANSI/INCITS/ISO/IEC 19763-1-2007 ii ITIC 2007 All rights reserved PDF disclaimer This PDF f

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8、007 All rights reserved iii Contents Page Foreword .v Introduction vi 1 Scope 1 2 Conformance 1 3 Normative references .1 4 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms.1 4.1 Terms and definitions 1 4.2 Abbreviated terms 3 5 Metamodel framework architecture .4 5.1 Structure of ISO/IEC 19763 4 5.2 Object

9、ives of ISO/IEC 19763 5 5.3 Exclusions 5 5.4 Area of applicability .5 5.5 Metamodel framework architecture .7 5.6 Part 2: Core model 11 5.7 Part 3: Metamodel for ontology registration . 15 5.8 Part 4: Metamodel for model mapping 17 5.9 Part 5: Metamodel for model constructs . 18 Bibliography 19 Figu

10、res Figure 1 Overall structure of ISO/IEC 19763 4 Figure 2 Registry federation with metamodel framework 5 Figure 3 Metamodel framework to support sharing of models . 6 Figure 4 Registry federation by the metamodel frameworks . 7 Figure 5 Metamodel framework architecture 7 Figure 6 Metamodel framewor

11、k architecture and overall structure of meta hierarchy 9 Figure 7 Structure of the metamodel framework architecture 10 Figure 8 MFI registration concept . 11 Figure 9 Core model as a successor of both MOF and common facilities of MDR 11 Figure 10 Concept of the four quadrant registration scheme 12 F

12、igure 11 High level view of MFI core model 13 Figure 12 Scheme for model registration 13 Figure 13 Representation of concept . 14 ANSI/INCITS/ISO/IEC 19763-1-2007 iv ITIC 2007 All rights reserved Figure 14 Registration of metamodels as an upper model . 14 Figure 15 Registration of detailed model fol

13、lowing upper model 15 Figure 16 Relationship between ISO/IEC 19763-3 (MFI-3) and MDR (ISO/IEC 11179) . 16 Figure 17 Metamodel for ontology registration 17 Figure 18 Metamodel for model mapping 18 ANSI/INCITS/ISO/IEC 19763-1-2007 ITIC 2007 All rights reserved v Foreword ISO (the International Organiz

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18、the subject of patent rights. ISO and IEC shall not be held responsible for identifying any or all such patent rights. ISO/IEC 19763-1 was prepared by Joint Technical Committee ISO/IEC JTC 1, Information technology, Subcommittee SC 32, Data management and interchange. ISO/IEC 19763 consists of the f

19、ollowing parts, under the general title Information technology Metamodel framework for interoperability (MFI): Part 1: Reference model Part 2: Core model Part 3: Metamodel for ontology registration Part 4: Metamodel for model mapping ANSI/INCITS/ISO/IEC 19763-1-2007 vi ITIC 2007 All rights reserved

20、Introduction Due to the spread of E-business (EB) and E-commerce (EC) over the Internet, the effective exchange of business transactions and other related information across countries and cultures has become a prime concern for people both inside and outside the IT industry. To follow the current tr

21、ends of EB or EC, industrial consortia have engaged in the standardization of domain-specific objects including business process models and software components using common modeling facilities and interchange facilities such as UML and XML. They are very active in standardizing domain-specific busin

22、ess process models and standard modeling constructs such as data elements, entity profiles, and value domains. Following these trends, many standardization activities have focused on the facilities or schema that could enable the collaborations among different organizations, such as a) modeling faci

23、lities or modeling architectures such as UML or MDA; b) E-Business procedures and exchange formats such as ISO/IEC 15944, ebXML, XMI and SOAP; c) description facilities of information resources such as XML, RDF and WSDL; d) business process integration facilities such as BPEL and BPMN; e) registry f

24、acilities such as ISO/IEC 11179 (MDR), ebXML-R f) meta-modeling facilities such as MOF; g) ontology descriptive facilities such as OWL, DAML+OIL; h) facilities for logic such as CL, CG and DL. In addition to the above, other activities which focus on the contents to be treated by facilities have eme

25、rged as subjects of standardization. These include a) common models for various business domains, such as GCI, CPFR and HL7; b) modeling profiles or modeling patterns such as UML profile for EDOC and EAI; c) registry metamodels such as ebXML RIM and HL7 RIM; d) metamodels such as CWM for data wareho

26、use and ODM for ontology; e) metadata specifications, such as Dublin Core or ebXML Core Component; f) ontology models, such as SNOMED in healthcare, SUO in engineering and ISO/IEC 15944-4 E-Business economic and accounting ontology. These contents could be stored in registries in order to enable the

27、 effective sharing among different organizations. NOTE UML and OMG are trademarks of the Object Management Group. ANSI/INCITS/ISO/IEC 19763-1-2007 ITIC 2007 All rights reserved vii Many registries and repositories have been developed and implemented. However, due to differences in their metamodels o

28、r disharmony in their semantics, effective collaboration among organizations or communities has been difficult. New facilities are required that enable a harmonized federation among these registries. To satisfy these requirements, ISO/IEC 19763 provides the facilities for describing various types of

29、 registries or metamodels as a consolidated set of metamodel frameworks. This consolidated metamodel framework will provide the following features: a) metamodel registering mechanisms for enabling the federation of registries; b) description and registering mechanisms for various modeling constructs

30、 to facilitate their reuse; c) description and registering mechanisms for rules of model mapping and transformation to enable the harmonization of registry contents. This part of ISO/IEC 19763 describes the basic concept of metamodel framework which should be used in the development of other parts o

31、f ISO/IEC 19763. The issues and requirements to be considered in this development are also described. AMERICAN NATIONAL STANDARD ANSI/INCITS/ISO/IEC 19763-1-2007 ITIC 2007 All rights reserved 1 Information technology Metamodel framework for interoperability (MFI) Part 1: Reference model 1 Scope ISO/

32、IEC 19763 specifies a framework for metamodel interoperability. This part of ISO/IEC 19763 establishes general principles for the metamodel framework and gives guidelines for developments of other parts of ISO/IEC 19763. The multiple parts of ISO/IEC 19763 are to be used in the development of a harm

33、onized metamodel to facilitate the interoperation of existing registries or metamodels. 2 Conformance ISO/IEC 19763-1 specifies no conformance requirement. Other parts of ISO/IEC 19763 specify their own conformance requirements, as appropriate. 3 Normative references The following referenced documen

34、ts are indispensable for the application of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies. ISO/IEC 11179-1, Information technology Metadata registries (MDR) Part 1: Framewo

35、rk ISO/IEC 11179-3, Information technology Metadata registries (MDR) Part 3: Registry metamodel and basic attributes ISO/IEC 19502:2005, Information technology Meta Object Facility (MOF) 4 Terms, definitions and abbreviated terms 4.1 Terms and definitions 4.1.1 domain object object which represents

36、an entity or a process in a particular domain 4.1.2 domain model model which represents a particular domain ANSI/INCITS/ISO/IEC 19763-1-2007 2 ITIC 2007 All rights reserved 4.1.3 metadata data which describes other data NOTE See ISO/IEC 11179-1 and ISO/IEC 19502. 4.1.4 metamodel model which describe

37、s other models 4.1.5 metamodel construct model construct which is used in metamodels cf. model construct 4.1.6 meta-modeling facility modeling facility used for meta-modeling NOTE MOF is an example of a meta-modeling facility. cf. modeling facility 4.1.7 model representation of a universe of discour

38、se (UOD) using a normative modeling facility and modeling constructs 4.1.8 model construct unit of notation for modeling NOTE More generic term for modeling element. Sometimes the term is used to include metadata, code and object patterns rather than the notations of a particular modeling facility s

39、uch as UML. 4.1.9 modeling facility set of rules and notations for use when modeling NOTE UML is a typical example. 4.1.10 ontology description of a universe of discourse in a language that a computer can process 4.1.11 upper model model which restricts or guides other models NOTE See 4.1.3. 4.1.12

40、lower model model which is restricted or guided by another (upper) model ANSI/INCITS/ISO/IEC 19763-1-2007 ITIC 2007 All rights reserved 3 4.2 Abbreviated terms BPMN Business Process Modeling Notation BPEL Business Process Execution Language CWM Common Warehouse Metamodel GCI Global Commerce Initiati

41、ve CPFR Continuous Planning Forecasting and Replenishment CL Common Logic (see ISO/IEC 24707, to be published) ebXML electronic business XML (see ISO/TS 15000:2004) EAI Enterprise Application Integration EDOC Enterprise Distributed Object Computing (see bibliography item 12) HL7 Health Level 7 IDEF1

42、X Integrated DEFnition Method MDA Model Driven Architecture MOF Meta Object Facility (see ISO/IEC 19502:2005) MFI Metamodel Framework for Interoperability (i.e. ISO/IEC 19763-1) ODM Ontology Definition Metamodel OWL Web Ontology Language RDF Resource Description Framework SOAP Simple Object Access P

43、rotocol SUO Standard Upper Ontology SNOMED Systematized NOmenclature of MEDicine UDDI Universal Description, Discovery and Integration UML Unified Modeling Language UOD Universe of Discourse WSDL Web Service Description Language XMI XML Metadata Interchange (see ISO/IEC 19503:2005) XML eXtended Mark

44、up Language ANSI/INCITS/ISO/IEC 19763-1-2007 4 ITIC 2007 All rights reserved 5 Metamodel framework architecture This clause describes the structure of the ISO/IEC 19763 family of standards and the architecture of metamodel framework to be materialized with multiple parts of ISO/IEC 19763. 5.1 Struct

45、ure of ISO/IEC 19763 Figure 1 illustrates the overall structure of ISO/IEC 19763. However, this structure does not exclude the possibility of future extensions adding other useful metamodels, such as a metamodel for model constructs or the registration procedure. P a rt - 3:M e t a m ode l f or onto

46、l og y re gi s t ra t i onP a rt - 4:M e t a m ode l f or m o del m a pp i ngP a rt - 2 :C ore m odelP a r t - 5:M e t a m o d e l f o r m o d e l c o n s t r u c t sP a r t - 6:R e g is t r a t ion p r o c e d u r eP a rt - 1 : R e f e re nce m o delFigure 1 Overall structure of ISO/IEC 19763 Part

47、1: Reference model ISO/IEC 19763-1 specifies the concepts and an overall architecture of the metamodel framework standard to be applied in the development and the registration of the following individual metamodel frameworks. Part 2: Core model ISO/IEC 19763-2 specifies the core model of the metamod

48、el framework to be used in the development of metamodel framework standards. The core model provides a mechanism for metamodel description and normative constructs to be used in the development of metamodel framework standards. Part 3: Metamodel for ontology registration ISO/IEC 19763-3 specifies a

49、metamodel that provides a facility to register administrative information of ontologies. Part 4: Metamodel for model mapping ISO/IEC 19763-4 specifies a metamodel framework for describing any sort of mapping between objects such as metamodels, model elements or data elements. NOTE Any project for Part 5 or Part 6 is not yet initiated at the first stage of standard development. ANSI/INCITS/ISO/IEC 19763-1-2007 ITIC 2007 All rights reserved 5 5.2 Objectives of ISO/IEC 19763 The ob